Wednesday 26th July 2017

Ferrari at 70: PH Photo Gallery

There are all sorts of Ferrari birthday parties this year, and Windsor Castle was one of the best yet!

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Despite the inclement weather, around 70 Ferraris of all shapes and sizes gathered last Saturday on The Long Walk in front of Windsor Castle for the Maranello Egham parade to celebrate 70 years of the Cavallino Rampante. The parade was one of many to be organised with Ferrari North Europe and arguably one of the largest so far with fast, expensive and even unique examples of Maranello's finest in convoy through Windsor Park.

Notable appearances include two F40s, two F50s, a black Enzo, two F12 TdFs, a stunning 'tailor made' black and red LaFerrari, and two LaFerrari Apertas. As if those were not enough, there was also one of the first public appearances of the 812 Superfast in the country!

More special cars include the unique 250 SWB 'Car 14' liveried 488 Spider, a Daytona and Daytona Spider, and a 512 BBi. There was a quite dreadful supercharged 458 with a bodykit, but it didn't deserve my shutter count...

At the time of writing two more Ferrari 70 celebrations have taken place, however upcoming parades include Graypaul Nottingham on July 25th, Stratstone Manchester on August 1st, and JCT600 Leeds on August 4th. The most impressive display, however, will likely be at Silverstone on 23rd/24th September, when the Ferrari Racing Days take place - the European Challenge Series is there, plus an F1 demonstration...

[sh33n]

Some stunning cars, shame about all the stickers ruining the beautiful lines. Is there a legal plate between them? ha.

Fair play to the F50 driver with the umbrella up!

[Yipper]

I was at Modena / Maranello last week and the town is a cr*phole! Everywhere is boarded up (except the Ferrari factory) and the famous track looks only big enough for gokarts. Very disappointed.

[Gandahar]

Dreadful, I assume someone thinks this is classy? Lipstick on a pig ?

Edited by Gandahar on Wednesday 26th July 16:40

[HardtopManual]

The "lipstick" example is one ugly motor.

I can't decide whether it's Heath Ledger's joker, an old woman with her withering lips painted back on, or something that lives at the bottom of the sea.

It is truly awful.

[Turbobanana]

I'm a little disappointed that F40, F50 and Daytona apart, this parade appears to show little of 70 years worth of production. I appreciate that any Ferrari is an event in itself, but couldn't a few earlier models have been tempted to join in?

[generationx]

Turbobanana said:

I'm a little disappointed that F40, F50 and Daytona apart, this parade appears to show little of 70 years worth of production. I appreciate that any Ferrari is an event in itself, but couldn't a few earlier models have been tempted to join in?

Yes I was hoping for a few earlier cars too. The red-stripes-on-black cars look horrible.

[Plate spinner]

Agreed. F40 and earlier I find stunning and incredibly interesting cars.

Much newer than the 1990s and the cars just struggle to hold my attention for longer than a nanosecond.

[Resolutionary]

Article said:

There was a quite dreadful supercharged 458 with a bodykit, but it didn't deserve my shutter count...

Considering some of the photos within the article, I for one would have liked to see the modified 458 for some balance. Strange that a shamelessly customised Ferrari didn't make the cut, but a bunch of disgracefully stickered / liveried up cars did.

[Rawwr]

Is it wrong that the only three cars which do anything for me are all <=1995?

[Plate spinner]

Rawwr said:

Is it wrong that the only three cars which do anything for me are all <=1995?

Nope

[Big GT]

Although never a big fan of Ferrari they have given it a go. As well as some dogs they made some good cars over the years.

About 4 years ago a friend purchased a 458 for £130K. I just thought, what value for money! Probably one of the greatest supercars. The sound of that NA V8 was just sublime.

[lucido grigio]

Turbobanana said:

I'm a little disappointed that F40, F50 and Daytona apart, this parade appears to show little of 70 years worth of production. I appreciate that any Ferrari is an event in itself, but couldn't a few earlier models have been tempted to join in?

I went along to Windsor for this and was equally disappointed that the oldest car present were the 2 Daytonas from c1973.

So nothing from the first 25/26 years of production.

The drizzle didn't make my day either......

[Striple]

I'd love an f40. It looks so resolved as a package unlike some of the newer cars.

[BVB]

Colchester even got a parade of rampant Ferrari. 110 of them to be precise.