Ferrari Mailing List: Re: 1960s specials

[Michael James (cavallino_rapante]

FORZA and Cavallino occasionally write articles about the machines used in this period, and also make-mention of US engine swaps to facilitate continued racing with NAPA parts availability.  Good stories to catch-up on, but there aren't any cars from that period that aren't worth 'BIG MONEY" today, so the likelyhood that these cars weren't recovered in the Go-Go 80s and fully-restored to Concourse standards with the ever-important matching numbers is rare.  Those that know of buried treasure ain't tellin' - Tom Shaughnessy isn't rich today because he gave-out that information for free.....

 

A good friend was restoring a Ferrari 212 Cabriolet here in MA, a car that hadn't seen its original engine in over 30 years.  He was able to track it down - sitting in the Midwestern basement of one (of many) Italian parts scroungers who saw the word 'FERRARI' on the cam covers and rightly-figured somebody would come back for it.  Thirty years later, and about $5,000 cash, reunited car with its matching-numbers Columbo-designed engine.  Nobody 'really' threw those old italian motors in the trash....they just sat in the back of the garage until they became worth their weight in gold.  The Classiche department in Maranello will factory-cast you a new one if you need a new, numbers-matching block or heads bad enough.....

 

M

--- On Thu, 6/3/10, dale sailors <sailorsdaleedward [at] yahoo.com> wrote:

From: dale sailors <sailorsdaleedward [at] yahoo.com>
Subject: [Ferrari] 1960s specials
To: "Michael" <Cavallino_Rapante [at] yahoo.com>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Date: Thursday, June 3, 2010, 1:31 PM

Hi Listers,

               Just was wonering?

               In the 1960s I remember seeing a few well used Ferrari 4 or 6 cylinder sports racig cars re-engined with Chevy V-8s at SCCA races such as Courtland Alabama.

               Eventually were most of these cars rescued and restored to origial condition or did most die behind a garage somewhere or go to the crusher?

               Any chance of a "barn find" do you think?

               Once I bought seeral postwar H-D ies from a farmer. Each of his sons had bought one and road it until it needed a tuneup and wouldn't kickstart! All were completely intact! Just weathered. 

               Ciao!

                Dale

           

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