Friday's Ferrari

I came across this car in one of the pit garages at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

It's a Ferrari Dino SP from the early 1960s but it didn't take part in the meeting and isn't mentioned in the programme of the event. The Ferrari Dino SP was the first mid-engine car built by Ferrari and only six chassis were produced, but with five different engine configurations, the cars being modified and converted to different specifications several times. The cars followed the Ferrari convention at that time of the model number being based on the size of the engine and the number of cylinders so the five different models were:

Ferrari 246 SP, 2,417 cc Tipo 171S Dino V6 engine.

Ferrari 196 SP, 1,984 cc Tipo 190 Dino V6 engine

Ferrari 286 SP, 2,863 cc Dino V6 engine

Ferrari 248 SP, 2,459 cc Tipo 199 V8 engine

Ferrari 268 SP, 2,645 cc Tipo 202 V8 engine

The six cars were chassis numbers 0790, 0796, 0798, 0802, 0804 and 0806, and the cars were all very similar in looks which makes it difficult to identify the one pictured above, but it's not 0798 because this car was then owned by Bernie Carl and was also at this meeting where it was driven in the Shell Ferrari Historical Challenge Race by Gregor Fisken: