The Berlinetta Boxer thread

[torquespeak]

Frrair said:

I loved that car and still do, I wonder where it is now?

Can't be that many RHD red 512BB, Cream with black Daytona seats, without black cills around.

Any more info available about this? Where would the car have been kept? What was the owner's name?

-Ed

[rathur]

996Type said:

sad to report Chris Meek has just passed away, funeral in Leeds next week.

Bless him , I own his old yellow with chocolate 512bb that he did 186mph with photo for enzo, I found his mate the photographer and got a print made , the car went to his funeral !

[Bazooka Joe]

Love a BB, a nice one for sale at GTO Engineering Black with Tan, although well out of my league at £260k.

Can't seem to grab an image from their site.

[CRA1G]

rathur said:

996Type said:

sad to report Chris Meek has just passed away, funeral in Leeds next week.

Bless him , I own his old yellow with chocolate 512bb that he did 186mph with photo for enzo, I found his mate the photographer and got a print made , the car went to his funeral !

Wow... I've been in that car.. When i left school at 16 i went to work with my dad in his picture gallery in Leeds,Chris was a regular customer driving a Red/White 2CV with reg CM 1 on it he some times came in the BB with reg 175 MPH on it,we framed a picture of him doing 186 MPH... It was displayed for many years in the Flying Pizza restraunt in leeds.i He regularly gave me Ferrari car brouchers one of which was a beautiful 512bb which i still have with many others... I managed 183 MPH (not in the UK) when i first got my Giallo Fly 360 with a photo as i never forgot Chris's.... A lovely man who i a had several lunches with over the years always with a story to tell.....

[996Type]

That’s a great story, those old brochures are works of art themselves.

I knew of Chris more through his connections with Lotus and Mallory than Ferrari, he was a real campaigner for Lotus history through the club. End of an era with his passing.