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serial number 5159GT. The only one built with a 3 liter motor, later changed to a 275. A lot of differences between this one and the later "production" series.

Jeff

 

You mean 5149 GT, not 5159 GT (that would be a Lusso).

Marcel Massini

 

Lovely! Yes, this is the first 250 LM built, #5149, at the XLV Turin Motor Show held October 30 to November 20, 1963. Thank you for this great photo.
A very similar photo, same car, same location, but in color, can be found on page 91 of "Automobile Year", issue #11 of 1963-1964.

Marcel Massini

 

That Lusso and 250LM give me pangs of desire. Wow, the styling is just.... Strange that you can still be struck by that after seeing them so many times already.


Onno

 

The back of the photo has a stamp that is difficult to read,but the best I can decipher is: Comm R.Bertassini 1963 via Calandra,12-tel.88.23.40. I'm guessing it is the photographer's stamp.

I'm glad you feel that way.Those cars are excellent examples of true automotive "art".One of the things I try to instill in my students is the "beauty" part of automotive design.Granted ,it's in the eye of the beholder,but the Lusso & the 250 LM will ALWAYS be beautiful cars,IMHO.That set of photos was taken by General Motors France.

 

Yes, Bertazzini was the photographer.

Marcel Massini

 

Art Evans shot this....Palm Springs 1955

Phil Hill and The Chicken Farmer mixing it up, around the hay bales.

Art got them to sign it.
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Sorry, thick fingers.

Jeff

 

Not sure if this really qualifies as an "old photo" but it's a fun shot any way.
25 years ago: Some of Pierre Bardinon's cars at the spectacular Cartier special exhibit near Paris in May 1987.

Marcel Massini
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nice!

 

Here is 340 MM Spider Vignale 0284 AM being prepared at the Factory Assistenza Clienti at Viale Trento Trieste in Modena before the XXI Le Mans 24 hours in June 1953. Car was two-tone painted blue and white (bottom), note the new flat single windscreen and the flaps on the rear wheel arches. A few days later owner Thomas Lionel Howard Cole (Tom Cole) was killed in this car at the Maison Blanche bend in Le Mans (Sunday morning, 14th June 1953, at 6.14 am).

Marcel Massini
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Not sure this is permissible here but if the moderator allows it, just a heads up for a freshly emerged cache of original Geoffrey Goddard photographic prints - including assorted Ferrari and Ferrari-related shots - currently beginning to appear on eBay UK, under 'Motorsport Memorabilia'...375, 312B, 275LM, etc...

No replicas there...

DCN

 

Thanks, Doug. I'll have a look for sure. I'm an admirer of Geoff Goddard's work as well as yours.

Jack.

 

pics Paris Match, French magazine:

 

what a collection!
too sad, the full collection does not exist any longer!

 

I took this photo at Imola, Italy, in September 1983, during the legendary Ferrari Days.
Sorry, it is only 29 years old and thus probably doesn't really qualify for this thread.

COPYRIGHT MARCEL MASSINI
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..but each of the cars would qualify! great pic!

 

I´ll forgive you.

Is that 0485SA on the far left?

 

Correct.
Shown at that meeting by Roberto Crepaldi, son of Gastone Automobili S.a.s. of Milan. At the time it was still for sale by Crepaldi, they were asking 80 Million Lire. It then went to a major collection in Sparks, NV/USA.

Marcel Massini

 

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do you know this car ?

 

0342 M at Stead Air Force Base, Reno/NV, 1953.
A lovely 166 MM/53 Spider Vignale. Owned at the time by Ranald McDougall, of Hollywood/CA, a screenplay writer for Universal Studios and husband of actress Nanette Fabre. Since 2003 in a major collection in Tennessee. Last seen in September 2011 during the XXII Colorado Grand.

Marcel Massini

 

..Thank you very much Marcel ...About the Daytona Comp conversion 14 297 , seen above at the Bachelli and Villa officine , can you tell me more about this car ??

http://barchetta.mediacenter.studioline.net/-/14297-Ferrari-365-GTB-4-Daytona/?i=1605841&ft=search.14297+-+Ferrari+365+GTB%2f4+Daytona&rd=1964537&fd=1964537
Is this car ??

 

14297:
Original exterior color: Rosso Rubino 106-R-12.
Original interior color: Pelle Beige VM 3218 Connolly.
Chassis type 605.
Engine type 251.
Assembly sequence #498.
Scaglietti Body #n/a.
LHD.
U. S. Version.
19 May 1971 Factory completion date.
Standard road car delivered new to Bill Harrah's West Coast importership MCM Modern Classic Motors in Reno, NV/USA, for first owner Mr. Goddard. 2009 to 2011 converted into Group 4 specs by Bachelli & Villa in Bastiglia, near Modena, Italy.

Hope this helps.

Marcel Massini

 

Chinetti Motors 1978. Nice stuff in the background on the left.

Marcel Massini
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What is that to the left of the 3-posti? Doesn't look like a regular Dino.

Jeff