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The book pictured in the post above (#6574) is also signed by Lewandowski, but it's not the Art & Car edition book.
Do you have some comparaison between both, in terms of presentation and information ? (I only have the most recent, as pictured, book)

 

Thanks, I couldn't figure out which one the pictured one was.

 

Yeah that's another book from the two you mentioned.

That is the relatively recently released book which comes in a box with a separate book with text.

Here is the much older and more expensive Art and Car book.


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I only have the book from the Art & Car series (and the Bentley, Continental, Lambo Diablo and Mercedes-Benz 600 SEC in that series), so I can't compare the two for you, but it is old. From the early 1990s if I'm not mistaking. There are some interesting interviews in it, with Materazzi for instance and I think with Carlo Tazzioli as well.

Natan

 

What are y'all's opinion on the Lewandowski Art & Car GTO book from the 80's?

 

Was that one of mine?

 

That's a good question.
I'd have to check and get back to you on that one.

 

Ok so you definitely owned it as you can see, so if it's not on your shelf then I guess I must have bought it.

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it is worth having because there is information in it in English, that is otherwise only available in German.

Natan

 

Is it better than the Joe Sackey GTO book?

 

At my age, short memories are the norm. I just couldn't recall. Thanks.

 

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/169410648_1950-and-1948-58-grand-prix-at-watkins-glen-programs

Being auctioned today


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Ted I missed this auction, thanks for the link.

 

Don't waste your money on the Lewandowski book edited recently by Delius Klasing. This is, in my opinion, very disappointing.

This is a boxed set containing two books. A photo album that's just a hodgepodge of images with little coherence - and some of which are really quite unremarkable, plus a booklet with a very good text by Lewandowski, but which is only a few dozen pages long - the kind of book that's worth tens of dollars, not this absurd price for a pseudo collector's item. I know a publisher who has decided to make some easy money here...

 

Thank you.

 

Speaking of 288 GTO books, the next Ferrari book coming in the Supercars series by Gaetano Derosa (after the F40 and Testarossa books which have already been published and which I have) is one on the 288 GTO. Currently due end of May.

 

Personally speaking I only bought the book because the GTO is my favourite model otherwise I would have saved my money.

 

As I intend to a by a brochure from 1953 with a dealer stamp by Luigi Chinetti, I would like to ask for some help in verifying the authenticity of this stamp. Unfortunately, Ferrari yearbooks of that period couldn't help.

The stamp is from 1953 and says:

Ferrari Automobile Luigi Chinetti
U.S.A. Representative
262 East 61st Street New York 21
Templeton

I know that at the beginning of the 1960s his company resided as follows:

Luigi Chinetti Motors, Inc.
780 Eleventh Avenue
New York, N.Y.

In 1970:

Luigi Chinetti Motors, Inc.
600 West Putnam Avenue
Greenwich, Conn.

 

Hello guys,

I would like to ask a couple of things. What is the best book about Enzo Ferrari and if there is a specific book for Ferrari P3/4, 250 LM and 250TR.

I saw some while i was searching online but the majority of them weren't available. Also, a book about the 333 SP would be interesting.

Thank you in advance.

Kind Regards
Graig

 

1947 Showroom at Avenue D’Iena, Paris, France (Chinetti & Plisson)
1949 49th Street (for short time only), New York/NY
1949 19th Street (lower Manhattan, under the West Side Highway), New York/NY
1953 252 East 61st Street, New York City/NY
----- 57th Street (upper Manhattan), New York/NY
1958 444 West 55th Street, New York City/NY (Chinetti & Fronteras)
1961 780 11th Avenue, New York City/NY
1965 600 West Putnam Avenue, Greenwich/CT 06830 (opened August 1965)
1970s 301 East 57th Street, New York/NY
1972 Chinetti-Garthwaite Imports (Algar) at 110 West Swedesford Road, Paoli/PA
1977 Small showroom on southeast corner of 58th Street and 2nd Ave in Manhattan/NY

Marcel Massini

 

Enzo = by Brock Yates, or the one by Luca del Monte.
P3/4 = by Christian Huet & Pietro Carrieri, Cavalleria Series, 1995.
250 LM = by Marcel Massini, Osprey Publishing 1982, another one by Doug Nye & Pieto Carrieri, Cavalleria Series 1996, or the one by David Piper at La Mille Miglia Editrice 1988, etc.
250 TR = by Joel Finn, Osprey Publishing, or Newport Press, 1979, or the book Rivals by Chris Nixon.
333 SP = by Davide Franzini at Solaris 1998, another one by David G. Seibert & Pietro Carrieri, Cavalleria Series 1996, another one by Terry O'Neil at Dalton Watson Fine Books, etc.

Plus many many more.
All of the above can still be found but it depends where and from whom and for how many $$$.

Marcel Massini

 

Just perfect and fantastic!!! Highly appreciated, dear Mr Massini!

 

3 of my favorites in general! Hope to find my way this year to swiss again to met on a coffee
and get finally my book get signed by you @Marcel Massini

If someone is searching for the La MM 1988, be aware for sticky photo prints and
use paper between the sites and have an eye on the binding, it‘s a heavy book and binding
is a little bit fragile.

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My copy of the Ferrari 250 Le Mans Berlinetta came with the plain white sheets already inserted and I'm pretty sure I bought it new. I know I certainly didn't put them in myself.

I wonder if the publishers anticipated there being an issue with the photos and took preventative action themselves.

Actually all four books in the series are quite nice to own @NürScud.

 

That's interesting about the white sheets being in there. I bought my copy, new, in person from a dealer in the UK along with a then new copy of the 250 GT Sperimentale book back in the very early 1990s. Neither of them came with any white paper inserts. The photo pages do stick together a bit, but fortunately not too much and condition of all still seems fine.