The (one and only) '0846' Debate Thread

Thanks.
Seeing that after watching this weekend's race at Daytona I'm struck by just how ugly the cars have become.
Don't get me wrong the racing is still great but I just can't connect with the cars on the same visceral level.

 

I was working in the pits at Bridge Hampton when everyone got very quiet. I noticed people were stopping turning and staring at the sand dune that paralleled pit row.

Riding over the dune was a beautiful white wing. A white pickup towing a white car on an open trailer pulled into the pits. The driver had a cowboy hat. The car had a wing mounted on struts.

One by one we began to realise that we'd seen the future and everything sitting in the pits had become obsolete.

If Jim had used a regular gearbox it would have been game over.

 

Does it still exist?

 

That's Daytona. Bridge Hampton was in LI and it's now a golf course.

 

That's a great vision!

 

I can write the same and it's true.

 

Compare this photo with the recent Daytona lineup makes you
realize why these cars are so beloved, and the Dp's will be a
footnote in history.

Mark

P.S.: Two white cars in the photo! I missed the second the first time
I reviewed it!

 

0846 will be Parading the 2011 24 Hours of Daytona.

 

Need a driver?

Congratulations.

 

Hopefully I won't.

Best

 

Great story - thanks for the memory.

I got a chance to see the Chaparral racers at the Monterey Historics in 2005 - quite a sight having all those cars together.

>8^)
ER

 

Excuse me, I think we already speak, but I do not know or.
I know who is or 0856 and 0846.
and where and when these were prized pics

Oulton Parc 1980 Chris Amon
http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr299/Sport-GT-Monoplace/Ferrari%20Sport/1980-OultonParc-330P4-Amon-0856-1.jpg







Maranello






and ?



scuse my Inglish
Thank

 

All 0856 masquerading as 0846

 

I thought but I was not sure.

Thank

 

is it safe to say you know of just about every single photo of those cars?

 

I have seen most of them.

 

For the record more photo's of 0856 masquerading as 0846.
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It is 0856 so it isn't 0846. I know it sounds stupid.

In some way owner David A. Clarke gave her the Daytona winner outfit back in those days.
You can simply tell a 330 P4 from a 330 P3/4 by comparing the shutlines of the engine cover behind the doors. On the 330 P3/4 these are in line with the shutlines of the doors. It's a structural difference.

 

It wasn't David. It was Ferrari who painted 0856 in 0846's livery and sold her that way.

See the last pages of the 0846 thread.

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0856 at Prescott 1975

http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr299/Sport-GT-Monoplace/Ferrari%20Sport/1975-Prescott-330P4-DavidClarke-085.jpg

 

And one more for luck, maybe its a fresh one !
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New to me and interesting...

 

That's at Graypaul's

 

How about some more pics of the real deal.....
From my father's archives.
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