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  1. thecarnut

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    #4 thecarnut, Mar 13, 2012
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    I did not have the opportunity to photograph Frank Sinatra's Ghibli although it was parked closed to my car. Perhaps someone can post photos.

    It was a busy day with tons of people and great cars. Similar to Pebble Beach last year the Ferrari GTO was a featured. At Pebble the GTOs were roped off, at Amelia you could wander around the cars, look inside and talk to the owners.

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    #5 MK1044, Mar 13, 2012
    Ivan,

    What did you bring? Post a photo.

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    #7 wbaeumer, Mar 13, 2012
    #4503 is -IMO- together with #4506/ex-4505 the most important 450S.

    Although very original, #4503 unfortunately lost its beautiful lines due to the hard life the car had in the 50s.

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    #8 Merak1974, Mar 13, 2012
    Beautiful car and well deserved award. It has been a joy to follow your thread about this car :)
     
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    #9 Merak1974, Mar 13, 2012
    Nevertheless, sufficiently good looking to win the award as the most beautiful race car at the event!
     
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    #10 wbaeumer, Mar 13, 2012
    Yep, well deserved!
     
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    #11 PSk, Mar 13, 2012
    I've never heard the 450s referred to as beautiful before ... how times change. It was originally a untameable brute.

    Personally the 200SI is prettier.

    I wonder if people really know what they are voting for? :)
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    I find #4503 a beautiful car when in Sebring 1957 with Fangio.
    Later cars lost that very well balanced lines and became more brutish & bulky.

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    #13 MK1044, Mar 13, 2012
    Beautiful car, Ivan. You've got great taste in Maseratis and do really nice work with them.
     
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    #14 ColdWater, Mar 13, 2012
    Congratulations Ivan, the final product looks terrific !

    Now you have the entrée into some very interesting and exclusive events: http://www.uniquespecialones.com/, http://www.concorsodeleganzavilladeste.com/en/. Might be a fun way to enjoy all your hard work. The 'value enhancement' should easily compensate for travel costs.

    Interesting to see that you were parked back-to-back with a long-awaited Flaminia PF coupe.

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    #15 David Lind, Mar 13, 2012
    One of those pics showed the Chaparral 2J "suction car". Was Jim Hall there?
     
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    #16 f308jack, Mar 14, 2012
    Great achievement Ivan, and well deserved after all the painstaking work!

    The 450 is of course quite spectacular, but I have to agree with Walter, something seems to have been lost. Is it the front of it?

    As an aside, does anyone know where 4509 is?
     
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    #17 wbaeumer, Mar 14, 2012
    Yep, the nose is now shorter than in Sebring `57.

    #4509 is still in the USA, owned by someone on the East Coast. Its together with #4502 and #4506/ex-4505 (which has not its matching-no. engine fitted!) the most original 450S in existance.
     
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    Very much agreed Walter. This looks more like a 300s or a 200s with a V8 than the bulky-ish 450s look.
     
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    Your spyder looks magnificent. Wish I could have been there to se it
     
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    #20 thecarnut, Mar 14, 2012
    Thanks Don. Those look like really fancy events. I wonder if they will let me in with sneakers :)

    The Flaminia coupe was extremely nice!

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    Nice car although the nose should be restored to the original shape. Here is a photo I took of it at the Sebring 2002 race. I have a bunch of color photos from the 1957 Sebring race of this car. Alot of details are wrong on this restoration. You should not win a concours unless your car is restored correctly, unless it was just a peoples choice award.

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    #22 wbaeumer, Mar 14, 2012
    I investigated the car some years ago in Monaco when the owner B.M. drove it in the hist. GP which was quite a funny idea...!

    Yep, the car is wrong in many details due to the resto in Italy many moons ago. At that time the restoration-standart was much different than is today.

    Yes, many color photos of the car from Sebring `57 are available.
     

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