Ferrari Owners Club National Concours today - identify this

[autofocus]

Hi there,

Decided to give Silverstone a miss and headed off to the Ferrari Owners Club National Concours event today.

The event was held at the stunning Heythrop Park just outside Banbury, and although the turn out was well down on previous years (largely due to the threat of rain I think), there were still some stunning cars on show.

I will be working through the pics over the next few days, but photographed a very pretty car today and I am ashamed to say I have not got a clue which model of Ferrari it is.

DVLA check on the number says its a 4823cc Ferrari Coupe (helpful !)



Any ideas ?

Regards

Tim

[crostonian]

Seem to recall reading about this in a classic car mag several years ago. It's a one off special built in the UK on an original Ferrari chassis, I'm sure others on here can be of more help. Looks like the deisgner wanted a cross between a 250 SWB and a 275 GTB with a bit of GTO thrown in.

[AndrewW-G]

365/400 based custom bodied car, commissioned by IIRC Sir Anthony Bamford

[autofocus]

Hi there,

Panic over, looks like I have found it, this is taken from a thread on Ferrari Chat in 2005: -

"car is designed by Chris Hampson (a freelance industrial
designer) and Chris Major and built by Brian Wingfield (DRL Engineering, Jaguar D-type replicas) and built for Anthony Bamford (1st owner)

based on a 400i, now supposedly owned by a dutch collector

The styling is the result of some very specific requests by the first owner,picking out some particular design cues from his favourite 60's berlinettas with some low drag E- Type thrown in for good measure. A particular problem at the time was to source a contemporary yet sympathetic windscreen, ( one that would meet safety standards,) & we settled on a Toyota Celica screen.The rest of the car is pure Ferrari- a well used 400i donor vehicle which after a great 3 weeks spent 'waking it up' from a long period of inertia was delivered to Bryan Wingfield, (of Gulf GT40 fame,) who is responsible for engineering & project managing the unique car you see in the pictures.It also drives & sounds even better than it looks"

Heres a pic of the very nice rear end: -



and a link to an article on the car from Classic and Sportscar in 1995, it is a very interesting read.

http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/4...0gto001cl6....
http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/3...0gto002vo2....
http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/3...0gto004ab3....
http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/2...0gto005eg6....

Regards

Tim

[trickydisco1000]

Great stuff, did you take any pictures of my car 360 Modena, it won the class m Concours (360 Modena), would love some pics if you did.

My wife took it along to our first concours and won, maybe I should stay away again next year!!!