Friday's Ferrari

This is a car I photographed at Silverstone in July 1998 at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting which took part in the Pre-72 Le Mans Car Race.

It's a 1971 Ferrari 512M, serial number 1024, owned at the time by Ed Davies of Florida, USA. The 512M was a modified version of the 512S and www.barchetta.cc says this about the 'M':

'For the 1971 season, Ferrari concentrated on their 312 P(B) sports prototype, and left the 512 entries to the privateers, although they did offer a revised more aerodynamic body package, which had first appeared on the Kyalami winning car in late 1970. This was called the “M” package, “Modificato” or modified, featuring a more wedge shape flatter profile, and all cars converted to this form were coupés. In the USA the Roger Penske team developed their own 512 M, chassis # 1040, which was the quickest 512 of all time, but like the regular cars didn’t meet with much overall success, with no 512 victories during the season. Late in 1971 chassis # 1010 was fitted with a 7 litre engine and converted to run in the American CanAm series. It managed a 4th place at Watkins Glen driven by Mario Andretti, before the car was sold to the NART organisation.'