Ferraris at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, 23-26 June 2022

Full list of entrants here: https://www.goodwood.com/globalassets/.road--racing/event-coverage/fos/2022/6-june/entry-list/public-entry-list-18.6.pdf

Paul

 

The SP38 is to me one of Ferrari's most accomplished modern designs. It deserved to be a production car. Just like the Omologata deserved to be the 812 we never got.

 

It never made sense to me why an owner would specify a racing stripe on a 500 SF?

 

It was added while under ownership of Jan DeVroom, he was a racer and large benefactor to the N.A.R.T., whose colours were white and blue. It makes more sense but I agree, the car is a GT not a racer!

 

The perfect surname for an owner of a 12 cylinder Ferrari, thanks!

 

For an owner of several V12 Ferraris! Including at least one 410 Superamerica and the Tre Posti.

however he had a dark side, from what I remember he lived off an American heiress and ended up murdered in the 1970s

 

Yes, de Vroom, industrial designer John Cuccio and George Arents were involved with NART and had many very special Ferrari from LCM. Here is a link to a Vanity Fair article by Dominick Dunne about de Vroom's "benefactor" an heir to John D. Rockefeller:
https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1987/02/dunne198702

 

Final aside: both DeVroom and Cuccio had alloy 4cams. DeVroom's was s/n 10311. Cuccio's was s/n 10245, it was the car in the Car & Driver Italy vs. England $64,000 Road Test. It had a super low rear axle ratio(specified on the order), I believe it was 4.56:1

 

I read that VF article a long time ago. It’s very enlightening. That whole crew around DeVroom was sketchy. The late George Shelley had stories…..

Do you have a link for the C and D article?

Thanks.

 

Sorry Jack, I do not. I have a copy of the magazine somewhere? I almost memorized it, read it dozens of times.

 

September, 1968, issue in case you have them organized chronologically….

 

Huh?

 

What color is the TDF? never seen it.

 

Hey Marcel - I had no idea you too were at Gooders! I will try to post some Festival pix here, but with my log-burning interweb 'skills' don't hold your breath...

In any case, last Monday evening, post-Goodwood, somewhere in Hampshire, England, around dusk...

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Real 250GTO completing this memorable line-up of genuine-engined, otherwise replica 'Sharknoses' and Dino 246SP - so reminiscent of the Maranello factory yard press conference, 1962. The scene was so evocative I thought it worth sharing.

If only I could work out picture attachment rather better I would post some FoS Ferrari pix. Just tried it and some appeared postage stamp-sized, others big - confusing.

DCN

 

Well, the ones you posted are beautiful and appreciated. And, yes, they are evocative of those factory publicity photos that some of us remember seeing in Sports Car Graphic about three months after the fact.

Thanks!

 

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DCN

 

Great stuff, Doug. Thanks for posting these photos.

 

Your photo attachment skills are improving! I wish it were as easy on TNF. I’ve never been able to post pictures there.

 

The front clip of the 500 Superfast was used for the 1966-68 330 GTC.

 

Jason Wright's remarkable 1961 Dino 246SP replica - carefully chassis-serialled '0790R' - was completed by British specialist Dan Setford's little team on the Thursday of the Festival of Speed and became a major focus of admiring attention. Using original 2.4-litre 4-cam V6 engine and transaxle it joins Jason's 65-degree and 120-degree V6-engined 'Sharknose' F1 cars as a gorgeously well-detailed and faithful tribute to Maranello's amazing season of '61.

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DCN

 

Holy smokes! Great photos of some serious auto erotica. This, paired with a continuation of the “pretty girls with Ferraris” in the same email…made my day! Thanks!