Friday's Ferrari

This is a car I photographed at the Donington Park Museum in March 1996.

It's the car that started the Donington Grand Prix Collection, a 1949 Ferrari 125, chassis #114. Originally a works race car it was bought by Peter Whitehead in 1951, the first time that Enzo Ferrari had sold a Grand Prix car to a private owner. It was designed by Valerio Colotti with Gioacchino Colombo's 1,497cc supercharged V12 engine. Donington Park owner Tom Wheatcroft bought the car in 1964 and completely restored it after it had spent time in Australia and at one point had a Chevrolet V8 engine.

I've previously shown photographs of the car on 7 February 2014 and 23 December 2016.

Friday's Ferrari

This photograph taken at the Donington Grand Prix Collection (now known as the Donington Grand Prix Exhibition) in May 1989 is of a 1949 Ferrari 125. The car (serial number 114), once owned by Peter Whitehead, was bought by Tom Wheatcroft in 1964 and was the first of what was to become an extensive collection of Grand Prix machinery, eventually being opened to the public in 1973.

This is another photograph of the car, taken in October 1989