Turin Salon GTO 52743 as sold by and photographed for Joe Sackey Classics LLC Image Unavailable, Please Login
FWIW between 28 February 1984 and today more than 200 automobile magazines have published 288 GTO articles. Marcel Massini
I am searching for a set of original injectors for the 288 GTO. If anyone one has access to these , please PM me.
You don't need to be a world famous 288 GTO expert to know that the F106D engine is a 208 turbo engine (this one is the No. 000288) and not the 288 GTO F114B engine. The picture clearly shows it and then I put the emoticon to clearly explain it was just a joke: it's called "humor" and i thought it was easy to understand. ciao
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You should photograph them with a red bow on the top one and a gold bow on the bottom one! Ho! Ho! Ho!
Here https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/threads/yellow-288-gto-how-many-exist.337937/ There are also some images in this thread of silver, black, white, yellow and blue GTOs. It should always be pointed out when discussing these cars for the sake of the uninitiated that all GTOs were created red.
Apparently the 288/F40 bare block is just a normal V8 block from the period, so it could be used in such if someone chose to do so
You are right: the 288/F40 crankcase is the same (a bit modded) 308 block and the 208 turbo have the same crankcase too. The 288 GTO shares the crankshaft (it's exactly the same, no mods) with 208-308 (any): so my 208 turbo (F106D) has the same 288 GTO (F114B) crankshaft and a very close crankcase (the same, modded). I liked to discover that my 208 turbo has "000288" engine production number (of course it's just a coincidence). Only the F40 crankshaft is different from the 208-308 one. ciao
yes and no, Joe: prototype 47649 was painted in red during its ("private") life ad a prototype, but was sold and registered in Italy by an official dealership in Yellow. So it's Yellow, officially, even if it was first red Painted. A prototype can change many times: different engines, wheels, interiors parts and so on. So me (and Ferrari) consider it as Yellow. We could debate it for years, but the story is this and Ferrari said "Yellow", as they can change the color how many times they want before delivering the car: the last time it was changed officially in Yellow, so even if there are many pictures of that prototype No.6 painted in red, the final configuration before registration was Yellow. So you are right when you say "they were all created in red" but that (only) 47649 one was registered as Yellow and that's the official color: all red except one, 47649. ciao
[QUOTE="Albert-LP, post: 146322050, member: 95783" So you are right when you say "they were all created in red" but that (only) 47649 one was registered as Yellow and that's the official color: all red except one, 47649. [/QUOTE] We should all start thinking of Red as the primer!
That's all I am saying, nothing more, no asterisks or provisos, let's not make a huge deal about this, that's already been done ad nauseum. 47649 was a running red car before it later became a yellow car, it was created red just like all other 288 GTOs, that much is indisputable. FWIW, personally, I could care less what other colors Ferrari SpA, Pininfarina or anyone else painted some cars after they were created in red, for the purpose of sales or whatever other reason, some are utterly fascinated by this as is their prerogative, I'm not, that's why I chose my words carefully and limited my comments.
Mr Mantovani: 47649 was NOT registered as yellow. Not a single automobile registration in Italy mentions the actual car color. Car colors are never listed or mentioned on Italian automobile registrations. Marcel Massini
