Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 11 i Enzo

The spectacular roads of Provence and Luberon echoed to the sounds of Ferraris from across the generations for the latest running of the Padre-Figlio regularity rally. A richly varied entry list is virtually guaranteed for this event, with only one example of each model permitted. So it proved, with everything from an early-1960s 250 GT/E to a488 Pista. Uniquely, ownership of a Prancing Horse isn’t the only condition of entry: each driving team has to comprise a father-son line-up – hence padre-figlio in Italian. Some 35 cars took part, with entrants coming from all across Europe and from as far away as Tunisia and Palestine. The crews gathered for a welcome meal and team briefing on the Friday evening, before the event proper began on the Saturday morning. Driving loops…

‘Race-weathered’ Lucybelle II model by Amalgam £10,999 | amalgamcollection.com The 250 Testa Rossa known as Lucybelle II finished seventh at Le Mans in 1958, and this 1:8-scale model accurately reflects the appearance of the car post-race but pre-sponge, sporting 24 hours’ worth of French dirt. Jungle Bird shirt by Paradise Found $65 | alohashirtshop.com Essential kit for anybody planning to escape our grey isle for some winter sun, this is a perfect recreation of Magnum PI’s most famous Hawaiian shirt, a magnificent monstrosity that drew the eye even when sharing the screen with Magnum’s 308 GTS. F40 print by Mark Boyles From £100 | buzzartcollection.com To these eyes the F40 always looks best from behind, with that huge wing filling the frame, but here’s a reminder from artist Mark Boyles…

A photograph has been taken of a Ferrari. The subject looks as you would expect: red, handsome, built with obvious care, covetable. You’d love just to fall into its driving seat and roar off towards the horizon. But you can’t, unless you’re nine inches tall and somehow the engine has been made to function. This Ferrari is a 1/8-scale model, but without something else in the picture to give it a dimensional context you would hardly know. Welcome to the high-end world of the Amalgam Collection, maker of magnificent models of wonderful cars from multiple marques. With a particular fondness for Ferraris. Please now excuse an indulgence on my part. The pre-teenage me coveted, with a painful intensity, two other one-eighth-scale models, polystyrene construction kits by US company Monogram of…

Inspired. It’s the only word that does justice to the idea of a reborn Lancia Stratos based on a Ferrari F430. Think about it. Ferrari’s mid-engined supercar built between 2004 and 2009 is in plentiful supply, is blessed with a wickedly sharp engine, and treads that fine line between modern performance, control and excitement, and old-school involvement, feel and delicacy. To start with such a sound basis, shorten the wheelbase and then pour some Stratos styling fairy dust on top should result in something spectacularly agile, overwhelmingly evocative and effortlessly cool. This car might not be a pureblood, but I’m not sure I can think of a more exciting project anywhere in the world. The story of the reborn Stratos is long, winding and really rather extraordinary. It starts in…

It’s a whopper and no mistake. I mean, just look at that rear overhang. In combination with an almost comically large turning circle, the sheer size of the 365 GT 2+2 famously led one Road & Track wag to christen it the Queen Mary of Ferraris. And that wasn’t the only indignity that the big four-seater would suffer. In later years it often languished on used car lots, largely unloved, overshadowed by more overtly sporting contemporaries such as the Daytona and the mechanically similar 365 GTC and GTS models. Not so very long ago you could pick up a runner for as little as £30,000. In more recent times, the 365 GT 2+2 has been reappraised and values have climbed, but it still remains one of the more affordable 1960s…

I HAD NO IDEA THIS was going to happen. Motor magazine, for which I then worked, had recently rediscovered Paddy Nevin, the artist who used to do action sketches at races for the magazine before World War Two. At the end of 1987, writer and historian Doug Nye thought it would be a great idea to take Paddy to Donington Park, so Paddy could see how it had changed from pre-war days and maybe capture our visit on canvas to illustrate Doug’s story. This Paddy gleefully did, despite suffering from cataracts. Donington owner Tom Wheatcroft rose equally gleefully to the occasion and brought out a few cars from his collection, including Ferraris 125 and Squalo, plus a 312B from 1970. And, of course, they needed to be driven. I’m not…

THE MUGELLO CIRCUIT IN NORTHERN tuscany once again hosted the finali mondiali, ferrari’s end-of-season motorsport celebration, which on this occasion coincided with scuderia ferrari’s 90th year in competition and the 70th anniversary of ferrari’s first victory in the le mans 24 hours. there were some high spots in formula 1, including nine pole positions and three wins, but titles eluded the team in 2019. however, there was success at le mans, with the 488 winning the hard-fought lmgte pro class. Almost 30,000 enthusiasts packed the stands at mugello for the final day of the four-day extravaganza, which hosts the final and often deciding rounds of the european, asia pacific, and north american ferrari challenge championships. interspersed with these races were mouth-watering, nape-prickling sessions dedicated to clienti corsa cars, including classic…

‘Speculators have overlooked the potential of cars like the 360 Modena’ SCOTTSDALE, WHERE MOST of the action happens during January’s Arizona Auction Week, is a place where New Year’s resolutions go to die. Folks who have promised to eat more healthily and spend more carefully leave town full of chimichangas and towing a four-wheeled impulse buy. Barrett-Jackson is hoping to lead bidders into temptation by offering more cars – and more no-reserve cars – than ever before. it means to shift almost 2000, and the other auction houses are going to be seriously busy, too. As ever, individual lots could tell us as much about the state of the market as the overall results, and one of the cars prognosticators will be watching is the 1958 250 gT cabriolet Series…

