Friday's Ferrari

This is a photograph I took at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992 which featured 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.

The car in the centre is a 1953 Ferrari 375 MM which has a 4,523cc V12 engine designed by Aurelio Lampredi and is chassis #0366AM. The programme of the event says this about the car:

'375 MM Scaglietti

Originally a PF Spyder, this car was rebodied by Scaglietti, probably in 1954/55. It is the only 375 MM ever produced with bodywork by Scaglietti. Raced in Swedish GPs of 1954 and '56, finishing second in '56.'

The car on the left with a number 17 in the windscreen is a 1951 Ferrari 340 MM, chassis #0082A, and is the car with which Luigi Villoresi and Piero Cassani won the 1951 Mille Miglia. On the right with a number 18 is a 1953 Ferrari 250 MM Panamericana, which at various times has had the chassis numbers #0292MM, #0239EU and #0352MM, all to move the car in and out of Italy without paying duty or getting an import permit.

Friday's Ferrari

Today's car is one from the Ferrari feature at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992. It's a Ferrari 250MM Panamericana.

Here's what the programme had to say about the car:

'Front engined V12; 3 litres; 240bhp at 7200rpm; ifs/wishbones-coil spring; rigid axle rear/semi-elliptic leaf springs. Introduced 1952 Paris Show. 33 built. Mostly Pininfarina berlinettas or Vignale spyders. Mainly used in competition by private entrants. This car, then with a 2.6 litre engine, was driven by Ruiz Echevarria & Villegas Becerril in the 1952 Carrera Panamericana. It was later brought to 250MM specification by the factory.'

Note April 2015: The serial number of this car is 0239EU.