Friday's Ferrari

This was one of the cars in the special Ferrari display at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.

Numbered 31 in the list of display cars in the programme of the event it's a 1965 Ferrari 250 LM, which should indicate a 3 litre engine, but since all but the first example of the model (which did have the 2,953cc V12 Colombo engine) had the 3,286cc version of that engine it should really be referred to as a 275 LM. At the time of this race meeting the car was thought to be chassis #6023, the car that won the 1964 Angola Grand Prix, but it has since been found that it is #6313, the car that finished in second place in the 1965 Le Mans 24 Hour Race. Both cars were owned by Ecurie Francorchamps during that period, and it's thought that at some stage the chassis tags were swapped over to match a relevant travel carnet when crossing borders. Photographic evidence was used to rectify this just a few years ago.