Ferrari Sport Cars Thread

Pegasi(?)

 

Four I think, one spider barely visible in first row - and another further back in the grid. Jose Nogueira Pinto finished 3rd with a Ferrari (#83).

 

Yes four Pegasos seems right, I missed the spyder.

Oh and Readplays: not that it matters much but regarding mentioning more than one Pegaso; Pegasi would be correct speaking Italian, yes, but speaking Spanish (and any other latin language such as French or Portuguese) it would be Pegasos and some would say no plural s necessary.

At Motorcar Gallery in Fort Lauderdale a couple of decades ago Ed Waterman the owner owned a blue Pegaso Z102 in totally original condition with very badly cracked leather. The only one in the state of Florida. That car had so much charisma, I loved sitting in it in its dark remote warehouse, examining its details. He owned it for years as an idle non running project until a Belgian made an offer he could no refuse. It had been bought in period in Spain by a Californian who shipped it to the east coast, drove it across the US to his home and kept it for years until EW bought it.

About ten years ago (perhaps someone can indicate the exact year?) there was a Pegaso exhibition at Retromobile, curated at least in part by Steve Tillack and he said that car was one of those shown, totally restored. The author of the book, Enrique Coma Cros, was there of course, interesting person.

 

Jose Nogueira Pinto usually raced chassis 0572 M in 1955 and 1956.

 

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Hello Marc, hope youre great.

In Italian, 'Pegasi' is very correct, but sounds off. After all, there was only 1 famous "Pegaso".
Pegasos (cars) in Spanish is way better, but for instance you cannot pluralize Porsche in Italian. Una Porsche, due Porsche.

Very odd languages, and how they work. Ein Porsche Zwei Porsche. Ein Pegaso, Zwei Pegaso. Une Pegaso, deux Pegaso, perhaps?

Una Ferrari, due Ferrari.

Kind regards,
Alberto

PS. Enrique Coma Cros, is a dear friend, and published a photo of my Pegaso keychain (he had never seen one before) in his latest book. He is The God of Pegaso.

 

For 0300M with the race number 119 what do the approximately 14 (decals - stickers?) strategically placed around the rear trunk represent? Were they something to do with events entered? They didn't appear on the restored car. Anyone know, thanks.

 

No sticker but metal badges ,given for every race/hillclimb that you participated at least in Belgium no idea in other countries . A Belgian Ferrari historian 's father used to make them ,he once told me .
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Thank you for sharing these details, very informative!
And Aardy to for the picture, even from the correct 'time frame' on this page!!

 

Minzoni in 0276 MM crashed at very high speed and overturned.
See also page 13 of the Ferrari Club Italia magazine, Anno VII No. 1, of January-April 1995.

Collucci was 3rd in class.

Marcel Massini

 

Noteworthy that repaired nose of 0276/MM looks quite exactly like modified 0049/S, further suggesting that 0049/S was very likely modified in period of 1955-56.

 

You can cross out Pasquale Placido from the missing list, he actually drove a Lancia Appia to 39th place.

Very nice to learn about Scaminaci’s and Diaferia’s cars, I had a few entries for them with a question mark. Thank you !

 

#?? Melchiore Scaminaci 2nd in class "Categoria Sport Classe oltre 2000 CC".

 

Both Sparken and Piotti were entered in the Sports Cars over 2,000 cc race. Sparken won the race on track but got a penalty for blatantly jumping the start.

That day there was also a Sports Cars over 2,000 cc race with a Ferrari enrty:
#99 Hans Davids DNA

 

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