Friday 24th April 2015

Ferrari Daytona: Pic Of The Week

Video not quite enough? Here's a new wallpaper too!

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Even by the very high standards of Petrolicious videos, that Daytona episode was something special. A classic Ferrari V12 GT being used regularly and properly, and beautifully shot as always. So why not extend the Daytona fascination for just a couple more days?

The car you see here was sold by RM Auctions back in February at its Paris sale. It made 705,600 euros, which is just over half a million pounds at today's exchange rate. A relative bargain you could argue, given the values of some Ferrari V12s...

This particular 365 GTB/4 has a very interesting history, having been originally owned by Charles Jourdan. It was then upgraded by its second owner with a few competition parts, including brakes, carburettors, anti-roll bars and wheels. The full detail can be read in RM's lot description, but it's evidently a car that has been enjoyed and cherished over the past 45 years.

So here it is, superbly presented by RM about to shatter the peace of rural French settlement. Fantastic. Your desktop will never look quite so good again...

Traditional (4:3)
Computer widescreen (16:10)
TV widescreen (16:9)
Portrait (smartphone, etc)

[Image: Bernard Canonne for RM Auctions]

[soad]

The Daytona's interior is incredibly driver focused, with big, clear dials that are easy to see, and an excellent driving position - it's the classic high speed businessman's tool.

[SirSquidalot]

Endlessly classy, jaw droopingly beautiful, silky smooth v12. What's not to love?

[patch5674]

Plus it spawned 'Daytona Leather' which in my eyes is a must have option on any V12 Ferrari...maybe even any Ferrari full stop.

[Richard A]

Designers understood form in those days and, admittedly, were not constrained by the need to conform to a group platform body-in-white.

Nowadays, designers are given a basic shape and just drag-and-drop vogueish, fashion victim features onto that shape from their CAD/CAM menus. That understanding of 'the whole' which made cars like the Ferrari 365 GTB/4 so heart stoppingly gorgeous to look at seems to have expired in our deconstructionist modern times.

[365daytonafan]

soad said:

The Daytona's interior is incredibly driver focused, with big, clear dials that are easy to see, and an excellent driving position - it's the classic high speed businessman's tool.

May I ask where you took that picture? It looks like it is of my car (the one in the video thread below) as the steering wheel is the same incorrect one mine has.

[soad]

365daytonafan said:

May I ask where you took that picture? It looks like it is of my car (the one in the video thread below) as the steering wheel is the same incorrect one mine has.

Pinched it online, sorry.

[Happyjap]

This is a classic motor for me.