This car competed in a round of the Shell Ferrari Maserati Historic Challenge series of races at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2004 and is seen here leaving the pit lane during a practice session.
It's Swiss driver Conrad Ulrich's 1958 Ferrari 250 GT LWB Berlinetta, better known as the Tour de France, or TdF. Four different versions of the TdF were built between 1955 and 1959 and are identified by the number of louvres in the sail panel behind the side windows. Fourteen examples of the earliest model were produced, and these cars didn't have any louvres. The second version had fourteen louvres and nine of these were built, then seventeen cars were built with three louvres and lastly thirty-seven with one louvre. Conrad Ulrich's car, which is chassis #1141GT, is one of the one louvre models. All the cars have the Giaocchino Colombo designed 2,953cc V12 engine, and have Scaglietti designed bodies except for five of the Series One model where the bodies were designed by Zagato.
On 25 January 2019 I showed a photograph of the car stationary in the pit lane at this meeting.
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