Official Ferrari 275 GTB picture thread

Yesterday at the Ferrari Owners Club of Great Britian National Meet...
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07407.

Marcel Massini

 

One classic next to a classic to be!

 

Say what you want about the present day Ferrari's, there is just something about those old ones that can best be explained, "They do not build them like that anymore."

 

Sonoma, October 2005...

 

The del Rio 4cam.

 

09831.

 

^ is the license plate light mounted in correct location?

 

The rear license plate light on a 275GTB or 275GTB/4 is typically mounted on the top of the rear bumper, with the lens surface angled toward the rear panel. All photos I have ever seen of the Del Rio 4-cam have shown the car without bumpers. I do not know if it was delivered this way, but the 1969 Automobile Quarterly article about this specific 4-cam shows the car without bumpers in period. Fair assumption that it was likely delivered in this configuration, which would necessitate an alternative light placement. The AQ article clearly shows the typical 275GTB rear plate light, simply rotated 90 degrees and fitted under the plate on the rear panel. Hence, I suspect it does not do the job too well.

 

While this picture may initially offend some here, I didn't realize the interesting little detail it captured until I had already taken it at the beach side, spectator parking off 17 Mile Drive when leaving P.B. last Sunday afternoon.

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Is that a red 275 GTB ten cars down on the far side?

 

what is the history of the Del Rio 4 cam?

 

Ordered new by Dan del Rio of NY, paint to sample and "list" of special requests. It was featured in an 8 page spread in Automobile Quarterly, I stared at the images for perhaps hundreds of hours. When camping in the infield for the 6 hour race at Watkins Glen, I crawled out of my pup tent in the morning to find it parked next to us--I thought that I was hallucinating! The owner was very kind, I have photos taken standing alongside it somewhere.

 

And here I thought (or expected) someone would just recite the VIN.
Paging Marcel.

 

Timo what engine is in your rod, period Chrysler(Dodge, Chrysler or de Soto) hemi?

 

‘52 DeSoto 276* with a WCFB (4-barrel).
50K+ miles since I “threw” it together 30+ years ago.
Just finished checking the compression** while enjoying a Perdomo 12 y.o. Vintage with Herradura Reposado.

* Just a little bigger/better(?) than 275.
** All good.

 

+1 love it! Is the car RHD?

 

No, optical illusion.

 

09831:
Check out "Automobile Quarterly", Volume VIII #2, fall 1969, for a detailed story titled "Wild Thing".
6 October 1966 ordered by Daniel G. W. Del Rio, Wall Street mogul and partner of Delafield & Delafield Bankers in New York, NY/USA. Del Rio got it February 1967. Had it till 1975.
Original exterior color: Verde Medio 106-G-29 (Del Rio Green Verde Medio 6700).
Original interior color: Orange VM 3104 Connolly (Arancia).

Marcel Massini

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In the AQ photos it had a Scuderia shield on the rear valance.

 

Also it had front mounted driving/fog lights when I saw it in 1976-77.

 

Interior retrim by O'Rourke Coach Trimmers of 275 GTB Competizione Clienti #07407.

 

Today.

Marcel Massini

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Period pictures of some Shortnose that was for sale in Connecticut around 2002.

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A better looking version than the 1967 style; most especially at the front.
Just my 2 cents.