Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Crushed Cars

[red5hilser (red5hilser]

Hey Larry: The Chevrolet Division of GM did the same thing to all the Corvette 
race cars that they had loaned to Roger Penske for the season back in 'the 
days.' Only thing was, that the GM employee in charge of the crushing, being 
the car-nut that he was, misplaced one. It's still out there somewhere. I read 
about it in R&T years ago. I think they were raced in the old Trans-Am series.

And as far as the long-gone 1961 156 shark noses, Phil Hill drove an exact 
replica (except for the nose badge) that Chris Rhea had built for his 
documentary film in Wolfgang von Tripps. After about 20 minutes of track time, 
Phil came in and said that it was very apparent?that it was?nothing like the 
original factory?156. Unlike the Team cars, this one was well built and?didn't 
have?the rather shoddy construction or?feel of Enzo's machines. 

IMHO, the only reason that Hill won the WDC was that the V-6 Ferrari engine had 
a 40-50 horsepower advantage over the Brits. Not withstanding that his only 
rival, Tripps was killed in the last, and deciding race held at Monza
On real drivers courses, the 156 didn't do too well, with Stirling Moss winning 
at Monte Carlo, and I think, the old Nurburgring. Somebody out there will have 
to check for?me on the latter.

Yer pal, Ferrari Bubba


-----Original Message-----
From: LarryT 
Subject: [Ferrari] Crushed Cars



Howdy -

    I assume everyone knows that Enzo had some of his race cars (like the 
shark nosed F1 cars that took Phil Hill to become World Champion) crushed 
after they became obsolete.  Just heard the 1st 2 prototypes of the XKE were 
also crushed.

    I'm wondering why they crushed them?  Protecting secrets? eccentric? 
some other reason?

Larry T (66 MGB, 74 911, 78 240D, 91 300D)
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