GREAT PHOTOS on this thread. I can't stop looking at them. Thanks to everyone for posting them!! Here is a link to photos I took of the German GP at the Ring in 1967 which Dan Gurney almost won. There is one photo of what I believe was Amon's Ferrari 312. Sorry I didn't take more photos of the fantastic cars and drivers. I was very lucky to have been at that race with my wife and to drive one lap of the entire track after the race. I am also fortunate to have been able to go back and drive the Ring a few more times with my two sons in recent years. Something everyone should do at least once in their life. http://www.tcnj.edu/~edelbach/ring67/ring-67.htm
More old Nurburgring and Spa photos from photocommunity.com The Phil Hill photo was in 1962, so he is maybe praying. He would do even more praying in 1963 at ATS. Tom Tanner/Scale Designs/Ferrari Expo 2009 model contest and art/photography display-Chicago April 25th 2009 Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Amazing wheel chocks in the third photo - courtesy of the Italian marble trade association ? Obviously no lawyers on that team.
More pix of the factory in 1971 Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Thank Tommy and Ed: more l'Officcina: july 2005: Colajani, to return Silverstone British GP: Reception Office of the Factory:
i remember younger when i ask to me: But who is Ed Niles the Man who gets so many Fcars?... Now it s possible to talk and have pictures like these one... Waiting patiently his book...and be sur it will be a best seller. i reserve mine already!
In a feeble attempt to keep this great thread going, here are some pix of Sal DiNatale's shop,S&A Italia Sport Cars (for Sal and Anna) on Sepulveda Blvd. in Van Nuys, Ca, from 1966. My 250 Cab and my ATS, among others. Marty Siedentop's 212 Vignale. Lyle Tanner's 0407GT Speciale. Marshall Lieb's 250MM. I was Sal's first Ferrari customer. These were the sorts of cars that we drove around the streeets of L.A. in the day. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Ed Niles, i love your pictures. Can you put more pictures , please? I would like reading a lot of things about your 250 gt cabriolet. One week ago i saw a 250 gt coupe in Cannes, Ilove this car. What are the differntes between 250 gt cabriolet and 250 gt coupe. Can you put more pictures of ferrari factory?
Ed, Wonderful photos!! Makes us yearn for the good old days. Please continue to share these wonderful pics with us. Steve
Great stuff Ed!! I think Sal sold the shop shortly after I moved from Chicago to Los Angeles, in August 1968. It was an Italian car repair shop up to about 7 years ago, but I can't remember the owner's name (Franco something?). The address was something like 7800 N Sepulveda Blvd. After he sold the shop, Sal spent a lot of time at Alfa Ricambi (which also no longer exists) in Glendale, Ca. As far as I am aware, Sal moved back to Italy
To answer the questions, Sal sold the shop (7819 Sepulveda, If I recall) to the guy who later promoted a car called the Cisenza or something like that; sorry, I've forgotten his name. I had purchased the cab (3093GT) through Goldoni in Rome, and had picked it up there and drove it all around Rome, the rest of Italy, through Spain and France for a month. A great car on the road. No problems except when I got to the border from France, entering Catalonia on the coast road. At the crossing, the Spaniards thought that the area of the gas tank (immediately behind the passenger area) was a secret compartment, and started tearing apart the upholstery! We finished the trip with the carpeting hanging down like a bloodhound's ears. (Or maybe they were just looking for a bribe?). Lots of fun driving a car like that in Italy, as every FIAT driver wants to pick a race, especially those with the hoods propped open hot-rod style. The cinquecentos actually were a better fit on most of the twisty roads, especially with our month's worth of luggage sliding around in the trunk! (And a wife hollering, "slow down"!). I drove the cab for a while before selling it to my friend Asa Clark, who also like to trade cars frequently. I often wonder what kind of life some of those great old cars had after they left my hands.
Damned good memory, Ed, but it's on the even side of the Blvd. That building (including the printers on the street) is 7812-7816. Great photos by the way! Erik, here's what it looks like today: Image Unavailable, Please Login
Very nice Ed. Did you buy the ATS new? I saw a real nice one up in Minnesota last year. Tom Tanner/Scale Designs/Ferrari Expo 2009-Chicago April 25th 2009
Maybe I was thinking of Claudio Zampolli who lived in both LA and Italy. I believe at one time he was a Ferrari dealer in Italy. The Cizetta Moroder V-16 was named after the pronunciation of the first letters of his first and last name (Chey-Zetta), and the finaccer, the record producer Giorgio Moroder. There is one of these in the Marconi Museum in Orange County, Ca. I think Jay Leno owns (owned?) one. 13 coupes and one roadster were built. I believe the roadster is currently for sale in Paris at FA Automobiles.
Wayne, you're mistaken. It was on the odd numbered side of Sepulveda. In LA the west side of the street is the odd numbers. See Ed's second photo. Western Bagel is still at 7814 Sepulveda.
Great shots, Ed! I take it Sal was Jim DiNatale's father? I had Alfa's in the 80's and used to frequent Jim's shop in VanNuys... just west of VN Blvd., a bit south of Victory, AFAIR. Saw one(maybe two) of the ALFA BAT cars there... Best, Tom
