Quizz: Last dual Ferrari ever built with original body

Hmm lots of ways to answer this depending on interpretation. For my 2p I will go with Daytona chassis 12547 was specifically ordered by Chinetti with alloy bodywork and was driven from the factory to Le Mans for the 1969 race (where it was crashed in qualifying and dns).

The later 15 Comp cars were more extensively modified and I'm not sure fit your criteria.

 

....15965...........

MM

 

365 GTB/4 15965

 

and you own it

 

What about 1982 512BB LM #44023 which as the last of these factory cars? The bodies on these factory made cars were totally different to the road Boxer. 15965 was commissioned to be rebodied by Michellotti by Coco Chinetti from a crashed road Daytona, not the Ferrari factory. Re BB LM, not sure about the "road use" criteria however.

 

Not a road car at all. The 512BB LM is a race car.

Best,

 

Thanks. In that case other contenders could be 275 GTB Competizione Speciale 06885 or 07185. 275 GTB/C and Daytona Competizione being too similar in shape to the road car.

 

Why not the 288GTO Evoluzione/F40?

 

The 288 GTO Evoluzione was designed for the track so not a dual role road and race car and never raced due to the scrapped Group B regulations. Other sources say the Evoluzione was the test bed for the F40. The F40 was a road car and the F40 LM/Competizione cars were race cars so singular role, not dual role. Besides the shape is too similar for them to meet the OP's criteria of an original body. Just my opinion.

 

Interesting - thank you.

 

Would the 348 / 355 Challenge cars also fit into this criteria??

 

Body shape same as the street car. I don't think the Challenge cars were street legal either so not dual role. Mind you, would a Daytona Competizione in full racing trim be street legal?

 

I guess a Daytona comp would of had to be street legal to complete in the Tour de France Automobile in the same way a WRC car is street legal today to do the transit sections between stages. The second of the S1 comp cars 14429 was delivered as a street car too its first owner.

 

Ken and Rosi Starbird used their Comp Daytona as their every day driver. I drove it back to L.A. from Monterey one year and it was perfectly driveable. Loud, but driveable.

 

If street legal means to be properly registered in the UK and pass MOT in order to drive on public roads, based on my experience it is possible. Would not assume it is the case in every country...and if you start the car at 7 am on Sunday morning,,,you may have problem with the neighbors unless you live in a farm in the Highlands...

 

I think 348 Challenge cars were road legal.

 

355 Challenge.

 

I called Ferrari North Europe, who were very helpful, having been referred to them by Maranello Concessionaires and they said the the 348 and 355 Challenge cars made by the factory were track only. Other sources say some Road cars were converted to Challenge spec with a factory supplied kit. Some Factory Challenge cars seem to have been converted to road use. Ferrari North Europe's telephone number is +441753878700 if you'd like to call them. They may have looked into my question further and might have a different answer to the one they gave me.

 

Classic!

 

Original exterior color: Giallo Fly 20-Y-191.
Original interior color: Nero VM 8500 Connolly.
Assembly sequence #797.
Scaglietti Body #860.
27 June 1972 factory completion date.
Delivered new to official dealer M. Gastone Crepaldi S.a.s., domiciled at Via San Marco 26 in Milan, Italy. Sold by Crepaldi to the first private owner Mr. Giancarlo Gagliardi.

Marcel Massini

 

Because both the 15965 conversion from Road car to Road/Racer and its design were not commissioned by Ferrari, it would be a bit of a stretch to call it a "Dual role Ferrari." It has a very interesting history with its Chinetti and Michellotti DNA and the engine from one of the 15 genuine Factory Daytona Competizione cars, but in becoming this "one off" and "racer" the Ferrari gene has been omitted in its creation. The design wasn't homologated.

It was withdrawn from the start at Le Mans 1975. I also read that due to a protest and the fact that there was no class for a one off bodied car to enter, 15965 was prevented from starting the race at Daytona 1978, so it never actually raced.

It could be said that the last "dual role" model Ferrari was the pre 1961 alloy 250 GT SWB Competizione. Even though they can and were (and are) used on the road, the 61 model 250 SWB Competizione cars became more racer than road car with the GTO, 275GTB/C and Daytona Comp following suit.

 

The engine from the Starbird's Daytona Comp 15965 ended up in the NART Michellotti Daytona 15685, owned by the OP.