If it was me I wouldn't change its color back Normally I would if course, but in this case I would want to remember my father and his ownership and as I had seen it when I was young. Let the next owner do the color change unless it's one of your children
WHICH "Bianco" do you mean? There were so many. Bianco 12435 MM? Bianco Avorio Italver 6005? Bianco Neon Italver 10019? Bianco La Toquet MM? Bianco Nitro? Bianco Saratoga Italver 18934? Bianco 21257 Italver? Bianco Saratoga Italver 21693? Bianco 2405? Bianco Salchi 173 PF? Bianco 19248 Lucidato Sintetico? Bianco Acrylico 25416 Italver? Bianco 28890 Acrylico Italver? Bianco 20414 A Italver? Bianco 29695 Acrylico Italver? All these "Bianco" were used on 250 GTE 2+2's. Marcel Massini
There is no "Chinese White" or "Bianco Cina". 12435 would then mean it was Bianco 12435 Max Meyer (Bianco 12435 MM). Factory records show Bianco Acrylico Salchi. Pininfarina used various paint suppliers (Italver, Glidden Salchi, Max Meyer, etc.). Marcel Massini
"Chinese White" shows up in a couple of places in the paperwork but none of the official Ferrari documents use the term. Here's a page from Tony Crook Motors who worked though Maranello Concessionaires to source the car for Sellers. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Bob, I was just catching up on unread The Wall Street Journals from when I was out of the country last week and saw your story......almost a year to the day from your last post! I assume you have a copy but if not I'll be glad to send you mine. Jack
You might be interested in this extract from Tony Crook's obituary from the Daily Telegraph: Crook’s garage business sold Simca, Abarth, Fiat and Aston Martin models. He also had the Bristol concession, becoming a director of its car division in 1960. He become an unofficial vehicle scout for Peter Sellers, whose buying habits were often augmented by peculiar, not to say unreasonable demands. “I remember him having this old Lagonda, which he reckoned wasn’t fast enough”, Crook recalled. “He phoned me from the States, telling me he’d seen a Scout armoured car; I was instructed to put a Scout engine into this Lagonda.” When Crook protested that the two-foot engine simply wouldn’t fit, the actor barked: “Do as you’re told!” On another occasion Sellers demanded the one-off Bristol 407 convertible that Crook was having made by Carrozzeria Viotti for his own daughter, Carol. One of the few convertibles that the company ever made, Crook had sketched out the design “on the back of an envelope”. As was often the case, however, Sellers soon returned it in exchange for another car, and in the years that followed Carol, or her friend Britt Ekland, would often be seen behind the wheel. As an aside, you can probably get a copy of the Maranello Concessionaires file (Orders on Ferrari, invoices etc) from Tony Willis, who now owns their archives.
Thanks John, and I do have the complete dossier from Tony Willis. So glad that they were able to save the build records and correspondence between Sellers, Hoare and Crook.
