Friday's Ferrari

This is a photograph that I took at the Ferrari display at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting in July 1997.

On the left is the Ferrari 312 T4, chassis #040, with which Jody Scheckter won the World Championship in 1979. The board in front of the middle car says that it is a 1954 Ferrari 500 Mondial and was a factory team car which was used in the Mille Miglia and the Supercortemaggiore race, probably chassis #0414MD. On the right is a 1970 Ferrari712 CanAm Spyder, originally a 512S Spyder it was converted to a 712 CanAm Spyder in 1971. Owned in 1997 by Paul Osborne, it's chassis #1010.

Friday's Ferrari

This car took part in two rounds of the Shell Ferrari Historical Challenge series of races at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.

It's the 1962 Ferrari 268SP of Bernie Carl and was driven in the races by Gregor Fisken. The car is chassis #0798 and was built in February 1962 as a Ferrari 248SP but by April of that year the engine had been modified to 268SP specifications, which involved increasing the 2,459cc V8 engine to 2,645cc. It was driven in the 1962 Le Mans 24 Hour race by Giancarlo Baghetti and Ludovico Scarfiotti but retired with clutch problems after 18 hours. The number 21 car behind the 268SP is another car that competed in those races. The programme of the event shows it to be a 1954 Ferrari 750 Monza, entered by Paul Osborn and to be driven in the race by Tony Dron. It's got the entrant and driver correct, but it's actually a 1954 Ferrari 500 Mondial, chassis number #0468MD. This car has the Aurelio Lampredi designed 4-cylinder inline 1,984cc engine.

Friday's Ferrari

This car competed in the Shell Ferrari Historical Challenge race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.

It's the 1954 Ferrari 500 Mondial of Geoffrey Williams with a 4-cylinder inline 1,985cc engine designed by Aurelio Lampredi and body by Scaglietti. It is chassis #0454MD and was originally provided for US racing driver Bob Said. It was sold in 1955 to Tony Palmer-Morewood and remained in the USA - at one point with a Chevrolet engine - until the early 1990s when it came to the UK and was acquired by Geoffrey Williams.

Friday's Ferrari

This car competed in the Shell Ferrari Historical Challenge race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.

It's the 1954 Ferrari 500 Mondial of Geoffrey Williams with a 4-cylinder inline 1,985cc engine designed by Aurelio Lampredi and body by Scaglietti. It is chassis #0454MD and was originally provided for US racing driver Bob Said. It was sold in 1955 to Tony Palmer-Morewood and remained in the USA - at one point with a Chevrolet engine - until the early 1990s when it came to the UK and was acquired by Geoffrey Williams.

Friday's Ferrari

This car took part in the Louis Vuitton 1950s Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.

It's the Scaglietti-bodied 1955 Ferrari 500 Mondial Series 1 of Thomas Mittler and has a twin overhead camshaft 4-cylinder inline 1,985cc engine designed by Aurelio Lampredi. That engine is a detuned version of the engine of the Ferrari 500 F2 car that won the 1952 and 1953 World Drivers' Championship for Alberto Ascari. Thomas Mittler's car is chassis 0474MD and was originally provided new to John von Neumann of California.

Friday's Ferrari

This is a photograph taken inside one of the pit garages at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.

The nearest car is a 3 litre V12 1967 Ferrari 312, chassis number 003 67, driven by Chris Amon that season. It's not listed in the programme of the event as having taken part in any of the races at this meeting. The other three cars here all competed in the Shell Ferrari Historical Challenge race. Car number 51 on the right of the 312 is Terry Jones' 2.4 litre V6 1959 Ferrari 246S, chassis 0778, number 21 is Paul Osborn's 2 litre 4 in-line 1954 Ferrari 500 Mondial, chassis 0468MD, driven in the race by Tony Dron, and number 52 is Bernie Carl's 2.5 litre V8 1962 Ferrari 268SP, chassis 0798, driven by Gregor Fisken.

Friday's Ferrari

This car competed in the Shell Ferrari Historical Challenge race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.

The programme of the event shows it to be a 1954 Ferrari 750 Monza, entered by Paul Osborn and to be driven in the race by Tony Dron. It's got the entrant and driver correct, but it's actually a 1954 Ferrari 500 Mondial, chassis number 0468MD.

Friday's Ferrari

This is a photograph of a car in the pit garage at Donington Park at the Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting in June 2003.

It's a 1955 series 2 Ferrari 500 Mondial, serial number 0536MD, and you can read about it on this Kidston Cars website. At the Donington Park meeting it was entered in the Shell Historic Ferrari Maserati Challenge race by the Belgian owner Jan Biekens (although the programme entry says that he's from the Netherlands).

Friday's Ferrari

Today's photograph is one taken at the Ferrari Owners Club area at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1994.

The car on the right is a 1951 Ferrari 340MM and the one on the left has the looks of a Ferrari 750 Monza or a 500 Mondial from the mid-1950s, but is possibly a replica.

Note April 2015: barchetta.cc says that the car on the right is a 1951 Ferrari 340 America Coupe Vignale, serial number 0082A.

Friday's Ferrari

Last Friday's Ferrari was a Series 2 Ferrari Mondial and today's car is the earlier Series 1 version, seen here at the 1997 Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone. The board in front of the car says that it is a 1954 Ferrari 500 Mondial and was a factory team car which was used in the Mille Miglia and the Supercortemaggiore race. The Ferrari Mondial site which I highlighted last week seems to indicate that this car is chassis 0414MD, about which it has this to say:

0414MD was a Ferrari 500 Mondial with Pinin Farina Spyder coachwork and a Scuderia Ferrari Team Car, raced in The Giro di Toscana by Paolo Marzotto and Marino Marini (dnf), in the Mille Miglia by Enzo Neri and Alberto Neri (dnf) and in the GP Supercortemaggiore.

Friday's Ferrari

Today's car is a Ferrari 500 Mondial pictured at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 2001. The Mondial was outwardly similar to the 750 Monza, but had a smaller 4 cylinder 2 litre engine and was produced from early 1954 to August 1955. This is one of the later models and is painted in the American racing colours. I've found a site here which features this particular car, serial number 0454MD, and which has this to say about it:

0454MD was a Ferrari 500 Mondial Series I Spyder with Scaglietti coachwork, delivered to US citizen Bob Said. Bob raced the Mondial in Europe. The car was sold to American Tony Palmer-Morewood, he raced it in the States and in Venezuela. 

The car was in the Ferrari Owners Club area and the photograph below shows several other Ferraris which were on display that day.