Venezuelan Mystery Boano

Pics on the right are of a Maserati 3500GT.

 

0745GT. Remains for sale in Italy 2015.

 

Nope, this must be 0687GT when owned by Joe Harth.

 

If the photos in post #1 were taken in 1987 and if they show 0687 GT as suggested in post #4, then here is a photo showing 0687 GT just one year later, in 1988, in Venezuela.
Hard to imagine.

Marcel Massini

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Copyright notice snipped off. 1988 must be based on a guess, and not a very good one.

 

#0687GT :
http://www.pasionalavelocidad.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=401

#0745GT :
http://www.pasionalavelocidad.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=589

 

Anyone know about the Series I PF coupe?

john

 

Yes, I do.

Indeed, the 250 GT Boanao was Joe Harth's car as he brought it to the U.S. in that condition. The story went that it was "jungle find" with snakes living in it when it was uncovered.

I worked for Ed Waterman at Motorcar Gallery at the time (must have been around 2006-07) when the car
arrived from Venezuela via Panama in a container and in really rough shape.

Ed sold the car to Tom Shaughnessy who was going to set about restoring the car. Last I saw Shaughnessy
had it on display at one of the Monterrey Weekend events (likely Concorso Italiano). I would reach out
to Shaughnessy as he either still has the car or would likely know its current whereabouts.

BHW

 

I think you confuse with 0529GT, which is easy to understand as it did look pretty much the same and was also a Joe Harth car.

 

Either way, Joe Harth's cars usually end up going through Ed Waterman one way or
another.

Pretty certain that's the Boano though, I dealt with the car off loading from container, in storage
and ultimately when it went to California.

BHW

 

The car we had was 1956 250 GT Boano #0529.

Here is a link to my images of the car on Barchetta.cc. as it arrived and images
by Peter Singhof how it appeared at Cavallino in 2015.

Quite a transformation.

http://www.barchetta.cc/english/All.Ferraris/Detail/0529GT.250GT.Boano.htm

The way the story went, Ferrari was happy to sell their cars to South American countries a
and did so quite a lot. The problem became when the cars needed service or parts, they
were nearly impossible to source and even if you could find parts, finding someone to
put them on was another issue entirely.

So, many owners simply rolled their cars into the jungle to sit only to be uncovered
forty years later. This wasn't the only car we received from Venezuela during this
period.

BHW

 

...or were converted to simple -and cheap- US-V8-power!
South America -and in particular Brazil and Venezuela- are the "Black Holes" for all historians. No proper photo archive from (period) newspapers and/or magazines is/are existing. And if you find a photo -most on the IT- then these are quite fuzzy and terrible quality.
The current desperate situation in Venezuela doesn`t help either....

 

my father and his brother owned a boano in caracas for a bit. not sure how many boanos made their way through caracas? I suspect...only one.

 

The car is currently in italy ando has being there from 1988 is fully restored , belongs to a friend of mine, who is it currently selling it ..

 

lets see some pictures!!!!

 

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this car looks like #0743 that had different tail lamps installed?

can u confirm the car above serial pls?

 

This is 0687 GT.
Using 250 GTE engine 3859 GT.
Original engine 0687 GT went into 0534 MD.

Marcel Massini

 

Nonsense. . I have seeing the car and has matching numbers ..

 

O743 was imported from South Africa , is a different car all together , 0743 had a black interiour for a start , and lived in South Africa.

 

Tony Franco installed back the original engine back in 0687 from 0534 MD stored at is garage in modena in very poor state in 1999 .

 

Interesting wording.
You may want to post a current photo of the engine number.

Marcel Massini

 

Will will do in Sept when I go and see the car again . For sure Tony Franco has put the engine back on .. the two cars where side by side funny enough .

 

The real question is, why does it have a modified back in the first place. Is it an original feature ?