Friday's Ferrari

This car was driven by Tony Dron in the 1950s Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

It's the Fantuzzi-bodied 1959 Ferrari Dino 246 S of Harry Leventis, chassis #0784, with a 2,417cc V6 engine. The car originally had a body resembling the 3 litre V12 engined Ferrari 250 TR, but at the end of the 1960 season when the car was sold to Luigi Chinetti he had the body replaced with this one.

On 7 July 2017 I showed a photograph of this car at Donington Park in 2003.

Friday's Ferrari

I photographed this car in the paddock at Donington Park at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting in June 2003.

It's not listed in the programme of the event and I don't recall whether or not it took part in any of the races, but it's the 1959 Ferrari Dino 246 S of Harry Leventis, chassis #0784. The car has a 2,417cc V6 engine and the body was fashioned by Carrozzeria Fantuzzi. The barchetta.cc record doesn't show this car as appearing at this Donington Park meeting, but in April of 2003 Tony Dron drove the car in a Ferrari Maserati Challenge race at Spa where it had the race number 71. Harry Leventis drove his 1964 Ferrari Dino 206 SP in the Shell Historic Ferrari Maserati Challenge race at Donington, so it's possible that Tony Dron also drove the 246 S here.

Friday's Ferrari

At the Silverstone Historic meetings I went to in the 1990s and early 2000s David Piper was usually present with a few of his stable of Ferraris. The photographs below show the cars he took along to the Historic Festival meeting of 2001.

1967 Ferrari 330P4, serial number 0822

1964 Ferrari 330P2, serial number 0836

1964 Ferrari 365P, serial number 0824

1967 Ferrari Dino 246S

1964 Ferrari 275LM, serial number 8165

The photograph below, which I took at the 1965 Tourist Trophy race at Oulton Park, is presumably of the same car, although at that time it was labelled a 250LM. The Wikipedia entry for Ferrari says:

'Only the very early LM's were true 250 models, with all the rest made as 3300cc models and as such should have been named 275 LM (the early cars were also converted to the 3300cc engine).'

Correction: The car in the 1965 Tourist Trophy race in 1965 was 5897, now owned by Englebert Stieger.