Ferrari identity please

[willyworm]

I saw a fabulous looking Ferrari in Richmond, N.Yorks yesterday (Sunday). It was dark blue, FHC, I would think built in the 70's, white racing roundels twin exhausts, with the Reg. No. 7 SPA.
Anybody know what it was as I only saw the back of it, but it looked mightily impressive?

[zaktoo]

I think that's the one... late fifties 250 GT SWB Competition.

HTH

Ciao

Zak

[zaktoo]

There's a shot if the butt too... pretty perky & sweet.

It's not of the one you saw, but I could only find frontals of that one

Ciao

Zak

[murph7355]

willyworm said:

I saw a fabulous looking Ferrari in Richmond, N.Yorks yesterday (Sunday). It was dark blue, FHC, I would think built in the 70's, white racing roundels twin exhausts, with the Reg. No. 7 SPA. Anybody know what it was as I only saw the back of it, but it looked mightily impressive?

One of Rob Walker's cars as driven by Sir Stirling Moss. I think this one won the 1960 TT (have to excuse my error if not, but I saw it up at DKE and was a bit too transfixed to recall the absolute details I was told).

These things are stunningly beautiful (my all time favourite car), and if I had somewhere between 600k-750k to spend and could prise one out of a current owner's fingers, I would. Couple of very big ifs there - values seem to be going only one way...

Why the GTO gets the acclaim over these I dont know (from a purely aesthetical point of view).

[m.lovell]

and they say car desighn has come a long way.....give me a 250gt swb any day over a Enzo, sklr merc or any of the new breed of super hyper cars. if it was a mclaren f1 or 250 gt that may be a differnt story.

what would be your choice ? I think you could go shoping in the 250gt and park it in a public car park, would a Enzo realy go over speed bumps ?

[alanc5]

m.lovell said:

and they say car desighn has come a long way.....give me a 250gt swb any day over a Enzo, sklr merc or any of the new breed of super hyper cars. if it was a mclaren f1 or 250 gt that may be a differnt story. what would be your choice ? I think you could go shoping in the 250gt and park it in a public car park, would a Enzo realy go over speed bumps ?

Perhaps not, but then would a 250gt accelerate and corner like an Enzo?

I love old cars, they give you that strange feeling when you sit in them...hard to explain it, but this wouldn't get a look in if I had the between it and an Enzo.

[rico]

For the price of a 250swb you could have an Enzo, CarreraGT and a Zonda probably...

[m.lovell]

I dont think there that sort of money are they ? The 250 GTO`s are millions and 250swb lussos going for around the £180k mark. I think some of the ex racing 250`s maybe worth a lot with the right history. I`m no Ferari exspert and may be miles of the mark....

[m.lovell]

the other thing that would bother me as well is the new hyper cars reliance on electronics. Do you think they will still work in 40 years time ? would you want to fly by 40 year old wires ? I think most of them are destined to be museum exibits and will typicalise the 2000 decade. I think Bugati are going to be first with a 1000 hp production sports car that dose 250 mph, Ferrari will follow with 1200hp and 260 mph it all gets kind of stupid. Don`t want to sound like im against them, i love `em and the motoring world is richer for there existence. I just feel that they are that special they are hardly of use to drive on the road.