Not avoiding anything. I just cannot remember 34 years later and after having seen ten thousands of Ferraris since. Really very sorry. Marcel Massini
I was only pulling your leg Marcel but going from transverse to longitudinal was a dramatic leap from the 328 to the 288 and I thought that would have stuck in your memory more than whether the engine had a carb or was injected thats all.
after a long search, I found and talked in person with all this guys related with the "yellow" 47649: The one that got it from Ferrari, the one that was the first owner, the one that did the first road test with the yellow livery. They are three different guys. And the story is a bit different than reported on various internet sites. I'm trying to do a small chapter about the whole story on my book I thank everyone here as you all together raised my curiosity about the story of that car and so I made some moves to learn what happened. ciao
This one is prototype No.1, the carbed one. It never became a 288 GTO: It died as you see it. Then it was replaced by another car: the well known car designed by Nicola Materazzi, that is the one we know. This one was not a "Materazzi's daughter": it was the "Bellei" car. So this one is just a mule, then aborted: first idea of a GTO. You can see it in the first schetch here below. But the 288 GTO we know is not this one: it was an aborted project. Then Materazzi became the project leader and erased this car, starting a new one. ciao P.S. the picture doesn't come from my book but from an official Ferrari De Agostini book Image Unavailable, Please Login
Forgive me for following up on a thread from over 12 years ago. I was looking for info on the yellow prototype. Thank you to all concerned about that. In regards to the 4 x 288 GTO’s converted for the Brunei Royal Family - all 4 were made RHD. Paolo Garella has confirmed this and I’ve seen photos of all 4. The red one clearly has its wipers now going to the right as you look at it from the front, there’s photos of Paolo sitting in the blue one, and the slate grey one is also clearly now a right hooker. There’s copious footage of the black one which I think now resides in the UK Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login