Hello guys. I'm opening a new thread on this forum to share with you my meeting with a very kind and passionate owner that I'd called the 275 GTB man. This will include : - Ferrari 275 GTB/2 #08501 - Ferrari 275 GTB S.E.F.A.C #05161 - Ferrari 275 GTB Competizione Speciale S.E.F.A.C. #08249 English : eGarage - The 275 GTB Man French : eGarage - L'homme aux 275 GTB My aim is not to be a boaster, I'm just sharing with you this meeting, these pictures and these cars. I hope you'll like the story, I'm not a car specialist but I spent around 50 hours in photoshooting the cars, editing the pictures, finding informations on the cars, making interviews with the onwer, etc so I hope what I said will be correct but if there is something wrong i'm always opened and I'd be happy to correct it. Thanks for your attention. Enjoy. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Thank you ! As my attached images data will be soon reached I'm affraid I'll have to put a simple link to the full gallery.
The Ferrari s/n 05161 has an especially interesting history. Thank you for featuring these Ferrari models with beautiful images to!
The red Ferrari #44. I did not know they made a 275 with short window,non fastback? Looks like series II 1964 GTO?
Yes as explains in the story : Let us cross from the yellow to the red with the second Ferrari 275 GTB, and the first one of the special versions : Ferrari 275 GTB S.E.F.A.C #05161. This 275 GTB seems standard at first sight but if you look more carefully (at the back especially) you will see that it is very special. I saw this 275 GTB S.E.F.A.C for the first time in 2010, during the Monaco Telethon (a charity event with ride in Supercars). At the first look I believed it to be a Ferrari 275 GTB but two things intrigued me : the air inlet on the hood (neither the 275 GTB /2 or 275 GTB /4, or even 275 GTB /C has a stock air inlet), and this rear so particularly reminding me of the 250 GTO (Serie II, so called the 1962 250 GTO). Within Scuderia Ferrari, a special department was created on May 23rd, 1960 : the S.E.F.A.C (Societa Esercizio Fabbriche Automobili e Corse). Michel Paul Cavallier (an important French industrialist, a CEO of factories Pont à Mousson) mobilized his stockholders equity and becomes an administrator at Enzo Ferraris side. Michel Paul Cavallier often went to Maranello to Ferrari for numerous meetings, with the engineers from Ferrari and Enzo Ferrari, and they discussed many special projects. He took part himself in the origin and elaboration of the famous 4 cylindered engine Facel Vega which was extracted from the famous Talbot 6. He is at the origin of the famous gear-boxes called Pont-à-Musson. Among these projects, they decided to create the first prototype of Ferrari 275 GTB : a car on the 250 GT Lusso basis (chassis and engine, and prototype body of the 1964 250 GTO). The 275 GTB S.E.F.A.C #05161 had been born. It was delivered on March 23rd 1963 while the 275 GTB production series was to begin at the end of 1964. This Ferrari 275 GTB S.E.F.A.C #05161 is thus the Prototype of the production series 275 GTB produced later. Its body is aluminum and it adopts a Long Nose body.
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This article - words and photographs by Raphael Belly - was posted to eGarage.com last week, and it details the histories of 05161, 08249, and 08501, three 275s all owned by the same enthusiastic, Ferrari-loving collector. I initially started reading it for the specific information it has on each car - information I could add to my database. But then I got to this line: "Furthermore nowadays we tend to think about this car costs so much or this collector owns this car and we dont look necessarily farther." It was so refreshing to read an article from a point of view that wasn't through a "what's it worth" magnifying glass. I definitely recommend everyone have a read.
Raphael himself posted about it here: http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/vintage-thru-365-gtc4-sponsored-vintage-driving-machines/475059-275-gtb-man.html
I would want to see an old pic of 05161. Saying this car was born with this hybrid body is completely silly...
The story goes that this car was wrecked, repaired, chopped into a spyder, and then later completely rebodied again. I have never seen period photos of 05161 in its original configuration, but I can't possibly imagine that it would have had this long-nose style. As for the rear-end treatment, I cannot comment. I can only say that, if none of us have ever seen photos of the car in its original skin, then those who performed the rebody probably hadn't either.
