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Discussion in 'Vintage (thru 365 GTC4)' started by Bob Zambelli, Jun 4, 2004.

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  1. miurasv

    miurasv F1 World Champ

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    Colour looks like Nocciola Metallizzato? Said to be owned by Lee Herrington of Bow, New Hampshire.
     
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  2. ag512bbi

    ag512bbi F1 Veteran
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    What a great thread. Keep those photos going please.
     
  3. RenaissanceMan

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    Thanks for the info... I researched a little and found an old picture from a concourse event in which it showed the car as being blue at some point? Not 100% sure that the caption/description would have been accurate but I wonder if the car underwent another color change before returning to the original gold??
     
  4. miurasv

    miurasv F1 World Champ

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    Do you have the picture of the car painted blue and the caption or a link to where they can be seen?
     
  5. 335s

    335s Formula Junior

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    WOW!
    A real blast from the past... I remember in 1978/79(?) getting shopped this car(60)K USD?) along with a late, steel SWB, from AD.
    Both cars showed well- with fresh paint-remember, it WAS the late 70's, and AD was the original "founder," per se, of "300Sl Services(Marblehead or Topsfield????), or "Gullwing Services"???(god it was a long time ago, so exact naming is just old man memories here..), now Paul Russel's shop(???),

    The Cal Spy: it was killer paint job, for those cars, in that time snapshot.
    But, having been involved with 1699GT the previous year(shopped at 38K-ish, I told him I thought he was "a bit optimistic" for j"just a steel, LWB spyder"...
    Ugh, ....another one from: I can't believe I let that those two slip through my fingers....don't even start with 1699...
    THAT was a special car, but at that age, I didn't really think it was that special, after all, I'd stumbled onto 1641 at a buddies shop at the same time in '78!
    How rare could they be?
    I eventually pulled 1615 with a buddy out of Scandinavia 15+ years ago-they ARE special cars...real "Cheinetti boy racer" cars...
    Oh the memories....
     
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  6. RenaissanceMan

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  7. turbo-joe

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    WOW
    deep winter time ;)
     
  8. amenasce

    amenasce Three Time F1 World Champ
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    $20k in the 70s was a lot not?
     
  9. Evan Cox

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    #34 Evan Cox, Feb 22, 2020
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    What a small world. My dad(doug jr) posted a photo of the Ferrari he grew up with so i had to look more in to it. I never seen thecar in person since i was born in 1994 but always heard the stories. Funny to see people follow thehistory so closely! My grandfather was doug sr. Ill post a photo of it from july 1969

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    Story was my grandfather sold it for his daughter's wedding. Not tlong ago with my uncle we joked that he if he k ew he would have said screw the wedding just gift us the car! Im sure yall will get a kick out of that
     
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  10. Marcel Massini

    Marcel Massini Two Time F1 World Champ
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