Enzo Ferrari's personal cars

I always smile that Enzo drove a Peugeot 404 Break.
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Anecdotally, Fiat 130?

 

The 330 GT isn't the least liked classic Ferrari by this enthusiast. I like them very much!!!

 

I had one!



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This is cool ..i had a

Mini 998
Peugeot 504 estate (tow car for FFord!)
Peugeot 406
Fiat Spider
Ferrari 308 (still)

Plus a few others...

 

Enzo's 404 Sedan.
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My first major automotive repair was replacing the [4 on a tree] transmission on our 1966 404. I was about 15 at the time (early/mid 70s). Sourced the used gearbox from a 404 station wagon in a Guilford, CT junkyard by rolling the car over onto its side.

 

No; but when he was driving for the Scuderia, Phil Hill also had Peugeots. If my memory serves me well, he already had a 404 in 1961.

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Phil also owned a 1959 Peugeot 403 Sedan.
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anyone know why he preferred Peugeots to Fiats/Alfas/Lancias/etc?

 

also, while it was a promotional photo, I always loved this pic of Enzo with a TR.
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No, but the bridge between France and Italy was probably Pininfarina, who styled many Peugeots starting with the 403 in 1955. I seem to recall that Enzo Ferrari was fluent in French also.

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With his money he could have easily afforded a Lamborghini...

 

When he started driving the 404 in 1966 he was 68-years old, so perhaps he was feeling a bit tired of fast cars.

 

He was never know for outrageous expenses when spending for himself, rather the contrary...

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But he did drive his own productions from time to time, even at a later stage, and with great vista, according to Chris Amon, who was a rather terrifed passenger (see "Forza Amon" by Eoin Young).

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Also Michel Paul Cavallier, President of Pont a Mousson was a SEFAC director. Perhaps the old man got a discount or got the cars for free?

 

That would be very much his style...

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Enzo had two chauffers, who either drove the cars or rode with him. In the famous book on Ferrari by Brock Yates, he recounts how One day Enzo is driving from Modena to Maranello and made a late pass and snagged the bumper of his mini on a truck. so they drove all the way into Maranello, into the factory under the archway, and Ferrari gets out, looks at the bumper dragging on the ground and says "the nerve of that pesant, look what he did to my car"... then chuckled to the driver with a smile and told him to take it over to the race shop and have it fixed by 6 pm.

Ferrari used to take Ingrid Bergman on drives in some of the newer cars, and he would try to make her scared and scream... but she recounted that she actually loved the rides as they were "wild"... this would have been the late 50's and early 60's.... Enzo was a good - fast driver, but also took a lot of risks ... thinking that people were driving on "his roads"...

 

I remember reading about that photo of him somewhere on here. Enzo was getting on a bit by then and couldn't stand for long. So they had a chair hidden behind the open door of the Ferrari enabling him to sit in it, stand momentarily for the photo to be taken, and then sit back down again.

All the best,
Andrew.

 

Correct for short test drives, but for long journeys I am sure he enjoyed the comfort that the 404 afforded.

 

Question is, without any provocation on my part, that I think he almost stopped completly travelling in the sixties, except short trips of about 50 kms to have a lunch or a dinner in the hills above Modena? Otherwise I think he stopped travelling at all at about this time?

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One of these two chauffeurs was Peppino Verdelli.

https://follesetglorieuses.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/ferrari-250-gte-22-enzo-ferrari-peppino-verdelli-copie.jpg

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Enzo's 1973 Fiat 128.
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