Same car, same weekend, Lunken driving, same photographer (Ralph Rye). Image Unavailable, Please Login
Remember my on this car during the expo Ferrari under the Skin in 2018 in London. Ferrari 250 GT Ellena #0803GT. Image Unavailable, Please Login
I don't think it is the bare chassis of 0803 in Wim's post with 2018 picture and as in the 2020 DK Engineering video I posted? That chassis also had incorrect disc brakes. 0803 was already built into a RHD 1957 250 TR replica with drum brakes, as in your picture, in the 90s by DK Engineering.
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Not sure of the nature of your question, but from a period approximately 1957 to 1958, Ferrari tried a single 12-lead Marelli distributor, Marelli St.195 DTEM-KS, applied often to road-purpose 250GT V12. Competition-purpose cars appear to all have still used the twin Marelli distributor arrangement. By 1959, this particular experiment was abandoned and 250 GT had again typically twin 6-lead distributors.. Other versions of the 12-lead distributor were used in pairs on the Vittorio Jano-designed twin-plug, four-cam, competition motors - 315S, 335S, etc. A version of this 12-lead distributor was also used on the Maserati 3500GT twin-plug six-cylinder motor. As used in the 250GT, the distributor was troublesome in that the rotor design caused internal arcing, as described in an excellent article about this unit written By Dyke Ridgley for the Ferrari Market Letter many years ago.
Thanks for the explanation. I'm rather new to the Ferrari cars, but have been focusing on the Boano/Elena cars since I finally fulfilled my quest for a '56 Boano. I haven't witnessed a single distributor on any of these models, although I haven't dug too deep yet. I have seen varying numbers of mechanical fuel pumps however. This Elena Chassis baffles me somewhat with the centered shifter on the transmission (usually Boano/Elena version have it offset to the left), and the trans case looks different. The seats are extra sporty as well? But I understand that this may be a display chassis, and not super accurate for Road Cars. Perhaps a TDF? The twin-plug, four cam engines you mention with the dual 12 lead distributors must be amazing. My Maserati 3500GT uses just one of these type distributors as you mention. I'm always learning! Many Thanks, RF.
Actually the each distributor in the four cam Belantani engines (not Jano, but using Jano style valve gear) has four sets of points, as the engine has four coils.. Setting them up is a project
Thanks for the clarification Dyke - here a photo of the four points packed into the four-cam version of the distributor. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Hi, sorry to noise you, but I hope your wonderful knowledge of the Ferrari's may help me (for models) to solve the question of the tiny white line between colors in some cars. I show two cars: Ferrari 375 winner of 1000 km of Buenos Aires (Saenz Valiente) and the 275 GTB #29 at Le Mans...is a photo artifact or really it is there? Thank you for watching, all the best, Alessandro Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Call it a photo artifact or optical illusion, but that tiny white line between colors isn’t really there. It is a trick of the eye rather than a small strip of white paint.
I'm currently scanning pictures I received from others. This is 0155, a Ghia coupe. It was for sale in 1994 by Mario Bernardi in Germany when he kindly sent me these pictures. By the way after I'm done scanning these kind of pictures, are they still of value to some, or can I just throw them away? Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
No, don’t throw them away! I love to see these old photo’s. PS If you do want to throw them away, I would be happy to take them from you : )
Hi Marcel, I honestly don't know if they are as valuable or even collectible as they are not in period pictures. They are also non official pictures. But judging from your reaction there must be a market for them.
Nothing to do with market or not. Forget money. Always, absolutely always, keep physical prints. 1994 might not be "in period" right now but today in 30 years? Or 50? Marcel Massini
For those who don't know, any digital document is just visible as long as the electronics are working. The day a serious solar flare (or something else) is going to kill all our electronic devices, those who have thrown away photos, books and other docs will regret it.
Exactly Jonathan. And to answer Giotto's worry: I have them copied on a portable back up disk, disconnected from my desktop. It seems I've stirred up an interesting topic. If I had plenty of space I wouldn't worry too much about keeping physical material. But I don't have plenty of space and on top of that digital pictures are so much easier to archive, search and access. But maybe something for another day to discuss. I don't want to derail this thread.
I'm talking about a *serious* solar flare or something similar that will also make external backups inaccessible or destroy them. In the meantime, yes, an electronic documant is easier to archive.
