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  1. ParadiseRoad

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    #1 ParadiseRoad, Mar 28, 2006
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  2. billnoon

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  3. John Vardanian

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    #3 John Vardanian, Mar 28, 2006
    Nice photo. I thought the TR cam cover were a darker red, more like a brownish red.

    john
     
  4. snj5

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    #4 snj5, Mar 28, 2006
    beautiful photos of an iconically elegant engine.
    I could look at them all day; many thanks.
     
  5. Lemke

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    #5 Lemke, Mar 28, 2006
    Oh man that is nice. Thanks to you I now have a new desktop picture. :D
     
  6. ParadiseRoad

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    #6 ParadiseRoad, Mar 29, 2006
    Bill Noon...thanks for your excellent photo...the six Webers with chrome velocity stacks...the brilliant red Ferrari script cam covers...the twin distributors...mechanical art without a doubt. All that is missing is the incredible sound of that engine revving to redline. After viewing these and other photos today, I had to play my copy of Victory by Design to hear Alain DeCadenet run the 250 TRs of Sir Anthony Bamford and P. Paul Pappalardo up through their gearboxes, then day dream of running a 250 TR south from Big Sur along the Pacific Coast Highway.
     
  7. Bertocchi

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  8. ParadiseRoad

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    #8 ParadiseRoad, Mar 29, 2006
    Bertocchi, thanks for posting that photo. Very unusual to see a photo with the cam covers removed. You wouldn't have a closer view of the mechanism, would you? You state it is the ex-Pappalardo TR, who is the lucky owner now?
     
  9. MJarrettR

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    #9 MJarrettR, Mar 29, 2006
    Chip Connor
     
  10. dretceterini

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    #10 dretceterini, Mar 29, 2006

    I agree, although they look too brown in the first photo...all the photos posted so far look like they have been "photoshopped"
     
  11. JonBrent

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    #11 JonBrent, Mar 29, 2006
    Why are there pads and studs on the cam cover for a 3 carb setup?
     
  12. Bertocchi

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    As per your request. It took some digging.
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  14. ParadiseRoad

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    #14 ParadiseRoad, Mar 29, 2006
    Thanks to everyone who has posted photos in this thread, and especially to Bertocchi for taking the time to find and post that close up of the valve mechanism. That's the best look I've had yet of what is under the covers...fantastic...thanks again.
     
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  16. Ed_Long

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    #16 Ed_Long, Mar 30, 2006
    Gentleman of knowledge:
    We have photos of three TRs so far on this thread, one of which is left hand drive, the other two are right hand drive. I had the impression that all sports racing Ferraris were right hand drive. Is the left hand drive vehicle a reproduction a or conversion from another model, or is my assumption incorrect? Confused!
    Ed
     
  17. MJarrettR

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    #17 MJarrettR, Mar 30, 2006
    Bill Noon's photo is of a customer ordered pontoon fendered 250TR from 1958. This was raced in the USA. All factory team cars were RHD.

    -Jarrett
     
  18. Ed_Long

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    #18 Ed_Long, Mar 30, 2006
    Jarett:
    Ah, well that makes sense. Thanks for the info.
    Ed
     
  19. billnoon

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    #19 billnoon, Mar 30, 2006
    The engine (and car) I posted are from an early 57 model and one with many small different body features from the other 17 client cars.

    It is without exceptiong the most original and correct of the 17 race examples (one was sold new as a road car so I don't count that one.)

    Cheers,

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  20. Bertocchi

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    #20 Bertocchi, Mar 31, 2006
    I believe that you have forgotten about the car Ralph Lauren owns? Purchased by a Naval Architect new and never raced or damaged, then to Pappalardo who displayed it only, and now with Lauren.
     
  21. Marcel Massini

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    #22 billnoon, Mar 31, 2006
    Nope... did not forget anything. 18 cusomer cars built. 17 were race cars 0734/TR was the sole example ordered and sold as a road car.

    Cheers,

    Bill
     
  23. bobafett

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    #23 bobafett, Mar 31, 2006
    Thank you all for the pictures. Easily one of the most stunnign cars to have graced the roads.

    --Dan
     
  24. Christian.Fr

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    #24 Christian.Fr, Mar 31, 2006
    absolute perfection! may be others pics 250gto...
     
  25. Lemke

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    #25 Lemke, Mar 31, 2006
    Is it just me or is that car perfection? Man thats beautiful
     
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