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  1. bigodino

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    It looked real enough to me but the steering wheel looked funny. Also it was very few days after the Maranello parade in which not ran dirty and less than a week before it was needed in Monza not to mention prep.
     
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    I heard that about the steering wheel too. Maybe it's a simple one used only for getting the car on and off a trailer and for being pushed around. The number 50 car ran clean during the Maranello parade. Cleaning a car only takes an hour or so. It depends on how many 499Ps have been built so far. I guess not a lot?
     
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    Very good point on the steering wheel and avoids damage/theft of the expensive and fragile real one.

    I don't get the feeling they have more than a small handful of car right now and considering someone in the know told me they would charge 8M to any private owners who want one for 2024 that is a hell of a hurdle budget wise for any private team...

    I have seen display cars for decades but did not get the feeling this was one.

    Showing it during LMC was a must really.

    My first sighting of a mock up bare shell display car was at the racing car show in Paris 40 years ago they had a Brabham Piquet car and I, naive teenager, asked why there was a piece of carpet riveted where the carburetor stacks should have emerged:)
     
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    I've compared pictures of the 499P at Le Mans Classic and during the Maranello parade. They're not the same car, unless a number of decals have been rearranged. Which is very unlikely. Also the 24h Le Mans decals are missing on the LMC car. Instead, it has the regular DHL decals. I do think the LMC 499P is a real car and not just a mock up. It's too detailed for that, including a number of tear-offs on the windscreen.
     
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    True, though the Le Mans stickers would be removed for the next race. They would be obsolete and out of place.
     
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    By the way the next edition is planned for 2025. So they change the cycle from even to odd years.
     
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    I realized I hadn't posted any pictures yet, so here goes:
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    Your pix are super small on the screen, I'd say 2 by 3 cm max.
    Any chance for proper sized ones?
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    Hi Marcel,

    You can click on them for larger and better pictures (F-Chat compresses pictures too much).
     
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    Strange, something must have happened because the links no longer work. I'll post them again.
     
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    I did click on the pix but they remain super small.

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    Click on the pictures for hi-res versions.
     
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    Marcel, can you help me by telling how you see which cars are replica’s and how you see it?
     
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    How?
    By chassis number.

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    Ah, oke. I did not see all chassisnumbers. Good tip for next time!
     
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