How ‘Ferrari’ Sourced $70 Million Vintage Cars to Create Authentic Racing Sequences

...picture vehicle supervisor Danny Triphook says that as the production reached out to members of a worldwide network of auto collectors who they hoped would loan their vehicles to use in the sequence, his collaborators’ confidence was buoyed after unexpectedly obtaining access to car they had initially lumped in the latter category.

“We thought we were not going to be able to find the car that won the Mille Miglia, the one driven by Piero Taruffi,” says Triphook. “But what happened is that whilst talking to one of the owners, he said, ‘What do you think about having the actual winning car of the film on the film? A friend of mine owns it, and I can just speak to him and we can have it.’”

He says that a lot of collectors ended up joining simply because they learned their friends already had done so. “Once some important collectors in Europe said yes, the other ones just wanted to follow — ‘I’m not going to miss this’,” he remembers. “Some of the cars we had there, they [cost] $10, 20, 40, 70 million dollars, and we were using them on set — you can imagine the insurance policy for those.”

For the vehicles they couldn’t borrow from ultra-wealthy collectors, “Ferrari” turned to Rita Campana, whose family company owns and operates the oldest body shop in Modena. Armed with Campana’s 76 years of experience, she led the process of developing believable replicas of the cars raced by Team Ferrari in the Mille Miglia. “We could build them like we could have done with an original car,” Campana says. “In three months and a half basically, we built three Ferrari 335 S. Two Ferrari 315 S. Two Ferrari 801 F1, and two Maserati 450 S.”


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