Greatest “Existing” Ferrari’s

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I will add a third one, the Fellini Fantuzzi to that, the body initially on 4381 and now since 1980 on 8733gt which you kindly helped me access for my Octane article in 2018

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Perhaps somebody should start a new thread focussing on "The greatest Ferrari Rebodies"?

Marcel Massini

 

I nominate 0627.

 

Don't you mean 0672 MDTR?

 

Sorry, I see you did mean 0627.

 

Marcel suggested a Re-bodied thread, not Re-engined thread. 0627 was my attempt to open an old can of worms. Avanti!

 

Marcel you showed a photo of 0872 which I love but it was rebodied several times, that is why I chose 0870. So you posted a revised car yourself and you see there is nothing wrong with that

 

Marc

Although I partially agree with you I really meant cars that received a different style body. Such as 08733 or 1777 GT, etc.

Marcel Massini

 

OK, I’ll play.
While these three may not qualify in full sense of OPs “greatest”, but if they were in my garage, I could easily see myself planning & coming up with a lot more long distance vintage driving exercises & road trip vacations.

0008M
0460AM
2689GT

Obviously there are plenty of others that I’d be more than happy to wear tires out before they become past due for replacement time wise, but I could see myself quite content with even one of the above examples.

 

I'd agree with 0008 M and 0460 AM, although that one has zero race history whatsoever.

Marcel Massini

 

I was going to mention that, but since these were listed just as personal favorites, I didn’t think it quite necessary.

Besides, I think 0008 M more than qualifies at the top echelons of “greatest”. One could even perhaps argue it having been quite influential establishing the brands recognition and its long history as a maker of victorious cars.

And even without any racing pedigree, I believe the fairly unique ownership history of 0460 AM makes her stand out in a that rarified air also.

 

See "Cavallino" magazine, issue #69 of June 1992.
Also color featured in Henry Rasmussen’s outstanding book “Ferrari, Salute to the Spyder-The Top Ten”, published 1991.

Marcel Massini

 

My three picks would be

#0008M
#0490AM
#0816

(substitutes would include #0320AM, #0774TR, #2819GT, #4293GT and #9437)

 

What about the what could have been best Ferrari? F50GT 001.

 

True, I was so excited about it coming out and heartbroken when it was cancelled.

That was my first article for the Ferrari Market Letter, when it came to the FCA national meet in Virginia in May 1997 at the Landsdowne resort. Gerald Roush had suggested I offer him ideas and when I mentioned the F50GT that weekend he said go for it.

It inadvertently played the star that arrives late because the truck carrying it from the San Francisco are all the way across the country for owner A.Z. broke an axle in the middle of nowhere in Nebraska...but it arrived in time for the concours and was also displayed at the gala dinner on stage with 010I to perfectly herald fifty years of Ferrari.

To actually see it being offloaded from the truck was an awesome moment. I can't post the first page of the FML article here but can post the first one of the article version I wrote for the French Auto Passion monthly magazine for whom I was US correspondent: great memories

Didier Theys had confirmed to me it had all the needed potential but the decision came from the top at Ferrari; no distraction from F1 allowed...we did not realize there were two others when I wrote the article.

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Absolutely not, the racing program was cancelled by Ferrari and the three cars were sold to top collectors under the condition that they never be raced.

 

To be clearer the racing program was cancelled before it even began, the F50GT's were never entered in a single race just a tested a handful of times.

 

And if my memory holds, they were proving more than a few seconds a lap quicker than the 333SP around Fiorano in testing and that was still a money maker for the company so a small part of why they couldn't launch the new car.

 

That may well have been a factor yes,even though they were in different categories.

 

I'm going to go with #007S 1948 166 Inter Coupe Touring, RHD rebodied by Stablimenti Farina

 

I think the Barchetta that won Le Mans and the Mille Miglia, 0008M, should be in this list, no?