Vintage Ferrari Tool Kits And Accessories

Good question.

I think that all road 250s (odd serial number cars) got a tool kit.

But I don’t know which was the very first to do so.

Matt

 

Dyke, Shaughnessy and Ed Niles might be good sources.

 

I know that, in the mid-1950s the Lampredi-engined competition cars had tool kits in a wooden box (which included the special tool for depressing the mouse-trap valve springs), as well as an early form of a quick-jack.

 

Colombo cars as well.

 

There is a thread on tool kits by Shaughnessy somewhere.

One thing that seems to get forgotten are the hazard warning triangles

 

The first manual showing tool kits was the spare parts catalog for the 250 Granturismo, published ~1949. This shows both a toolkit for the car along with a wood boxed kit for the engine. This covered the 250 V-12 models before the 250 GTE was introduced.

None of the owner's manuals published earlier have a toolkit in them.
Here are some of the wood boxed engine toolkits.

 

Kerry, are you sure about that publishing year ?

 

My information comes from Richard Merritt's book of Operating, Maintenance and Service Books which has reprints of 6 early manuals.

In the table of contents, Dick says that this particular manual is for all V-12 models approximately 1954-1959 except for the 410 Superamerica. So the date was not 1949, but 1954, sorry. However, for the GTE manual, he says 1959-1963, but that manual wasn't published until 1961.