Fabulous 1972 Video: Prescott Hill Climb, Bamford, Maranello Concessionaires......

Same meeting.
Bamford 250 GTO Series II and the 166 MM/53 Spider Vignale of Bernard Worth at the start of the hillclimb.

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In the last photo of post 20 at left the older gent with pipe is that Colonel Hoare?

 

Jess cornering in 3607 GT.

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No, not The Colonel.
From my poor memory it is Donald Sleator of Franco-Britannic Autos Ltd.

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Ah ok thanks, then I actually met him briefly in Levallois, one old lady friend of my family who was a client of his actually wrote a note when I was about 14 in 1978 so he would let me visit the garage and he just said go ahead.

 

Another view.
In the back is Sir Anthony P. Bamford's little house Farley Hall, in Farley, near Oakamoor, Staffordshire.

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Oh nice one I see what you did there.
I post/start a thread yesterday with rare vintage ferrari footage from this youtube poster on this section. You even comment on it saying the video was posted a while back.
Then you start a new thread using the other video, lol . Nothing so weird as folk
https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/threads/vintage-home-videos.621876/

 

Speaking of "gems"......... at that BFOC meet in Prescott 1972.

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Great Video Steve.
Thanks for posting, and the additional photos from Marcel.

 

Abbott trying to have a second go at "bespoke Ferrari coachwork"?

 

Great day at the hill.

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275 GTS # 07171 reportedly fitted with a 4.9 litre engine...along with rear seats...and this hardtop by coachbuilder David Baker...
Where is it now?

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what kind of wheels are those? central locks also with 4 bolts/srews?
never have seen this at a Ferrari, only at english cars

 

Engine 07171 went into 330 GT 2+2 #5403.
Chassis 07171 was equipped by David O. Baker with 500 Superfast engine #6345 SF. As you know 6345 SF is the car in which Mr William Tompkins, a farmer in Northamptonshire was killed 2 February 1967 on the A1 highway near Peterborough.
The 500 Superfast wreck was broken up with some of the remains going to Jack Pierce/JAP Engineering, the original engine #6345 SF (internal #42/SA) was later installed in a 275 GTB and then later temporarily installed in 500 Superfast chassis #6661 SF. And then in 07171.

Car 07171 was last seen around 2000 with Tom Walduck (former owner of 750 Monza 0504 M).
But?

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3413 GT at Prescott 1972.

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And then at Bamford's home.

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Thanks, Marcel.
Fantastic photos from the days when Ferraris were not as common as they are today.....

 

This was the best looking GTO.

 

@23:58 in video in lot of Maranello Concessionaires. Could this be 3481GT? Red RHD with roof mounted antenna. Would have still been in UK in 1972.
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3481 GT was originally Bianco Acrylico Salchi.

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This thread is an amazing treat thank you Marcel, Steve, those were the days, they were just driven, enjoyed not worth much as opposed to pampered icons in mausoleums today for many of them...

 

Marcel,

I notice in third photo, a 330 2+2 with a 1971 Michigan front license plate.

Any idea of the owner at the time, I assume here in Detroit before it went to Europe.

 

3481 was repainted red in late ‘60s according to UK documents

 

Oh my! Whacked with the Ugly Stick.

 

That video brings back memories - thanks for posting. As a young lad in his early teens, I was fortunate enough to have a cousin who regularly campaigned a V8 engined TVR Grantura at Prescott who frequently took me out of school at weekends to go to meetings at Prescott when he was competing. I have four abiding memories of those outings:

1. The first meeting at which the FOC were officially present - to an impressionable young man, these cars were simply astounding!
2. A 250 GTO 64, quite possibly the one in the video.
3. The late Gerry Tyack's Porsche 906 (and his moustache!).
4. Being given a ride up the hill in the passenger seat of a GT40.

Happy days!