Jay Koka when he painted it called it a "330LMB" which I think is a good way to describe it, to avoid it getting lumped in the "all of the 250GTOs"...LOL!
OK. So this is a complete replica by GTO Engineering. NOTHING to do with 3673SA. Herb did once own the REAL 3673SA. Many moons ago. MarK Shannon
This is a fake/reproduction chassis tag. Do you have a photo showing the actual stamping of the chassis number on the frame? Marcel Massini
Herb lives around the corner from me and I spoke with him at the Sunoco gas station last summer (2013) as he was filling-up this car. Car was "just back from England getting restored", man is it beautiful in the flesh. I actually HEARD the car first and followed Herb to the Sunoco station where our conversation then took place. So then...Is this a "re-created"/"re-bodied" etc. etc. car and NOT a real 250 SWB? Thanks, Jack
Again I have to disappoint. Usually I shoot any and all numbers. Either I slipped up or they weren't there.
Does anyone know what happened to the original 4 litre tipo 163 engine and 4 speed gearbox from 3765LM?
Well...according to this Hemmings article, there is "a" four liter engine on a stand... It doesn't say whether it's THE 4.0 liter or just A 4.0 liter. https://www.hemmings.com/magazine/hsx/2007/01/GTOh-No---1962-Ferrari-GTO/1395032.html
It's not the 4 litre original engine. I believe the owner found a tipo 163 cylinder block and a 4 litre engine was built from that. I don't know where the heads, crank, sump and the other internals came from.
This is correct. PPP sourced the block and the motor was built up from there. I don't know/never asked the source of the parts for that engine.