This car is listed in the programme of the event as a reserve for the Shell Ferrari Historical Challenge race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.
It's the 1972 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 C of Carlos Monteverde and was due to be driven in the race by David Franklin. The 365 GTB/4 C is a competition version of the GTB/4 with an aluminium body and the Gioacchino Colombo designed 4,390cc V12 engine is specially tuned to give 400 bhp. Carlos Monteverde's car is chassis #15667 and is the eighth of the fifteen competition cars that were built. The car was originally acquired by Charles Pozzi who entered it for the 1972 Le Mans 24 Hour race where it was driven by Claude Ballot-Léna and Jean-Claude Andruet, finishing in fifth place overall and winning the GTS class.
I saw this car race at Le Mans in 1972, quite an unforgettable memory.
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