As new car launches go, this is an unusual one. It starts with a walk down a slope between statues of naked athletes towards a vast temporary structure. We enter a long corridor and the sound of music builds into a familiar 1960s swing track with the melted caramel vocals of a classic crooner, maybe Dean Martin. Turning a corner, the space is revealed: dark, lit in red, and dressed like a vast nightclub. Projected onto the walls is a slideshow of black-and-white photos of ’60s Ferraris, screen gods and goddesses, and scenes of Rome. Crooners croon on until Enrico Galliera, Ferrari’s chief marketing and commercial officer, takes up the theme. He strolls through the place, reminiscing about how effortlessly cool Rome was in the late ’50s and early ’60s,…

A quiet, waterside car park in rural Leicestershire on a Monday morning. Photographer Dean Smith and I hear the complex howl of a flat-12 engine closing in and we both know it’s a Testarossa. Yet even after all these years, after we’ve been wowed by dozens more supercars, the moment the red wedge swings into view is unexpectedly exciting, sparking an almost child-like glee. Well, just look at it. Bright red, its flanks slashed by side-strakes, a huge slice of Maranello with impossibly wide hips… No question, the Testarossa has still got it, still drips star quality, even if it’s far from one of the rarest Ferraris. Production of all three generations totalled almost 10,000 cars, which makes the Testarossa by some margin the biggest seller among 12-cylinder Ferraris. Pretty…

Do you ever get those ‘don’t blind me with the facts’ moments? I am a regular sufferer, which may explain my many calamitous car purchases. A suspiciously cheap Lotus Esprit S3 sold by a dodgy looking bloke called Barry? What could possibly go wrong? Everything, as you have already doubtless surmised. But that was a while back. Far more recently, when I really should have known a very great deal better, I nearly got myself into so much hot water that the Esprit would have seemed a tepid teaspoon by comparison. It came about via the following infallible logic: I must own a Ferrari, this is a Ferrari, therefore I must own it. ‘It’ was a 308 GT4, which was for sale for, wait for it, £5000. And in the…

I expect that by now most of you will have seen the film Le Mans ’66, or Ford v Ferrari as it is called in the United States. If not, I’d recommend it highly for some of the performances, especially that of Christian Bale, a lot of the action and the beauty of the cars featured therein. Just not for its accuracy or, rather, its lack thereof Anyone expecting this film to be any kind of historical document is going to be sorely disappointed. There is no mention of Ford’s first drubbing at Le Mans by Ferrari in 1964, but apparently we are meant to believe that Fiat bought Ferrari in 1965, providing the Scuderia with the hitherto unimagined funds that made the 1966 race a fair and even fight.…

Thanks for all your entries to win a genuine ferrari overall, as worn by employees at the ferrari factory at Maranello. The winner is Vitor sousa, from Portugal, pictured right getting stuck into an extensive restoration of his 1994 456 GT. ‘My first ferrari was an 1988 ferrari Testarossa that I bought in Bristol and drove to Portugal,’ says Vitor. ‘I sold it in 2013 and bought the 456 GT. In february 2019 I started to take care of the 456: major service on the engine, dampers rebuilt, window mechanism rebuilt, interior redone with original Connolly leather… I hope to have the car ready around april, fingers crossed!’ Congratulations, Vitor! The overall is in the post. We also particularly liked the entries from Vern Cornell, standing proudly beside the engine…

THE FERRARI OWNERS’ CLUB of Great britain is set to do something completely new in 2020, as it’s going to put on its first ever event for all Ferrari owners, whether or not they’re a club member. The national Ferrari Owners’ Day at sywell aerodrome will take place on June 6 and will be open to anybody who turns up in a Ferrari The event will take place at sywell aerodrome in northamptonshire, where the club will occupy the grass airfield, hangar One, the runway and apron, plus The aviator hotel, which overlooks the aerodrome. with space to accommodate several thousand cars with ease, it is hoped that this will be the biggest gathering of Ferraris that the uK has ever seen. note that the day won’t be open to…

If you grew up in the 1980s, there’s a good chance you had the Testarossa poster on your wall, watched Miami Vice more for the white Testarossa than the plot, and spent too much pocket money playing Out Run at the arcade, the one with the convertible Testarossa. Scott Chivers certainly did. Unlike most of his generation, though, Scott went one step further and actually bought a Testarossa convertible. A 1987 left-handdrive model, imported from the US with 15,000 miles showing on the odo. And all for £16,000. Given Ferrari only ever produced one Testarossa convertible, you’d probably guess there’s a large caveat to this tale, even before you set eyes on Scott’s car. There’s certainly an extremely large caveat when Scott lifts his garage door to reveal the Testarossa…

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LaFerrari/LaFerrari Aperta (2013-17) Ferrari poured everything it knew into creating a new ultimate road car in the shape of the extraordinary, hybrid LaFerrari, its 789bhp V12 boosted by a KERS unit to deliver up to 950bhp. Just 500 were built, with production switching in 2016 to the open-top Aperta, of which 209 were to be made. LaFerrari: 6262cc V12 plus KERS, up to 950bhp, 217mph 488 GTB/Spider (2015-19) Continued the long line of mid-engined V8 cars stretching right back to the 308 GTB. What set the 488 apart was its downsized twin-turbo engine, part of the F154 family, also found in the Lusso T. 488 GTB: 3902cc V8 twin-turbo, 661bhp, 205mph GTC4 Lusso/Lusso T (2016-) Refresh for the FF was so comprehensive that Ferrari renamed its 4wd four-seater the GTC4…