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Driven
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Sharper Stallion: CONFESSION: I love the California T. Actually, so does everyone I know who’s driven one. Forget the griping that’s followed the model since the ori...
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Fast Forward: A quick warning to F430 owners: Do not drive a 458 Italia. Seriously—don’t do it. You own one of the greatest sports cars of the last few decades, ...
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Swan Song: Dario Benuzzi surveys his domain from the canopy of the pit garage as an angry-sounding 458 circles the Fiorano test track. His eyes, as always, ar...
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Buyer's Guides
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New-Wave V8: At the 1989 Frankfurt Auto Show, Ferrari unveiled the 348 tb and targa-top ts. As the replacement for the long-running 308/328 series, not to menti...
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Revolution: Enzo Ferrari stubbornly resisted the mid-engine revolution that swept through Formula 1 racing in the late 1950s, and well into the 1960s he remain...
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Welcome to Maranello: After more than two decades building exotic, mid-engine, flat-12-powered Boxers and Testarossas, Ferrari returned to its roots with the 550 Maranel...
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Classics
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The Greatest Generation: When the discussion turns to Touring-bodied 166s, the car that invariably comes to mind is the legendary 166 MM Barchetta. But in 1949 and ’50, Tou...
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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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Design & Refine: The 1960s were a decade of great creativity for automobile designers worldwide. At a time when few safety restrictions were imposed and pollution-c...
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Restorations
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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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Right the First Time: A quick glance at this 250 GT SWB (s/n 3337GT) reveals a handsome, pristine, steel-bodied, factory-correct Ferrari. But s/n 3337, approximately the...
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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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Modified
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Red Menace: It takes just a cursory glance at Dave Diesen’s 308 GTB (s/n 22703) to see that this car has been modified with a singular purpose in mind: to go f...
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European Union: In the good old days before Ferrari adopted turbocharging for its V8 engines, you could expect a machine that looks as purposeful as the Novitec Ro...
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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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People
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Nick’s Boogie: Nick Mason, now 67, found fame and fortune as co-founder and drummer of the iconic rock band Pink Floyd. While it would be hard to find someone who...
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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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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 Lost Years: This 250 LM (s/n 6107) is famous for two things. First, in 2013, it was sold by Sotheby’s for a staggering $14.7 million, making it the 14th most e...
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Westward, Ho!: My father, John Edgar, drove and my mother, Gerry, rode next to him, on his left. I sat in back thinking about the weekend’s sports-car races in Pa...
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Heart Transplant: Contact. Sitting in the cockpit of his single-seat, three-point hydroplane, Dody Jost activates the fuel pump and runs the engine a few seconds usi...
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Racing
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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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Second Life: Scuderia Ferrari was flying high in 1979. Drivers Jody Scheckter and Gilles Villeneuve each won three races, with the former and the team claiming ...
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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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