Wednesday 16th July 2014

Ferrari 330 P4: Time For Tea?

Petrolicious flimmaker Josh Clason signs off with a stunning bit of Ferrari racing history

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We've long been fans of Petrolicious filmmaker Josh Clason's car vids so when the email tip-off about his latest effort on the Ferrari 330 P4 came in it was an automatic Time For Tea? selection.

The car, it goes without saying, is a beaut and its driver Nick Longhi (credited as 'Ferrari Corso Pilota instructor and race prep engineer for private collection') is eloquent in his description of what makes it so special. "You don't have to change the way you think, the way you behave, you just drive, you just drive it and go. That's incredibly rare," he says. Yes, his job sounds pretty cool. Typically for one of Clason's films the camerawork is lush and he lets the car speak for itself with languid, indulgent camerawork and plenty of raw engine noise. No jump cuts or pumpin' tunes here, thank god.

Ferrari has a decent tech and history entry on its customer site which you can check out here but, for now, here's the vid. Make sure you turn it up loud to annoy your workmates.

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[Source: Petrolicious, Ferrari.com]

[PhantomPH]

"Signs off"?? Is Petrolicious about to stop producing videos? It's been in my regular 'must watch' list for a while now.

[Dan Trent]

PhantomPH said:

"Signs off"?? Is Petrolicious about to stop producing videos? It's been in my regular 'must watch' list for a while now.

Josh didn't specify, he just told me he's leaving the company to do his own thing.

Cheers,

Dan

[ManOpener]

One of the best looking racing cars of all time IMO. Properly stunning.

[VladD]

A cracking car. I think the 206SP is prettier though.

[LotusOmega375D]

David Clarke of Graypaul Ferrari, Loughborough had one (#0856) that's now in Canada. I think it became so valuable that he cashed it in and gave the proceeds to a local kids charity.

[43034]

That sound is something else!

fking awesome

[365daytonafan]

LotusOmega375D said:

David Clarke of Graypaul Ferrari, Loughborough had one (#0856) that's now in Canada. I think it became so valuable that he cashed it in and gave the proceeds to a local kids charity.

0856 is the one in the video.

[PhantomPH]

Dan Trent said:

PhantomPH said:

"Signs off"?? Is Petrolicious about to stop producing videos? It's been in my regular 'must watch' list for a while now.

Josh didn't specify, he just told me he's leaving the company to do his own thing.

Cheers,

Dan

I hope the quality and 'feel' of the videos is retained. I've watched every one of the Petrolicious postings and they are fantastic bits of escapism for 10 minutes.

Didn't the same guy do very similar videos under another guise, prior to Petrol..?

Regardless, the YouTube channel subscription will remain!

[P4ROT]

LotusOmega375D said:

David Clarke of Graypaul Ferrari, Loughborough had one (#0856) that's now in Canada. I think it became so valuable that he cashed it in and gave the proceeds to a local kids charity.

That's rare- what a nice fellow- any idea how much it was worth?

[manmaths]

Yes I hope the videos keep coming! They are well made and I always look forward to them.

This is a beautiful car and the noise is epic!

[sideways man]

Just a thing of great beauty.

[sumpoil]

My first Scalextric car, chosen from the catalogue when I was 6 – before I knew anything about the what the name Ferrari meant to the world of motoring – because I thought it was the most beautiful car I’d ever seen …. and I still do. Seeing one never fails to take me back to that Christmas morning in 19! .... ooooh, I’m getting all misty-eyed! However, I guess you'd need to win the Euromillions quadruple rollover to even get close to owning it so I'm not expecting the real thing from Santa this year.

There are Ferraris and there are LaFerraris, but this – I my opinion, at least – is THE Ferrari

[bubney72]

Superb!

[chelme]

Does it really get better than this? Maybe with another Ferrari, the 250 GTO, but nothing else. As Gordon Murray said, Ferrari make the purest of Sports and Super-sports cars and in my humble opinion, the most complete and the best. Bravo to Petrolicious for bringing to us some truly awesome videos of these cars.

[fathomfive]

What a noise

[OwenK]

They don't make 'em like that anymore. I wish they did. I love this era of curvaceous, pretty cars - not interested by the current trend for aggressive pointy ungainly cars that look like aliens.

[GT2CS]

last 330 P4, chassis 0858 sold at RM auctions in May 2009 for Euro 7.25m.

[DeltaEvo2]

Can't touch this! BEAUTIFUL!

[Joey Ramone]

Gobsmacking thing of beauty. Kicks sand in the face of every modern supercar.

[griffgray]

A work of art, my mates Can Am at LMC 2012