Official Daytona Pics

Probably at the Concours of Elegance held at Hampton Court in September

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1938 Talbot Largo certainly has the 'cool' factor well covered!!! Amazing for a 1938 design. Thanks

 

The wheel in this Daytona doesn't have the typical two holes in each spoke of the steering wheel.
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Concours of Elegance at Hampton Court in September
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OVV 4 looks to be very nicely restored there.

Any pictures ever seen of another English Ferrari 1973 365 GTB/4 that wore the silver on black plate JM 103? Metallic green paint with a white (crema?) interior and contrasting dark stripes on the Daytona seats. Purchased new by Jack Maurice at Maranello Concessionaries.

 

I saw the car many years ago but regret I do not have any pictures. I wonder if is still green?!

 

I posted this picture on another thread some time ago and thought is might be of interest to Daytona fans.

The first Daytona seen in the UK. This car was driven by Col Ronnie Hoare, founder of Maranello Concessionaires, and is parked outside their Egham premises in early 1970. If I recall correctly (and it is 44 years!), Col Hoare had several early LHD examples of various models before RHD versions entered production. I think they all bore Italian export plates and were possibly loaned by the factory for his evaluation. NB the BRDC badge!

Member Mark Shannon believes this is #12905, one of two early LHD Blue Met Dino cars.
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Very interesting to see this plexi Daytona 'in period' picture. It has the full orange front lens rather than the split white/orange version seen in the picture below of s/n 12925 built shortly after 12905.
JM 103 has proven rather elusive; yours is the only sighting I have heard of. Perhaps the car was exported later to another RHD market and likely no longer green now either, as you suggest. Without a serial number it is difficult to say where it is now. Thank you John!
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JM 103 was on 16349 Charles, assuming the Number plate was not put on two different cars!

It was in Motor mag. June 16th 1973, I am not sure if I have a pic at home as I am at work now.
I have it down as Blue Chairo, with Beige.
It was first registered with the number LBB 32L.

 

Accoring to the 1987 Ferrari Owners Club register, Jack Maurice's car was a '365/GTB Comp' but the chassis number was listed as 'unknown'. My guess is that it was a road car converted to comp or semi comp spec later in its life. The registration was a personalised plate, previously attached to other cars he owned.

I'll have another dig through my (unsorted!) slides from those days.

John

 

Grant that is very useful knowing JM 103 was 16349 thank you for that.

Yes that issue of Motor magazine cost me 65 cents (12 1/2p) in 1973 and also featured the LeMans race report for that year. Color reproduction wasn't the best in those days and only a few pages of the magazine were printed in color. The rest are black and white on very cheap paper. The Daytona color was described as a subtle green and interestingly a metallic paint to. The Daytona already had 3,000 miles of use when given to the magazine for a test. It broke the old Aston Martin record for 0-60 with a time of 5.8 seconds.

 

Jack Maurice had several Ferrari models including a Monza and a 250 LM. The LM #6105 was originally the Earls Court show car that first went to Ron Fry that Jack Maurice later bought in 1968. The Comp Daytona would fall in line with those choices.
Unsorted slides sounds very promising!!!!

 

I should have said that he was shown as an ex Member in 1987, so it is quite possible that subsequently he had more than one Daytona and the plates were changed. I remember seeing the LM when it was later owned by Richard Colton.

 

I just have the article from the mag. at home, but I do have another owner called, G B Miles on my data base, sounds like a made up name though !!!

 

Not so, it seems! In the same 1987 register, the 'Late' G B Miles is listed. He had 2 Daytonas:

#13369 - registration number unknown
#16349 - registration LRB 32L (implying that it was a late '73/early '74 car)

John

 

Normal evolution, I used to own 6105...and now I am racing a Daytona competition....incidentally, Ron Fry part exchanged his old GTO to buy the LM,,,but we can't go backwards in the chain!!

 

All UK Daytonas had fully orange indicators including the Plexis cars. Why this one does though is strange. Perhaps the intention was to register it in the UK?

 

Assuming that you are referring to #12905, someone has pointed out that it also has round blinker repeaters on the wings - which is a UK feature. My guess is that it is effectively a UK spec car that just happens to LHD, as they had not completed a RHD at that stage.

 

Even back then there was competition and that was just to buy the car. As I recall David Clarke wanted to buy the GTO that Ron Fry got. If I have it correct that 250 GTO was also an Earls Court showcar.
In the past to be competitive you had to have the newest from Maranello so parting with the GTO for the LM was entirely understandable. So indeed no 'back tracking' on what you had. That only made sense once the collectors drove up the price of everything. Still the GTO must have represented the last chance to drive home in what you race. The LM owners for the most part were limited to track use with their cars it seems. Though David Clarke seemed to enjoy his Ferrari P2 on the back roads...

 

13369 I think was LHD, Sorry that all I know, I only keep info on RHD Daytona's as that's all I can keep up with.

 

Here is a nice blue one:-
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Various press pictures have been made for each new model. The front view of these two photographs taken at the factory has been seen before. However the rear view is new to me. It appears to show again the early Fly Yellow coupe that was used for the Pininfarina 365 GTB/4 poster seen earlier in post #737 here. Note the lack of a mirror on the driver's door. Also snow on the ground in the second picture but the passenger window is down! In the first picture there are no headrests for the driver and passenger but headrests have been added in the second picture...
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... and although it could be due to old exposure, distortion or reflection on the image itself, it appears the RH door is not a good color match and upper "break line" of the rocker panel below it seem to be missing some "sharpness".
Perhaps the car was brought back to factory for some (questionably performed) coachwork repairs ?

 

BTW, does any one have good quality close-up images of unrestored, still in original factory finishes, front coachwork of plexi-nose cars they care to share here or privately ? I'm looking for any angle of any area, top and bottom, forward of the hood (bonnet) and front wheel openings. Pictures of redone, repainted or repaired cars not useful. Researching various original details. Thanks in advance, Timo

 

Love them on wires.