3 x 250 SWB's

At the Ferrari Owners Club GB Summer Garden Party and Concours at the weekend. I am sure Paul will have some better photos?
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Unfortunately not GTO's...just mundane RHD 250 GT swb Berlinettas...

 

250 SWBs, of course.

The rhd thing is interesting though. I don’t really understand why Italian car manufacturers built rhd cars. I’ve read that for alpine rallying it was preferred but I still don’t get it.

Anyone care to explain?

 

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Not a huge selection of vintage cars present, but here are some that were there: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login that

 

Not sure if this counts...
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Clockwise circuits...driver sits on the apex

 

Scaled from an original, quite amazing price point too!

 

Thanks Paul. Teach me to post when half asleep.

 

Thank you for sharing the pics. What is the name of the green color 250 SWB? It sort of looks like Aston Sage Green or Racing Green.

 

Well because they sold cars do RHD markets, for one....

 

Always preferred the SWB over GTO myself. Sublime little cars. Appreciate the photos…

 

Me too!

 

I believe it’s verde medio or something close to that.

 

3657 GT is Verde Tevere Metallizzato 16223 MM (Max Meyer, light metallic green, a Maserati color). Born like this.

Marcel Massini

 

Named after the river in Italy I was told by DK engineering.

 

Sanctioned by Ferrari, with Borrani wheels an electric motor which they think will do 50MPH and even has a Ferrari chassis numbered plate, only 93,000 euro! I think they have sold a lot already, if what I was told is true, one Ferrari dealer has sold 15, and they are not road legal !!
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They don't have to be road legal as long as your kid stays on your own huge property with your own country roads and your own laws.
Friend of mine has two kids and just bought two of these cars.

Marcel Massini

 

Do they at least come with a fake, high revving, V12 sound incorporated ?

 

Not yet
That's in 3 years time!

 

I never knew the LHD v RHD history until we were answering a pub quiz question. One potentially mythical reason for RHD was a hang over from the days of knights who wore their swords on their left hip and so always climbed on their horse from the left and because the majority were/ are right handed they lead the horse with the right hand. And supposedly the only reason every country other than the Brits took to LHD was to position themselves as independent of the great British empire, Italy itself had some provinces where right and others where left hand drive was legal until Mussolini ordered all vehicles to drive on the right and began the movement to LHD in 1923. Meanwhile other posters are correct, RHD suits clockwise racing but companies like Alfa Romeo and Lancia produced very expensive RHD road cars right through the mid 1950s (Mercedes-Benz through the 1930s) for their domestic markets.

At least one writer claims this was because when a Gentleman or his lady friend could drive up to a shop or hotel with an awning and alight from the right without getting wet. Who knows if true but a great story nonetheless. Perhaps a more accurate argument is that the wealthy continued to commission RHD cars as a sign of wealth and hence why it was only the ultra expensive Alfa Romeo and Lancia that continued to be available with either LHD and RHD in Italy, ditto Ferrari and Maserati.

 

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Thank you!