What Ferrari is this?

[mechanick]

Interesting update to this one - took this yesterday at Goodwood FOS - would love to know what this ferrari is - I'm not sure its a TR and the new body does make me think recreation?

Edited by mechanick on Monday 4th July 11:05

[mechanick]

[johnnyreggae]

Goodwood's reputation suggests your assessment as recreation is incorrect

Edited by johnnyreggae on Monday 4th July 11:16

[TonyHetherington]

A few years ago now I was at a petrol station on the M2. Into the car park pulled two open car transporters (the ones that can hold 6 or 7 cars on them, that you see delivering to dealers all the time). Except both had probably £5m quid of cars on them. GT40, C-Type, 300SL, you name it. Went and spoke to the drivers and they were on their way down to classic LeMans. Completely open sided! Anyhow - just goes to show, they're not always as OTT with the packing as you might think! (surprised me too)

[mechanick]

You are of course quite right about goodwood's reputation, but how could it have changed form then?
Also this car wasn't part of the official entries - maybe someone's 'other' car?

[mechanick]

thinking about it, that coupe top looks like a bit of a screw-on job - maybe it is real!

[Roaming.Panda]

I believe it's a Neil Twyman replica 250 TR, based on a 250 GTE.

[mechanick]

thanks - now I can sleep easily - am I right in saying it still will be £500K+?

[MrDarkBlack]

Ha ha....I hadn't seen anyone else with a photo of this car, so googled the reg, and found this thread

A lovely looking machine, regardless of it's history.


IMGP6219 by StaggeredLee, on Flickr


Ferrari Testa Rossa... by StaggeredLee, on Flickr

[chevronb37]

I believe it is a Neil Twyman recreation based on a lesser 250 Ferrari. It was racing at the 2009 Revival. By coincidence I then bumped into it at the BP garage on the A3 near Guildford on my way home. Whatever its provenance, it's a lovely thing and does have some original 250 TR bits, such as the dials.

[mechanick]

That hard top is fantastic - I'm not that much of a fan of the TR really, but the hard top makes the car.
Perhaps an example of a 'recreation' being better than the real thing (in the real world with $10M change)

[stephen300o]

Some people get 'recreation' mixed up with 'replica'. A recreation is far far away from being a repica.

[AndrewW-G]

replica, recreation, rebody, in relation to this car, it's all the same thing really, a 250PF coupe with a TR look alike body, still a nice car, worth more in this configuration, if not quite so nice to drive on the road as it was with its original spec.

[dinkel]

chevronb37 said:

I believe it is a Neil Twyman recreation based on a lesser 250 Ferrari. It was racing at the 2009 Revival. By coincidence I then bumped into it at the BP garage on the A3 near Guildford on my way home. Whatever its provenance, it's a lovely thing and does have some original 250 TR bits, such as the dials.

You are right, I'll ask Neil and post back here.

[dinkel]

http://www.motorretro.com/2011/10/spa-six-hours-fa...

Anyone knows his Danish?

[Oelholm]

I do, Claus is a friend of mine.

Basically, he was told by a person from the Masters association that it was an original, and that the hardtop is a later addition, based on a Testa Rossa model, Twyman once saw.

Later research then revealed that it was a replica based on a 330 donor.

[Dalto123]

Looking at the plates I noticed that the Le Mans/ Racing Ferrari's have 'MO' at the start of the plate don't they?. Anyway, here's one to add. I went in this one a few years back as a passenger, and the owner said it was a Le Mans race ca. Its a 1958 250 GT:

[url]|http://thumbsnap.com/pbhAPO9j[/url

couldn't upload picture of the car, but found a pic of it on Google images

[AndrewW-G]

Prova-MO is Modena's equivilant of UK trade plates, the race cars had them on to avoid registering them and therefore having to pay tax

ETA, the UK plate on the 250 in question is actualy MOI 520 and not MO 1520

Edited by AndrewW-G on Sunday 30th October 11:44