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Friday 24 August 2018

Friday's Ferrari

This is a car I photographed at the Donington Park Museum in March 1996.
It's the car that started the Donington Grand Prix Collection, a 1949 Ferrari 125, chassis #114. Originally a works race car it was bought by Peter Whitehead in 1951, the first time that Enzo Ferrari had sold a Grand Prix car to a private owner. It was designed by Valerio Colotti with Gioacchino Colombo's 1,497cc supercharged V12 engine. Donington Park owner Tom Wheatcroft bought the car in 1964 and completely restored it after it had spent time in Australia and at one point had a Chevrolet V8 engine.

I've previously shown photographs of the car on 7 February 2014 and 23 December 2016.

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