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Which is your favourite Ferrari

2 Aug 2015, 5:23pm
Read a write up of Ferrari's new 488 Spider in today's paper and was thinking that it's not a pretty car.

So, two questions for you:

1. Which is your prettiest Ferrari, and
2. Which is your prettiest car ever.

I'll start with -

Ferrari 288 GTO



And
Lancia Fulvia HF

2 Aug 2015, 5:40pm
Prettiest Fezza...

212 Vignale Spyder Export







and prettiest car:

Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint Speciale

2 Aug 2015, 5:48pm
Favourite Ferrari hmm used to be F40 but now its
P4/5



Prettiest car is actually designed by an aeronautical engineer he said it was designed using maths

XJ13

2 Aug 2015, 6:25pm
Prettiest Ferrari? I'd go with the 375MM



Prettiest car? I'm with you on the Fulvia coupe, but this was the first car that ever made me stop and stare -





Got to be the boat-tailed Duetto, not so keen on the cam-tailed 70's revamp.
3 Aug 2015, 5:28am
Totally agree with WCA. The Dino was always my favourite. :israel:
3 Aug 2015, 5:56am
DSG4ME wrote:
Totally agree with WCA. The Dino was always my favourite. :israel:


Shame it's not actually a Ferrari then... :peep:
3 Aug 2015, 8:55am
Shame it's not actually a Ferrari then..

Conceived, designed and built by the Ferrari company, marketed as a new sub-brand that never took off, and now generally accepted to be a Ferrari.

But yes, you are right. It wasn't actually badged as Ferrari at the time although they nearly all seem to have Ferrari badges on now, including the one in Beaulieu Motor Museum.
3 Aug 2015, 9:35am
My favourite of all time is one of these stunning 250 Testa Rossas



I know that it often gets a bad rep and is considered one of the least desirable Ferraris however I have always had a massive soft spot for the 348

3 Aug 2015, 6:20pm
WorldClassAccident wrote:
Shame it's not actually a Ferrari then..

Conceived, designed and built by the Ferrari company, marketed as a new sub-brand that never took off, and now generally accepted to be a Ferrari.

But yes, you are right. It wasn't actually badged as Ferrari at the time although they nearly all seem to have Ferrari badges on now, including the one in Beaulieu Motor Museum.


Remember these?



Conceived, designed and built by...






3 Aug 2015, 7:32pm
Mister Towed wrote:
Remember these? ...


Ah yes Auto Carriers Ltd.

Neighbour across the road had one a few months back. Collected it for his uncle who has a dozen for use in films.

Just crying out for a GSX1100 engine if you ask me...
3 Aug 2015, 7:36pm
Car photographer wrote:
Isn't that 212 just a sammio? ;)


Yeah- just a bit of filler, guv. Make it good, slap on the paint, bit o' polish, Bob's your uncle and Fanny's your aunt. Job's a good'un, squire.
3 Aug 2015, 9:14pm
Not quite a Cobra, the much rarer AC Worm. Owned by a mate of mate who let me loose on the paintwork. Designed for one person but if you set the doors to 'lard' you can get 3 full size blokes in.
Archived forum photo


My favourite Ferrari
Archived forum photo
3 Aug 2015, 11:23pm
hurnleft wrote:
My favourite Ferrari
Archived forum photo


Have you seen this by Gullwing America

4 Aug 2015, 5:56am
Mister Towed wrote:
Loving the AC Worm, and also like the idea of a big bike engine in an otherwise silly car. Been toying with the idea of a BMW R series powered 2CV as a future fun project.

http://www.sparrowautomotive.co.uk/citroen2cvbmw.html


That looks great Towed - add a sammio body (like the dark red car in the Netherlands)
4 Aug 2015, 7:52am
So many versions of the 250 but this is a rare zagato bodied racer

4 Aug 2015, 6:43pm
The back ends quite nice too. Sort of similar to how mines looking now. If you blur your eyes a bit and imagine the tailights on. :-) also has a softer door line to most zagato's usually the rear wing shape is more prominent.
4 Aug 2015, 6:51pm
The lwb version looks nice too, slight wider grill and more 250 version of wing shape too
5 Aug 2015, 7:11pm
Prettiest Ferrari? - I think this 1958 250 Testa Rossa would be up there.
( Apparently owned by Ralph Lauren. )



Prettiest car ever? - Any excuse to post this photo of a Beacham Jaguar MkII.



Cheers, Paul. :)