Old photos of UK Ferrari

Thanks Jonathan,RSF 6 is #06950,and was last MOT'd in March 2015 with...........14,929 miles.

Found this from December 1972.Any ideas which car KMF 851K is?
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Talking to a previous owner of #06950,he bought it from a chap who had "filled the engine with oil until it flowed out of the exhaust" and that how it was stored for the next 39 years!

 

I came across this advert along with other history that came with my car (which is the one in the photo).

It is interesting to note, in relation to fluctuation in values for Dinos, that the it was bought for £35,000 in January 1988 and sold for £110,000 in April 1989, after expenditure of just under £10,000 on restoration work - not a bad return! However, when it sold again in October 1994, it went for £37,000. The guy who bought it at that time spent over £50,000 on a two-year restoration and sold it three years later for £75,000.

It is also interesting to see the price differential between various Ferrari models and how they compare with today's market: a Daytona would have cost you three times as much as a Dino, but for only 25% more than the Daytona, you could have had a 250GT Lusso.
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Also interesting to note that the contact at the bottom of the advert (nearly 30 years ago!) is a chap called Mike Wheeler. I wonder what happened to him...

Jonathan

 

He's running Rardley Motors.

Marcel Massini

 

And also was judging the top class at the Ferrari owners club concours a few weeks ago, plus best car in show, with a very glamourous assistant, and I don't mean Keith B. !
I was honoured to be asked when one of the judges could not make it due to ill health.

 

KMF 852K is on s/n 03520... so perhaps a car within a dozen UK deliveries either side of that?

-Ed

 

Does anyone recognise this car? Pretty sure its a Maranello Conc car as its a Surrey number issued November 1971 to July 1972
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Unfortunately the reflection obscures the reg number XHR 3K,a Wiltshire number
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What's a "Lear jet automatic"?

 

This, I assume:
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Right! I suppose I should want one ... but I don't.

 

Agreed! I prefer the Radiomobile installation in my car:
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Just surfaced again and for sale in Derbyshire.

Ferrai 308GT4, 1973 For Sale on Car And Classic UK [C900770]

Interesting that it is claimed to be the 3rd 308 GT4 built - I always suspected it was a very early one.

 

Hard to tell from a B&W photo but it looks like the car could be Rosso Chiaro. Maranello supplied two cars in this colour that would fit the registration dates - 02530 (went to Australia in the 70's) and 02540.

 

I saw this car at the Silverstone Classic couple of weeks ago. You can tell that it was originally LHD as the engine cover strut is on the left side. RHD cars have the strut on the right.

 

Thanks for that, narrowed it down to two potentials

 

308 GTBi s/n 35867 circa 1981/82.

Pictured on front cover of vehicle hire pamphlet, available from £123 per day (~£450 in today's money).

-Ed
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Folks.... 5693GT - is this still on '1964 KO'?

Still registered with DVLA on this plate, but showing as NOT exported, last change of keeper (its ninth) in Sep 1995, and tax expired in May 1996.

Has this car just been squirreled away for the last 22 years? Does anyone know its whereabouts or condition?

-Ed

 

Here is a photo of it as 1964KO (on the right) at Maranellos. Looking at the 348 Spyder next to it, I reckon this must be 1994.

 

Thanks Robert. This was obviously not long before it changed to its most recent keeper - perhaps it was even sold through Egham. I'm sure those with a keener eye on the Lussos will know where it is. It could of course have been exported and just not notified to DVLA.

-Ed

 

Right - can anyone provide evidence that the car in this pic is NOT s/n 08659?

-Ed

 

s/n 08659, pictured in Motor Sport, August 1975. I haven't seen the original delivery information for this car, but I believe the claim that it was originally yellow is incorrect (I have Argento over Nero hide, as detailed by others elsewhere on Fchat).
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-Ed

 

I have to plead ignorance here. What s/n is this car? I mean, I know which car wore this plate at some point in the early 1960s, but...

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(source: Cars and Car Conversions, June 1966 - http://www.330gt.com/MagazineArticles/CarsAndCarConversions196606.htm)

-Ed

 

I found some old videos in the loft recently and one of them contained old video footage I took at the Silverstone Coys Historic festival back in 1992. Amazing collection of Ferraris that weekend including GTOs, LMs, Californias etc. Also Terry Hoyle with his 4 litre Lusso.
Caught some nice engine noises too.



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