Sharknose Ferrari F1 anywhere?

IIRC the WDC winning cars from Surtees' era have all been destroyed and there is none left. But I believe Chris Rea has made a 100% replica, seen in the movie "La Passione" (very weird movie btw).

Is that replica ever seen in public at any kind of events (Goodwood perhaps) or in a museum?

 

Yep, heard the same story, and also that this replica was shown to the late Phil Hill, who was amazed by it; I even thought that it has been recently tested on the old Spa circuit (yes, the REAL one!) by the team of the belgian magazine "F1i", I think they made a feature about it about a year ago (they tested it early in the morning, so as not to disturb the traffic here, as the roads are now open to public circulation)
Don't know where it is now, though...

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There are a few threads in Vintage on the Sharknose reps.


This one is not the Chris Rea car but his car is discussed here.
http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=240853&highlight=sharknose

 

Absolutely, there are two different replicas; some info here:

http://www.sharknose.net/

 

Thanks guys for these links. That's awesome stuff I had no idea about.

Very cool!

 

Jim Stokes interview about the shark nose.
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one of surtees' cars is on display at barber motorsport museum in birmingham.

 

But that's the 1964 championship winner, not a "sharknose".

 

Is that the Italian movie with the reporter who comes to talk to Enzo...?

 

No, different movie, made before the one you're thinking of.

 

Purchased by a Dutch collector (JB) at a 200 Coys auction in London

http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/from-the-chris-rea-collection.-as-featured-in-th-1-c-qkqi5rp1na

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Here are my Pics from the Sharknose replica Ferrari 156 from Goodwood in 2011...

its in ecurie Franchorchamps yellow... which was driven by Giangarlo Baghetti who is still the only guy to win in his first F-1 race.
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Barber has an original 1964 Ferrari 158 8 cyl car, and a replica 158 painted in white and blue as raced by Surtees in the USA and Mexico ( where he won the WDC in 64)
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I have an Octane magazine which have a full presentation and ''history'' of this Sharknose 156 replica.

Amazing article.!

 

Thanks Sindo!

 

Surtees did not join the Scuderia until '63, two years after the Sharknose. He won the WDC in '64.

 

Yeah, sorry, brain fade on my side. I meant Hill.

 

I believe Chris Rea's Sharknose is not a perfect replica due to some of the original drawings having been lost over time, but it's as close as you can get to making one to the original design.



When Phill Hill came across the car at Goodwood one year he immediately knew it was a replica (From: http://www.grandprix.com/ft/ftdt033.html ) :

A few years back Hill was unexpectedly reacquainted with one at Goodwood. Deliberately set up to figure out the distinctive shape that lurked beneath a tarpaulin, his curiosity was piqued.

"Man, I figured all these had been cut up," he began as he investigated further, until his eyes told him the truth.

"It's a replica, right?" he asked, and was told that, yes, it was.

It had lovingly been created for rock star Chris Rea's rites of passage movie, La Passione. But how had Phil spotted the fake so quickly, given the amount of effort lavished upon making it as realistic as possible?

"That's easy," he chortled. "They never made them that well when they were new!"

 

Here is a new replica coming together in my shop.


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What cars does Chris Rea have??

 

Not very many now....mainly he's been racing a Lotus Six and (I think) a GT4 in club racing in recent years. He drove Piper's 250LM in some races in the '90s (and crashed it at Monza!) but he's not into Ferraris so much now.

The Sharknose was built from a few photos by a fellow-racer and Lotus Seven specialist, using a Fiat Dino 2.4L engine and Hewland gearbox; it was somewhat undersize, which is why the current owner has struggled to fit a genuine 120 degree engine into it. The side fuel-tanks in particular ae too slim.

The yellow Sharknose, on the other hand, is as good an exact copy as can humanly be built and has a genuine engine and gearbox; when you see it alongside British F1 cars of 1961-2 at Goodwood, the relative proportions look the same as in old photos of (for instance) Phil Hill battling with Jim Clark at Zandvoort in 1961.

Paul M