Pics of vintages I find/see on the net.

1883GT in September 2011 in Switzerland.
The 1960 Torino Motorshow car, which achieved 19th at the 1962 Targa Florio.
It has since returned to open headlights and no side vents, but apparently during the Targa Florio it was silver, not black as it is today.
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The old thread of the late Branko "elmotorizato" :
https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/threads/0302-found-in-venezuela.267651/page-3#post-139254478

 

You are right : it’s the remains of the « Ferrari Mercedes » found by our regretted friend Branko.
No connection with the early Scaglietti spyder shown in the Marcel’s post #1949.
Thanks !

 

Cyril

What do you mean with this?
I don't get it.
Are you saying the car in post #1949 is not/was not 0302 TF? Or something else?

Marcel Massini

 

#0404MD ?

 

Hi Marcel,
See my post #560 here :
https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/threads/ferraris-en-venezuela-branko-remembered-july-2-2011.265950/page-23
Not 100% sure about all the s/n but what I’m sure it that the car displayed by DK engineering is the one found by Branko and is the ex-Scaglietti spyder Ferrari Mercedes ex-Vignale spyder.
Your pic shows the early Scaglietti spyder raced by Marzotto in 1954...

 

Serial number 0404 seems to have been deleted two times and no remaining pieces can be connected to this serial number anymore.

I wish luck to anyone who wishes to take a pick on original serial number of the rain forest car. It seems to have been restamped as 0304TF and then received serial number 0302TF on a welded tag, but it is really hard to say what it was before becoming 0304TF and if that number was the original one or not. These three sister cars (0302-0304-0306) went trough a lot of development work, testing and repairs. Looks to me that every time an engine already stamped with a different number was installed, the chassis was restamped to match. I agree with Aardy that this is not the Vittorio Marzotto/R.J. Dominguez car.

 

I inspected "0304 TF" several times, last time in 2018.
It had about three welded tags with various numbers.
0304 TF, 0306 TF and 735-S.

Marcel Massini

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I was thinking of 0404MD in the photo posted by Marcel.

 

*O3O4/TF* typing seems rather recent ?

 

i wonder if it'll look like a Vignale coupé again...

 

Raul Dominguez car is the third, the lost one, of the trio 0302-0304-0306.

I have seen several chassis numbers suggested over the years (0404MD, 0406MD, 0428M...), but all these are wrong. Dominguez car was likely built upon the remains of the Ferrari "Autodromo" Spider raced by Ascari in Monza in 1953. Ascari tried to brake but accidentally stepped on the central throttle hitting Bianca Maria Piazza's Ferrari, bouncing to the right, going off track, uphill through the wild full steam and finally flipping over. Rescue team was met by unharmed Ascari who reputedly said that until that day he did not have a boulevard to honor his name.


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Tubes don't get dented when you stamp new numbers on a tag. The big question always pops into mind: is there something underneath?

 

I wonder if there’s an insurance coverage/policy for each number ?
You know, just in case.
And could one make a separate claim for each in case of one accident ?

 

Swiss one.

Marcel Massini

 

beautiful colour!!

Antoine who posted the picture made me visit the Carrozzeria last summer, he is really welcoming and knows perfectly the cars he’s working on ! No doubt if I ever need a restoration I’ll go to them! (In fact I need one but on a classic British car that isn’t worth half of the price of a bare metal restoration )

 

Great photo by David Benoit.

Does anyone know what 0856 sold for?
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Mish mash fake.

 

At diner in Santa Monica, walked out to see this:

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Your dinner must have been seriously bad!
This is a genuine FAKE.

Marcel Massini

 

the dinner was good, but not the wine