French Ferrari clubs, tracing my car's history

I am trying to find out what happened to my car between 1963 and 1984. I have records from 84 and up. The first owner in the US was Jeff Beard in Seattle in 1984, then a couple more in the region, followed by Barbier in the NL/B, and then I brought the car over to the US. It is a 1963 Ferrari 250 GTE, #4823, silver/black

The only thing that I have for the 20 yr. gap is that my car was apparently shipped to Franco Brittanic Automobiles in Paris (Raab). Mine has US gauges, so it was either converted, or orderd by a US serviceman. My e-mails to FBA and to the Paris Ferrari club either bounced or went unanswered.

I have already checked the usual sources: Raab serial number book, Len Miller, now Bill Preston GTE registry, and posted it on Talaio. Ferrari knows who the first owner is, but will not tell me for privacy reasons.
If anyone has leads, contacts in French F clubs, or knows a European historian, I would appreciate any leads or suggestions. A good bottle of Polish vodka can be air-mailed to any location in the world


thx, luke

Here is a neat vintage advert from a french paper (culd have lured the buyer of my very car)

 

I will try to get in touch to see if they can release the name of the first owner.
I had tried to obtain a heritage certificate for my car. After I submitted my numbers it turned out that while my body, engine, and transmission had matching numbers, my rear diff came from another car, so the car is a mongrel, not a pure blood...It makes no difference to me, so I just created a fake Photoshop certificate (only for my garage wall) to make the car feel better.


Thanks again

Luke