Ferrari monoposto thread

At least one of them had been Alberto Ascari's factory entered car ar Indianapolis in 1952. Numbered as No. 1, I believe. After that abortive attempt, the car returned to the factory, was shortened, (by most accounts 100mm), and raced by Ascari in two Formula Libre races in Europe in 1953. Then, it was sold to Carlos Patron in Uruguay. In turn, he sold it to Oscar-Maria Gonzales, who raced it for several years, now Corvette/Chevrolet engined. Eventually it was sold to Colin Crabbe and after restoration, he sold it to Van der Lof, whose family still have it. This is/was 0566.

 

Very interesting. I knew the post Crabbe history but nothing of the pre Crabbe....

 

So assuming that was #375-1, that assumes either #0388 was built from scratch in '53/54 or was it built from one of the other unaccounted for 375s......

Leaving us with something like

#375-1 - Works>#375 Indy #2 carries #1 stamp> If so Bothwell>Bross>Merritt>Beutler>Monteverde>Louwman, NL (Indy #2 is stamped #1 underneath)
#375-2 - Works>chassis stamped #375-2 to Rosier>Roycroft, NZ>Nunn>de Joux>Bain>Perfetti, Italy (same #2 throughout or new #2 in late '51?)
#375-3 - Works>#375 Indy #4>Keck>Barrett>Wang, USA (Indy #4 is stamped #3 underneath)
#375-4 - Works>375 Indy #3>Mauro>IMS, USA (process of elimination only, could be any of the 375 F1s)
#375-5 - Works>chassis stamped #375-5 to Landi, RA>Barberis>Crabbe>von Donnhoff>Obrist>BCE>Red Bull, AU (same #5 throughout or?)
#375-6 - Works>?
#375-7 - Works>?
#375-8 - Works>?
#375-9 - Not built?
#375-010 - Thinwall #4>dismantled>supposedly the car is in a French museum today

Still have to allocate 375 chassis #s to

1 - #375-0388>Built '53/54, many believe as #375 Indy #1> Chinetti>Holterbosch>Mak>Knobloch, AU (if not 375 Indy #1)
2 - #375 Indy #1> Built '52, aborted entry for Indy '53> Unknown (If not #0388)
3 - #340-0566> Traditional history says this used frame #125-C-04>same Crabbe history as above
4 - another #375-5, could be the 500/625 based car built in '57 for Gonzalez

The only thing we can be sure of is Ferrari was a tiny company always short of cash so anything usable would have been sold so unless we can find a massive writen off style crash, #375-6, #375-7 and #375-8 will have some further history, whatever that might be

 

The 375 at the Louwman Collection.
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a while ago Marcel posted a pic from 375 INDY Louwman
the car has GP/50/1 on it

 

This is the light blue car, right? If so, I believe it now belongs to a member of the DuPont family.

 

Noted Ferrari collector Lammot Dupont.

 

Two cars with number 2, the 1950 car which won the 1951 British and German GP. It was last seen at the 1951 Italian GP with Landi. At this race the other No2 debuted, driven by Villoresi. Then sold to Rosier in 1952.

There is also another 375, the car that debuted at the 1952 Valentino GP, driven by Villoresi. This was a short wheel base car compared to the Indy spec cars driven by Ascari and Farina. I think this car may have become 0388. Could be wrong.

 

Ferrari was not a tiny company. Even in 1945, it employed circa 160 people...