Friday's Ferrari

The Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997 featured a tribute to Ferrari's 50th anniversary with a large display of cars.

This is one of the cars shown in a special display in the paddock, and it's a 1955 Ferrari 555 Super Squalo. After an unsuccessful season as a Ferrari team car it was fitted with a 3½ litre 860 Monza engine and used for Formula Libre racing in Australia and New Zealand, at which time the serial number, originally 555/1, was changed to FL/9001. Some years later a Chevrolet V8 engine was fitted, together with a Morris Minor body. Much more recently it was restored back to its original 1955 Super Squalo configuration and reunited with its original engine. The car to the left is a 1962 Ferrari 196 SP and to the right is a 1962 Ferrari 250GTO.