I took this photograph at the Donington Park Museum in September 2014.
This is the last of the Ferrari Thin Wall Special cars, which were Ferrari Formula 1 cars modified by Tony Vandervell by using his own thin wall engine bearings. The car was based on the 4,494cc V12 1950 Ferrari 375 Grand Prix car, but used the longer chassis of the Ferrari 375 Indianapolis car. The car didn't achieve any great success, but paved the way for Tony Vandervell's own Vanwall car in which Stirling Moss narrowly failed to win the 1958 Drivers' World Championship, but which won the first ever Constructors' Championship that year for Tony Vandervell. Below is the board that was alongside the car at Donington Park.
I've shown photographs of this car twice previously, on 14 February 2014 and 9 June 2017.
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