250 LM Picture Thread

Rob- Thanks. I was just wondering how life would have been different if I had bought the 250 LM for $9800 instead of Dino 246 GT 2984 for $10,600? Neither one had air conditioning, so it would not have made much difference and the SOHC V12s were easy to tune. Never would have survived my tours of duty overseas, though. A little hindsight would have been nice. Sometimes being practical is totally wrong.

Taz
Terry Phillips

 

Ed,

Was that photo from the first ownership or the second time? 5909LM was a h*ll of a fun ride if one's left leg didn't give out and the ear plugs were in place.

Jeff

 

Here you go. A bit expensive for my tastes. Sold my copy for a lot less. Wish I still had it. Have to look up the AQ issue.

Taz
Terry Phillips

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sortby=2&tn=ferrari+250lm&x=68&y=12

 

Marcel there a three copies of your book on abebooks.com

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=Massini&kn=Ferrari+250LM&sts=t&x=66&y=11

Starting at 270$

To those who have the book, as I once told Marcel after interviewing Jackie Epstein 10 years ago: note that it was not 6051 which Jackie Epstein raced at Pheonix Park in Ireland: 6051 was already in a ship bound for Australai where it was due to race. In Ireland Epstein drove another borrowed 250LM, can't remeber which right now. IOther than than an excellent book that I have had since new.

Love LM's, my test drive of 6051 in cavallino issue 105 was a major highlight: the engine sounds like it is in your head and that driving experience is what it is all about not chassis numbers and speculation

best regards,

Marc

 

Even if this image looks like authentic sixties material, it's from an age when there was already aids. In the pic you see some aids, and they look a bit helpless.
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That's #6119.

 

Marcel or any one else that may know: My close friend has been intimate with the 250 LM that was the Paris Show car owned until recently by Tom Stegman of Cincinnati Ohio. I think the car was white. Any one know of this car?

Gene

 

Umm, did you look at the start of this thread? There are multiple posts with photos of this car by the current owner, MROZ.

 

c/n is 6025.

 

Post #18 pic has Bill Victor in the background (tall gentleman) who oversaw Tom's restoration of 6025 and was his collection's caretaker for many years. Logo on his red ballcap reads 'Allard', IIRC.

 

To me anyways, the 250LM was one of, if not, the most beautiful classic Ferrari of all time........I remember as a 10 year old kid saving my allowance for 6 weeks so I could buy a 1/48 scale 250LM slot car........

Great thread.

 

Hereby I show you a very nice picture of 250 LM s/n 5843 GT.
Taken on the 27th of march '66 during the ZOLDER GRAND NATIONAL.
With "Beurlys" (Jean Blaton) behind the wheel this car took victory.

5843 was the first of three LM's bought by the ECURIE FRANCORCHAMPS and, as it was the drivers' first contact with a mid-engined layout, posed certain difficulties. Only Willy Mairesse with his F1 experience was immediately happy.
An interesting episode relating to this machine was Jackie Ickx's debut with a Ferrari and in a major event, the Daytona 24-hour race in 1966 when he was paired with Leon Dernier.

Information from the book "Ferrari Ecurie Garage Francorchamps" written by Gianni Rogliatti and published in 1992 by Giorgio Nada Editore.

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Cordiali saluti,
JR
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Bridgehampton 1964.
Marcel Massini
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Recently, while racing a Smart at Le Castellet..................(6051 and 5899).
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Is that what is called the Drogo long nose ( on the left one ? - 6051 ) ? Was it owned by Guikas ?

 

Yes, Drogo long nose. NO, not owned by Guikas. Swiss owner.
Marcel Massini

 

I guess you were very happy that it is a rear wheel drive
A Smart on the track ok, but with to LM's in your mirror.....

Great stuff!

JR

 

Well, I managed to stop them........
Here is 6051 and 5899 again.
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Here another one; taken at the national car show in Brussels, 1965.

Note the Sharknose scale model and the names of some period drivers on the wall; "Beurlys", Lucien Bianchi & Gérald Langlois.

I think this is 6023 GT, the second Ecurie Francorchamps LM.

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Cordiali saluti,
JR
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WOW..I think i prefer the long nose now ..Thanks for the pictures !

 

A few more.
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If there was ever a Ferrari that I would build a replica of it would be the LM. Lack of funds to buy the real thing, and I'd omit the emblems. What a car!

 

Guikas car was 5845.