From the same disc - they appear to be photos of paintings. Bob Z. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
If anyone has an extra Harold Clewsworth poster of the 500 Superfast, please PM me. The last photo, I think, is one of Oscar Davis' cars at Cavallino. Looks like The Breakers in the background.
Black car is 0237 EU. Pic taken approximately 1986. Now red and in the UK. Will be shown at Pebble Beach 16 August 2015. Marcel Massini
Hi, Marcel. I just found a notepad on the floppy disc. It describes the black car as "1952 Ferrari Tipo 225 Export Competition Coupe, owned by George L. Sterner, 1970" Does this correlate with your data? Bob Z.
It's a 212 Inter Coupé Vignale, chassis #0237 EU. Factory converted to 225. George Sterner of York, PA/USA, owned it in the late 1960s until 1972. In November 1972 original engine #0237 EU was removed by Stanley Nowak and installed in chassis #0149 E, and then engine# 0269 EU installed in chassis #0237 EU. Marcel Massini
The painting of the F1 car and drivers is by Chuck Queener (he signed it twice) and was used for an FOC magazine cover.
From the same floppy disc. I'm trying to contact the fellow who gave me the disc (around 20 years ago) with hopes that he may have more information and photos. Bob Z. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
340 MM Spider Vignale chassis #0284 AM, Tom Cole, 9 May 1953, BRDC Daily Express International Trophy, Silverstone, placed 2nd OA. 166 MM Barchetta Touring Chassis #0038 M, Alberto Ascari, 26 August 1950, Daily Express Trophy production car race at Silverstone, placed 1st OA. 250 TR59 Spider Fantuzzi Chassis #0766 TR, Phil Hill-Olivier Gendebien, Le Mans 24 hours, 20/21 June 1959, DNF. Marcel Massini
Don't forget that this is the same as the car that won the 1949 Le Mans 24hrs, and the Spa 24hrs. Upto this day this is still the smallest engined normally aspirated car to win the famous 24 hours race! Nathan
I know, Nathan - Luigi Chinetti Sr (from whom I bought my first Ferrari 37 years ago!) and Peter Mitchell-Thomson (Lord Selsdon) in #22 (my racing # in my little TR3 56 years ago) OMG, where have the years fled?
P.M.T( Lord Selsdon) only drove the car for one hour as required by the rules.Chinetti drove the other 23 hours in two stints. tonga's crew
And there is a photograph of the car being driven somewhere shortly after 4 PM.Sorry, I don't have a scanner but let me know your address an I will mail you a copy. tong's crew
"Bump" for this three-year old post: I watched the movie by chance yesterday; as said by Kare, the picture is indeed from "Ieri, oggi, domani" ("Yesterday, today and tomorrow") an Italian movie from 1963. The movie is three different short stories, the car is from the second one. Someone in the discussion on Imdb says that the car is 2871GT indeed, but would anyone here be able to confirm? There is a quick acceleration by the car from standing still, V12 music is nice; AND the lady in the passenger seat is none other than Sophia Loren... (the guy at left on the guardrail is, of course, Marcello Mastroianni) IMCDb.org: 1960 Ferrari 250 GT Spyder California [2871GT] in "Ieri, oggi, domani, 1963" Rgds
Yes it is 2871 GT. Italian license plates of Milan "MI 583693". I have the old paperwork to confirm all of that. The owner at the time was the original one and his name was Gianfranco Frattini. He kept this California until June 5, 1978, seventeen years. Marcel Massini
Hi, Yes! And to make it even more spoofy and sort of over-the-top, they not only drive off, but they come back very soon and do a drive-by in that shot with Sophia (or Anna of Milan being her character) waving her hand as good-bye! The whole thing seems very much improvised, as I have a hard time believing anyone, especially in that era could have written something like that into the script, except the fact that the lady hitch-hikes her way out of the embarrassing situation. IIRC the character behind the wheel of the Spider is called "Giorgio Ferrario" (!) and is a cameo role for the composer Armando Trovajoli! I am sure they had a lot of fun with the car they had managed to borrow from someone somewhere. (anybody know who?) Armando must have been over the hills with joy! According IMDB the movie did win an Oscar, and how many times do you have a chance to watch Sophia Loren perform a strip-tease? )) Definately worth seeing on the silver screen. Cheers, Pekka T. Fin.
Thank you very much, Marcel (oder sollte es "Danke Vielmals" sein?). I watched the movie by chance yesterday and I found that scene "so very italian", full of nostalgia... Rgds
Thanks Pekka! Yes, that small scene with the 250 GT California Spider "Passo Corto" was a nice surprise... Rgds
You're welcome. I had seen that movie long ago, but did not remember that scene either. It was Kare who dragged me to the movie theater in Helsinki that shows classics from real film on the big screen, run by the national film archive. Old movies are a lot of fun in many ways and best seen the way they were originally presented, a bit like classic cars are best enjoyed on old country roads! Cheers, Pekka T. Fin.
Saw this in a movie, "Goodbye Charlie" where Pat Boone is driving a Ferrari spider or cabriolet. I took a screen shot but it's really bad. Can someone identify the car? Bob Z. Image Unavailable, Please Login
This may have been posted before but what was the Ferrari used in the movie "Boy on a Dolphin"? Bob Z.
a 1953 375 America, 0339AL: IMCDb.org: 1953 Ferrari 375 America Coupe Pinin Farina [0339AL] in "Boy on a Dolphin, 1957" The car driven by Pat Boone in "Goodbye Charlie" looks like a 250 GT Cabriolet to me, but the picture is too blurred to be affirmative... Rgds