Better looking 250 TR - pontoon or non-pontoon?

I like the looks of the later models, but the pontoon fenders do look very striking.

 

Ok, I took these of a pontoon yesterday.
The color is beautiful. The rear is beautiful; I absolutely love the flared exhaust. The front is growing on me the more I see it in person.

 

It's the first V-12 prototype. But not, I don't think, the first pontoon fendered TR. I think that would be the 4 cylinder chasis 0704, which they fiddled around with for the 1957 Le Mans race. They lengthened the chasis from 88.5 to 92.5 inches and added the Scaglietti bodystyle. So, I'm assuming they also put in a V-12. It was a single cam engine. The car weighed 1700 pounds at race time.

 

Old Guy,

Right, I'm not saying 0666 was ever a 4 cylinder car. I'm saying I don't think it was the first pontoon fender TR. But the one that was the first pontoon fender TR (0704) was made from a 4 cylinder chasis.

Here’s the history, as I understand it. The car I photographed was the first prototype, chasis 0666. It was based on a 1956 290 MM RHD chasis. It had a 92.5 wheelbase. The second prototype was 0704, which was made to race in Le Mans in 1957. This car was made from a modified 4-cylinder chasis 0704. The chasis was lengthened and a pontoon fendered Scaglietti body was added. This second prototype did well at first but then had to drop out of Le Mans.

As has been pointed out in recent discussions here on F-Chat, these vintage cars didn’t retain their original configurations throughout their lives. 0666 definitely was not originally with pontoon fenders. You can see pictures of it in 1957 without that body. Both prototypes got different engines as their design was honed. If you look at pictures of 0666 in Buenos Aires for the 1958 World Sports Car Championship it does have the pontoon fenders by then. So, the first two prototypes were 0666 and 0704. And I believe 0704 was the first to get the Scaglietti bodywork.