1967 Ferrari 330P4

I took this photograph at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992 where there was a special display of Ferraris in the paddock numbered 1 to 32, and a page in the programme of the event gave details of each of the cars.

This is what the note in the programme said about the car:

'24  330 P4

Mid-engined V12; 4 litres; 450bhp at 8000; Twin ohc per bank; 3 valves per cylinder; Lucas fuel injection; all round independent suspension, double wishbones/coil springs. Final development of the 330 P series cars. Intended for use by the works teams they entered racing in the Daytona Continental 24 Hour race on February 4/5 1967. The two that were entered came 1st and 2nd. They proved to be the mainstay of the Ferrari effort in prototype racing that year but it was close run with Ferrari scoring 34 points to the 32 gathered by Porsche.'

The car was apparently built by David Piper using an engine and a collection of other parts sold to him by Enzo Ferrari together with a set of plans for the Ferrari 330P4 chassis, and he was allowed to give it the chassis number 900. It apparently has the body from 330P4 chassis 0860.