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Showing posts with label Kerry Manolas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kerry Manolas. Show all posts

Friday, 2 August 2024

Friday's Ferrari

I took this photograph at Luffield Corner during the Historic Grand Prix Cars Association Sports Car Race at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.
It's the 1959 Ferrari Dino196S of Kerry Manolas which has a 1,984cc V6 engine and is chassis #0776S. It's the only example of this model produced and was originally owned by Luigi Chinetti, for whom the Rodriguez brothers Pedro and Ricardo drove the car in the 12 Hours of Sebring Race, the Targa Florio and the Nürburgring 1000km Race in 1960. They were 7th in the Targa Florio but failed to finish the other two races. It was driven in the race by Spencer Martin.

Friday, 1 September 2023

1959 Ferrari Dino 196S

This was one of the competitors in the Historic Grand Prix Cars Association Sports Car Race at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.
It's the 1959 Ferrari Dino 196S of Kerry Manolas which has a 1,984cc V6 engine and is chassis #0776S. It's the only example of this model produced and was originally owned by Luigi Chinetti, for whom the Rodriguez brothers Pedro and Ricardo drove the car in the 12 Hours of Sebring Race, the Targa Florio and the Nürburgring 1000km Race in 1960. They were 7th in the Targa Florio but failed to finish the other two races.

Friday, 18 February 2022

Friday's Ferrari

This car competed in the Historic Grand Prix Cars Association Sports Car Race at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.
It's Kerry Manola's 1960 Ferrari 196S Dino, chassis #0776S, that was driven in the race by Spencer Martin. The car is similar to the Ferrari TR59/60 but has a 1,984cc V6 engine instead of the TR59/60's 2,953cc V12 unit.

Monday, 29 March 2021

1957 Maserati 300S

This car took part in the Champagne Charles Heidsieck Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1993.
It's the 1957 Maserati 300S, chassis #3074 of Australian Kerry Manolas that was driven in the race by Stephen Griswold. The Maserati 300S was powered by a 2,991cc 6-cylinder engine that was based on the 2½ litre unit of the 250F Grand Prix car with a longer stroke, and took part in the World Sportscar Championship between 1955 and 1957. The car was originally bought by Brazilian driver Antonio Mendes de Barros and stayed in South America till the 1970s when it was acquired by Australian Bruce Spicer, then via Bob Jane and John R Sheppard to Kerry Manolas. In 1994 it was bought by Mark Knopfler.

Friday, 12 February 2016

Friday's Ferrari

This car was one of the competitors in the Louis Vuitton '50s Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995.
It's the 1959 Ferrari 196 S Dino of Kerry Manolas, driven in the race by Matthew Martin. The serial number is 0776, and according to barchetta.cc is the only 196 S Dino to be built. The official Ferrari description of the model says that it had a 2 litre V6 engine, but the programme of the event shows the engine capacity as 2485cc.