Old photos of UK Ferrari

In 2013 5685 GT was in Hong Kong, now on its 4th engine and painted metallic silver grey.

Marcel Massini

 

I was referring to the Testarossa, not the Lusso!

I suspect it is just that between the original photograph, the scanning and then the rendering to screen that it isn't necessarily an totally accurate depiction of the colour. Or my records could be wrong...

I don't know about the proportion of Rosso Corsa cars. 95% seems like a lot.

Jonathan



Jonathan

 

Crikey. And it's had at least five or six different exterior colours, three(?) different interior trims... Is it still on the oversized wire rims?

Wonder what the least original Lusso in the world is...?

-Ed

 

It seems Colonel Hoare had a preference for dar blue! See my picture of his early Daytona toward the beginning of this thread. I also saw a later Daytona in Blue Sera or something similar, bearing his BRDC badge. I also seem to recall a 365 GT4 or 400i.

Of course, I should say Maranello demonstrators, driven by Hoare!

I was there on the day Mark took his photos and by then the old chap was struggling to get into the TR!

John

 

Related anecdote here about the blue Testa from someone who has unfortunately only posted on fchat just the once:
http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/143470115-post11.html

-Ed

 

While we're on the subject of the Colonel, did anyone ever correspond with this user via PM?

An intriguing first post, but nothing since. I'm sure I could track him down via other routes, but wondered if someone was already in touch.

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/142439429-post7.html

-Ed

 

Many years ago there was an article in the FOC magazine, 'Ferrari', about the train set and from what I recall, it was claimed to be the largest 'O' guage layout in the world. The engines were all built individually by model engineers, IIRC he offered it to the National Railway Museum (perhaps in his will) and they turned it down due to a lack of space! Presumably it was subsequently sold piecemeal.

I think David Clarke, founder of Graypaul, was also a model railway enthusiast of some note.

 

I still have the original rims for this car, I bought them as spares for my 5441 when I owned that. Anyone want to make an offer?

 

A fiver?

 

No Ed. You were absolutely correct. Further, in case my memory was failing me, I have confirmed this with Tony Willis. That blue TR is Chiaro Blue.

For those that are wondering, this is a different colour to the Chiaro Blue used on Daytona's, Dino's etc, but has the same name. I am sure the actual paint code will be different.

It is my opinion that Sera and Medio came a bit later.

Mark

 

Dear Jonathan

The colour in those pictures is pretty good. They are, like nearly everything I post here, scanned from my negatives. Sometimes subsequent colour balance correction is needed, but they normally come out pretty good.

Mark

 

Now you mention it John I remember him trying to get out of it too !!

Mark

 

275 GTB s/n 07397 pictured in MOTOR, w/e 4 Oct 1969. At that time, for sale with Camden Sports Cars (Camden Motors Ltd) of Leighton Buzzard for £2999.

-Ed
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From a few years ago.
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..does anyone know which car this is - photo from Supercar test day in the 80s/90s - been bugging me for a while
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What is the 206s with the strange rear body like a 512s #27in post 225 please?

Paul M

 

#024?

I'm sure someone will be along shortly to correct me if I'm wrong!

-Ed

 

024 when owned by Sir Anthony P. Bamford and raced by Willie Green.
That special rear section was fabricated following Alain De Cadenet's crash in practice for the Holts Trophy, Crystal Palace, London, on 3rd August 1968. The tail was repaired by Arch Motors and the rear section was done by Wilkinson's of Derby.
Bamford then purchased the car, sold it August 1978 to Harley Cluxton III.

Marcel Massini

 

A selection of 250GTOs and California Spiders, seen at Christie's Historic Festival 25/6 July 1992 at Silverstone
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Great Photos SAB42, thanks for posting.

 

That was a great event. Somewhere I have loads of pics of it but so much more difficult digging out old prints from a box or negs rather than searching for digital files on a computer. One day I'll get round to it

 

Here's a link to John Williams' photos at the event:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/125734368@N02/albums/72157645911742637/with/14844708686/

 

On this note, if there's anyone with a stack of old photos (probably 6"x4", I guess), who wants to scan them, I can recommend a product called the Doxie Flip. It's an iPad sized scanner that's perfect for quick but decent quality scans of old photos.

The colour fidelity might not be as spot on as a much pricier desktop unit, but it does the job - and it's fast. Ignore any marketing guff about wireless SD functionality (it's not supported any more) but the rest is all great.

I've used it to scan a few of my contacts' old photos (and I have a negative scanner, too), and they've come out really well so far.

-Ed

 

Hi all,

Does anyone know the story with s/n 15523? I've PM'd the owner, but wondered if other users can shed light on it.

An LHD car was sold with this chassis number in Gstaad in 2002. A note on the screen explained that it was recorded as a RHD UK delivery originally.

So was this car in Gstaad 15523? Or was it an impostor?

-Ed

 

This thread seems to have been a bit inactive.

I came across this photograph earlier of Cozy Powell with his 308 GTB.
Jonathan Tremlet recalls a previous post about this car and believes it be #19385.It would be great if the owner could confirm. Or if we could just turn the car to see the reg number.......
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