No headrest fitted for these 365 GTB/4 seats either > All the early cars seem to feature a radio! Image Unavailable, Please Login
I have pics of my 12995 (completed November, 1969) from March, 1970 in front of the original owner's home in Brescia - no headrests and no radio.
This plexi car was ordered from the factory with headrests and a full harness, the cost was £150, plus it had a voxson radio as well from the factory. So that's blown me out of the water thinking that plexi cars did not have headrest! http://girardo.com/available/1970-ferrari-365-gtb4-daytona-plexiglas_1/
Is the s/n reference accurate ? Looks to me like the bumper rubber discrepancy is merely due to lighting, but there appear to be several other coachwork "issues" more commonly observed on production Daytonas, along with couple of unusual features that may have been unique to this example. The amount of unusual features, including obvious seat trim and lack of headrests along with many others details with appearance of "a rush job" would suggests this must've been some pre-production example ?
I would think so as there were only two 365 GTB/4 examples built at that time for the auto shows. Another view of 11929 on the Ferrari stand. Note the exhaust location like the Pininfarina version 365 GTB/4 has to. Same exhaust position as shown in Marcel's post #1186 earlier here. Image Unavailable, Please Login
I found that interior view ages ago. Perhaps it is a later coupe, I can't say for sure. The central seat trim color (red?) seems to match the carpet which was a characteristic of 11795. Yes the headrests are missing in that view but it must have been something special to take a production picture like that where ever the car was being finished. Speaking of a rush job when they shipped 12301 to the USA it was just a push car. After show time in the USA the coupe was shipped back to the factory for installation of the engine. That would be a different production engine than 10287 featured when it was being road tested.
Thanks. It's just that I've never done in-depth research to these prototypes and my (far from conclusive) notes or references don't show any (prototype or production) Daytonas with that s/n. , but I think I've seen it referenced to QM somewhere.
Here is some history included when the spyder was for sale... http://www.ferraris-online.com/pages/cardetail.php?reqcardir=FE-365GTB4-11929
The coupe 275 GTB/4 10287 was originally silver but later (after it came to Atlanta GA?) was painted red. Still without an exterior mirror on the drivers door as seen in the second picture from 1968. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
From another angle 10287 on test at Modena November 1967 > Image Unavailable, Please Login Maybe a Peter Coltrin picture at the local Modena airport?
The 365 GTB/4 was designed with the plexiglas cover for the headlights. The prototype 10287 was later given a 275 GTB/4 style front clip with just the headlight covers. This was done so the future front clip design of the 365 GTB/4 would remain hidden while testing. It was felt an early preview appearance of the new design would hurt the then current sales of the 275 GTB/4 model. There was no 'evolution' of the 275 GTB/4 front clip into the new pleixglass cover design for the new 365 GTB/4 model.
More of the same setting but from a different angle > Image Unavailable, Please Login Note the Pininfarina fender badge.
The Daytona was a replacement sold by Ferrari until the owners new red Daytona GTS could be built. This is the only other color picture of the Daytona I have seen from that time period > Image Unavailable, Please Login
Motori > Image Unavailable, Please Login s/n 10287 had a one-off 4380 cc Tipo 243 engine: a Tipo 209 (330) block fitted with three-valve, twin-plug heads and a dual ignition system. Image Unavailable, Please Login The front redone and color changed to red...
Yes there are numerous pictures of other test cars including race cars at that airport location. The triple taillights design was seen on other Ferrari models and also made it into production on the Daytona replacement; the 365 GT/4 berlinetta boxer. Ironically the prototype Pininfarina boxer featured large double rather than smaller triple taillights... Image Unavailable, Please Login
Another view of 10287 at home in Rome > Image Unavailable, Please Login Note the unique tile design for their driveway as seen in post #1218 also.
Those wrap around chrome bumpers and bright trim below the door sill on 10287 really aged the design. With the thicker flared fender arches and the more modest bumpers the look of the final Daytona design really improved. The greater width of the Daytona compared to the 275 GTB/4 also worked well. Thank you very much Marcel for sharing this other image!
