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

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.