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Driven
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Masterwork: The concept of “specialness” is deeply relative when it comes to new Ferraris, inasmuch as even the carmaker’s most pedestrian offering, the Califo...
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Superfast: There is a road that every new Ferrari visits. It’s about 45 minutes from Maranello, and has no outward significance other than it is tight, twisty...
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Pace and Grace: Although beloved by their owners, Ferrari’s 2+2s have never for the rest of us generated the excitement of their two-seat stablemates. That’s certa...
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Buyer's Guides
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F430 Buyer's Guide: Barring some unexpected external force, evolution normally proceeds in small steps. Thus, it was no surprise that the Ferrari F430 was based on the...
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Sweet Spot: Looking for a fast, rugged, reliable and relatively inexpensive Ferrari to race or take to the occasional track day? Look no further than the F430 ...
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Grab and Go: At the 2008 Paris Auto Show, Ferrari introduced an all-new hardtop convertible: the California. The company had developed the V8-powered GT to attr...
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Classics
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Second-chance SWB: At the 1959 Paris Auto Show, Ferrari unveiled its latest V12-powered two-seater. The company’s sales literature, brochures and factory manuals iden...
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Marzotto's Bet: In 1949, after a couple of years building cars with seemingly random body styles, Ferrari introduced its first model with a clear “Ferrari” identit...
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Passion Play: Robert Garven was ten years old in 1967 when he saw his first Ferrari, in San Francisco. He stood there, speechless, as the California sun reflecte...
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Restorations
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Crunch Time: I was out on the 2013 FOG rally with a bunch of other cars,” recounts Kevin Enderby. “I came over this crest in the road and saw a line of cars sto...
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Blue Swan: When I first met this 330 GTS (s/n 09627), it was skewered like a chicken on a chassis rotisserie at Scott Drnek’s Virtuoso Performance shop in Hay...
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Mimicking Maranello: It’s tough to pin down the story of the late designer/carbuilder Tom Meade. There’s been little written about him, and not all of it agrees. The mo...
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Modified
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Target: Supercar: Pennsylvanian Chris Doggett claims that he had the idea to build a supercar back in 2013. Yes, you read that correctly: Build a supercar! Without a...
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Outlaw: Over the last four decades, Surrey-based Mototechnique Ltd. has become one of England’s top Ferrari specialists. You’d never know from looking at t...
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Chinetti Conundrum: At the end of the 1960s, Ferrari manufactured roughly 168 examples of the 365 GTC, the grand touring coupe being a mechanically upgraded and cosmet...
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People
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The Road Warrior: As a child, Max Papis (born on October 3, 1969 in Como, Italy) dreamed of racing in Formula 1. At age 12, he started karting and quickly establishe...
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50 Years of Ferrari: In 2004, The New York Times published a story about high-end automobile mechanics and restorers. The piece begins, “‘I was worried,’ David Letterma...
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The Headmaster: Nino Vaccarella’s curriculum vitae reads like no other. In it, you’ll discover that he has a law degree and that he worked for much of his life in ...
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History
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The Prancing Clydesdale: There are only a few Ferrari 308s with period racing histories. NART, for example, entered a 308 GT4 at Le Mans in 1974 and ’75, while Michelotto c...
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The Beast: Saturday night, mid-October, 1958. The Presidential Bar at Riverside’s historic Mission Inn is jammed with people talking about tomorrow’s race, th...
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Immorality Clause: Enzo Ferrari boasted proudly, said one of his engineers, of his “immoral” actions. He wasn’t referring to his private life—although in this he was ...
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Racing
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Italian Heritage: In his book, Sailing from Byzantium, Collin Wells describes the courage of the Italian humanists who, after the fall of Constantinople, bravely col...
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The New Privateers: LAST OCTOBER, the roar of barely muffled Ferrari V8 engines ripped through the air at NOLA Motorsports Park near New Orleans, Louisiana. With more ...
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Winning Formula: The Ferrari Challenge bills itself as a series for “gentlemen” drivers—and that’s true insofar as no professional racers can be found on the grid. ...
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