Facourite Ferrari

[Peter Mallett]

GT, Sports car, prototype, road car or formula car. What's yours?

[yelwoci]

Mine happens to be one of the slowest...probably safest for me!
246GTS Dino

IanC

[jarama]

¿Only one?. This is indeed a hard job. Maybe the 250GTO/62.

[Peter Mallett]

Very informative you two. How about telling us why then?

BTW. I meant favourite not "facourite"!!!

Craig where's that new smellchecker?

[TimD]

The smellchecker fell foul of the worm processor.

My favourite Ferrari? The 250GT SWB.

Particularly Stirling Moss' TT winning car, royal blue with Rob Walker's white stripe on the nose. Not sure why - perhaps because red Ferraris are a bit obvious for me, perhaps because my first Matchbox car as a toddler was a green 250GT Berlinetta with cast "wire" wheels, perhaps because of the anecdote about Stirling not trusting the pitboards, so he tuned the radio in the fully road-equipped car to listen to Raymond Baxter's commentary while he was racing.

Honourable mentions also for
250GT "Breadvan"
GTO Drogo special
750 Monza - such a pretty car

[Peter Mallett]

bugger. That's my favourite!!!

[marcus]

ohh very hard question ....favorite road cars would be 308 GTS..just loved magnum PI..and an F40 simply stunning.

F1 car probably 1994 car ..just looked great and so did the 1990..but I think I liked that more for the way Nige drove it

[Mackmot]

I love the 360 it is the most gorgeous car Ive ever been in.

[Gerard]

The most beautiful Ferrari in my opinion is the Ferrari 250 Le Mans, designed by Pininfarina.
It's a GT car which was very rarely seen on the road.
Optical as well as technical it was very advanced with its tunnel roof which caused a down pressure. (sorry, Im not that technical and don't know the English words to accurately describe it).

But the Ferrari with the nicest story is the Ferrari 250 GTO from 1962.
In that year the FIA declared the GT-Championship an official Sports Car Championship.
One of the rules said the car must have been produced in a series of at least 100 vehicles.
Ferrari didn't have the time and the intention to produce that many cars and he simply used a 250 GT Short Wheel Base car as a starting point because the FIA allowed minor changes to an already excisting model.
Ferrari renewed the chassis with the help of Giotto Bizzarrini and changed the frame and the axles (?) and fooled the FIA by telling them those were minor changes.
When the car was approved Ferrari promptly added an 'O' to the 250 GT for 'omologato.'

[Neil C]

Originally posted by Peter Mallett
bugger. That's my favourite!!!

Yes, I've alway liked the Ferrari Buggers too, especially in yellow.

[elephino]

Road car - 288 GTO. Not sure why really, I just like it.

F1 car - 1994 with the tear drop air intakes

Overall foavourite - 250 GTO

[Florian Lacroix]

Road Car : 456 Gt or testarossa
Race Car : the actual F1
the worst : 400i

[Marshal]

And no one mentioned the '67 330 P4? If I have to explain why then there is no helping you!

And for the road a Daytona Spider, I know just the one, its been in garage just outside Guildford (Bramley) for at least the past 6 years. Anyone lend me a million or so?

Finally a '62 250 GTO, just for special occasions.

[Peter Mallett]

Originally posted by Marshal
And no one mentioned the '67 330 P4? If I have to explain why then there is no helping you!

Go on then. Explain!!!

And for the road a Daytona Spider, I know just the one, its been in garage just outside Guildford (Bramley) for at least the past 6 years. Anyone lend me a million or so?

Spider?? The GT was much sexier!!!

Finally a '62 250 GTO, just for special occasions.

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What do you think of the 250 GT SWB then. To me a much more usable piece of kit. And so much better looking.

[TimD]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peter Mallett

Originally posted by Marshal

Spider?? The GT was much sexier!!!

Well, I can't say I've any experience of the Spider, but the Coupe drives like a bus.

Admittedly, a very, very fast bus, but nonetheless....

I'll stick with the Aston.

[Diabando]

I actually had to go away and give this some serious consideration... and my first and final answer will be:

F360

*nods*

[Marshal]

The 330 P4, has to have the most senuous curves of any specialist racing car (maybe the XJ13 came close but this is about Ferrari's.

As for the Daytona Spider, it maybe a bus, but its a bus I've wanted since I was six, so I can't help that, and I do happen to think the Spider is prettier than the Coupe.

As for 250's, GTO or SWB, I just think the GTO is a much finer looking car, and I'm looking foward to seeing loads of them at Coys in a couple of weeks time.