Friday's Ferrari

This is a photograph that I took at the British International Motor Show at Earls Court, London in October 1962.

It's a 1962 Ferrari 400 Superamerica Coupé Series 2 Aerodinamica which was unveiled to the public at this Show. It was powered by the Gioacchino Colombo designed Ferrari Tipo 137 3,967cc V12 engine and 32 of these cars were built between 1962 and 1964 - this car is chassis #3931SA.

Friday's Ferrari

This is a car I photographed at the London Motor Show at Earls Court in October 1963.

It's a Ferrari 250 LM, serial number 5149, and the official Ferrari website says that the car was introduced at the Paris Motor Show in October 1963, which must have been in the early part of that month as the London show ran from 16th to 26th of October. The Wikipedia website says this about the 250 LM:

250 LM

The mid-engined 250 Le Mans looked every bit the prototype racer but was intended to be produced as a road-going GT. Descended from the 250 P, the Le Mans also appeared in 1963 and sported Pininfarina bodywork. Ferrari was unable to persuade the FIA that he would build the 100 examples required to homologate the car for GT racing. Eventually, 32 LMs were built up to 1965. As a result, Ferrari withdrew from factory participation in the GT class of the 1965 World Sportscar Championship, allowing the Shelby Cobra team to dominate the class. 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)

Friday's Ferrari

This is another car which I photographed at the 1962 London Motor Show at the Earls Court exhibition centre. It's a Ferrari 250 GTO and I've found this information about that particular car on a website called finemodelcars.com:

Ferrari 250 GTO Chassis No. 3869GT

3869GT left the factory on October 8th 1962, painted red with an Oxford blue nose, it was delivered to Col. Ronnie Hoare/Maranello Concessionaires, UK. Chassis number 3869 was the London Motor Show Car. In 1963 Ron Fry became the new owner, he won many hillclimbs and sprint races. In December 1964 Karl Richardson bought the GTO and raced it in 1965 at Mont Ventoux hillclimb (3rd IC), Ollon-Villars hillclimb (4th IC) and at the Brighton & Hove MC Brighton Speed Trials (3rd IC).




Here's the barchetta.cc history of 3869GT.

London Motor Show 1962

Here's a photograph which I took at the London Motor Show in 1962. I didn't use a flash on the camera and as the Earls Court exhibition centre wasn't very well lit the quality of most of the photographs I took that day isn't brilliant.

This car is a design by Pio Manzu based on an Austin Healey 3000, and this is what the website autodesign.socialblog.us has to say about the car:

More than 40 years ago a young Italian designer, Pio Manzù, outlined the needs and guidelines for an harmonius development of individual mobility with a system of private and public transport. Four decades later his vision has not been implemented yet. It was not his fault. Arch. Enrico Leonardo Fagone, has presented his lecture on Pio Manzù and has agreed to share it with us. I am sure you will not miss a single line of his presentation. Giancarlo Perini.

PIO MANZU’ PIONEER OF CAR AND TRANSPORTATION DESIGN.

In the world of design, and car design in particular, many still remember the contribution of Pio Manzù, a young designer with an international trai­ning who died in a car accident in May 1969.

The son of the famous sculptor Giacomo Manzù,  Pio Manzoni (Manzù) was born in 1939 in Bergamo and after high school in Italy, he joined the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm.

The school, founded by Max Bill, gave a new relevance to the teachings and methods of the Bauhaus. Before graduation, together with classmates Michael Conrad and Henner Werner, the young Manzù won a prestigious international competition held by the Année Automobile. The prize consisted in the execution of their own design (based on the bones of the Austin Healey 3000 mechanicals) to be built by Pininfarina in 1962. The prototype was first exhibited that year at the London Motor Show.

You can see the complete article about Pio Manzu here.