Friday's Ferrari

I took this photograph at the Donington Park Museum in September 2014.

This is the last of the Ferrari Thin Wall Special cars, which were Ferrari Formula 1 cars modified by Tony Vandervell by using his own thin wall engine bearings. The car was based on the 4,494cc V12 1950 Ferrari 375 Grand Prix car, but used the longer chassis of the Ferrari 375 Indianapolis car. The car didn't achieve any great success, but paved the way for Tony Vandervell's own Vanwall car in which Stirling Moss narrowly failed to win the 1958 Drivers' World Championship, but which won the first ever Constructors' Championship that year for Tony Vandervell. Below is the board that was alongside the car at Donington Park.

I've shown photographs of this car twice previously, on 14 February 2014 and 9 June 2017.

Friday's Ferrari

I took this photograph at the Donington Park museum in September 2014.

It's the final version of Tony Vandervell's Ferrari Thin Wall Specials, a 1951 Ferrari 375 using Vandervell Product's own Thin-Wall bearings in the 4½ litre V12 engine. On 14 February 2014 I showed photographs of the car that I'd taken on earlier visits to the museum.

Friday's Ferrari

Another of the Ferraris in the Donington Grand Prix Collection in 1989 was the Ferrari 375 which Tony Vandervell ran in 1951 with a 4½ litre engine using his own thinwall bearings and known as the Thin Wall Special. The Ferrari serial number is 010. This is what it says about the Thin Wall Special in http://8w.forix.com/thinwall.html:

'Guy Anthony Vandervell had ordered a Ferrari Tipo 125 Grand Prix car to be used to prepare the team for the upcoming BRM car. The initially delivered Tipo 125 had a 1.5 liter supercharged V-12 and was raced by Raymond Mays and Ken Richardson in the 1949 International Trophy race. The car carried the “Thinwall Special”, named for Vandervell's bearing company. The car proved a handful and was crashed by Richardson. Vandervell returned the car to Ferrari and took delivery of a second Tipo 125. This car was driven by Alberto Ascari in the 1950 International Trophy race. Ascari spun in the rain and failed to finish. Vandervell again returned the car to Ferrari, who rebuilt the car and added a 4.5 liter unsupercharged V-12 engine. This car ran for the first time with Reg Parnell driving at the 1951 International Trophy race at Silverstone. Parnell managed to finish second in his first heat race.'

This is a photograph of the car taken in May 1989

This photograph was taken in October 1989