Pics of vintages I find/see on the net.

Photos of the Loh Collection museum opening next month. Credits go to the "Nationales Automuseum The Loh Collection" website
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We already had a Loh thread I believe, this should be merged.

 

https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/threads/the-loh-collection.677058/
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1127GT.

 

probably the tour of Gipimotor in Belgium from yesterday .

 

What is the white coupe in the first photo, racing number one, circled?

Bob Z.

 

Aston Martin DB 4 GT Zagato

 

first pic belongs to Geoffrey Horton


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Posted by @ferraris.archived with unfortunately not photo credit attached. Cool pic nonetheless.


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Factory postcard.

 

Sensational 250 SWB Cal Spy #1883 GT, raced at the 1962 Targa Florio, coming up at RM Sotheby's in Monterey.
Second pic shows 1883 GT back in 1962.

Marcel Massini

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Wow.

 

Lovely car.

Any idea on the estimate yet?

 

9.5 M to 11.5 M $.

Marcel Massini

 

It seems low to me for a SWB with racing history !
But it is great to see it back to original specs, especially when looking at the pictures I took of it 12 years ago!
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That was PRE restoration. With tons of incorrect details such as covered headlights and retrofitted air vents in the fenders which 1883 GT did not have at birth.
At the time the car used to "belong" to a Swiss based finance acrobat who had it "leased" via Ferrari Financial Services.

Marcel Massini

 

It was yes. Do you know if it’s this « owner » who undertook this terrible restoration which made it look like a « generic » SWB California?

Also the first owner was Litex SpA, I don’t find anything about this company on the internet, what was their field? Thank you in advance !

 

1883 GT was already vandalized and abused while it was still in USA (1983, when "restored" and "improved" by S.D.), prior to coming to Switzerland (February 2002).
There's millions of things one can NOT find on the internet or anywhere else online.
To give you an idea, I do own many thousands of original documents (papers) and that stuff hasn't even been scanned in yet. It's in my vault only and the stuff can not be found anywhere else and certainly not on the internet.
Litex was in the textile industry and owned by Mario and Vittorio Azzario, domiciled at Via Alberto Nota 5 in Torino, and the car was for their president, Mr. Roberto Fusina.
By the time 1883 GT was raced at the 1962 Targa Florio it had already changed hands and was no longer with Litex, it was with a private person who had financed it with a credit granted by FIAT S.r.l., Finanziaria Immobili Automobili Torino, located at Via San Teresa 12 in Torino.

Marcel Massini

 

Thank you for this answer!
It’s true that you cannot find everything that happened to every car on the internet, and as a (less and less) young guy from France who is just passionate about car but also history it’s a bit frustrating!
About the FIAT financing could you send me a PM please ?

 

Feel free to PM/DM me.

Marcel Massini