Ferrari 290 MM #0628 is an absolute superspot
Posted on 25-07-2014 at 10:53 by sir_smokalot – 13 Comments”
Watch this spot, for a car like this, you come sporadically in the wild. This very rare Ferrari classic is extra special because it is actually two models at the same time. How that sits?
For the answer to that question, we must all the way back to the beginning of this car, in 1956, the year in which Ferrari have a great diverse array of cars released for the very wealthy racer.
860 Monza
This open racer was born as 860 Monza, a racer with a bullige 3.5 litre 4-cylinder, a Lampredi block that dated from the late ’40s. This content (3.431 cc) was nearly identical to that of the 290 M(ille) M(iglia), a more modern block that are 3.490 cc about twelve cylinders spaced.
After the 860 Monza just before the Mille Migla of 1956 was completed graduated driver Peter Collins there is a second place. He was accompanied by photojournalist Louis Klemantaski as a navigator during the ride beautiful photos shot seems to have. It was the highlight of the racing season 1956-1957, which also contains classics such as the Targa Florio (Sicily) were driven. In the final race names legend Juan Manuel Fangio and Eugenio Castelloti place behind the wheel.
290 MM
After the racing season, all of the 860 Monza’s were sold, except this car, chassis number 0628. Instead, if the car is a new racing season do, albeit in a different form. He was converted to 290 MM, and so was the 4-pitter exchanged for a V12, with matching engine number 0628 M, which he to the day of today (and we know what that does for the value of your classic). The bonnet was slightly raised to make place for the three thick Weber 46 DCF carburetors.
Later in the season was #0628 later sold to Jacques Swaters, and Jan de Vroom. Our fellow countryman, the Pious (born in the former Dutch east Indies) lived for some time in the U.S., and was one of the founders of the North American Racing Team (N. A. R. T.), of which the livery today on a Ferrari 458 Special can be found. During the GP of Sweden, he put the 290 MM on the roof, giving the car a at the whole gang male to Maranello had, this time for a nose job.
Later, when the car is still in the possession of our illustrious countryman, they had a Stirling Moss, not exactly known as a friend of Ferrari, so far, during the Nassau Speed Week behind the wheel of the 290 MM to crawl. Moss won both races with force majeure.
End active race performances
From the early ’60s it was done with the racecarriere of # 0628, and went the car over privately owned. In 1999 the car was completely restored to the specs of 1957 (he was in the meantime, blue-sprayed), with his original nose.
The last that we could dig out was that the car was in the hands of the British collector Hugh Taylor, but what outlines our surprise: suddenly there are photos of the same 290 MM on Dutch soil, which in a truck is loaded. According to spotter timd was the car on the way to New York.
More interesting is that there is still a Ferrari in the truck is loaded. An old acquaintance, that is. It is the 275 GTB from the bankrupt Eurocommerce, that the piece was of the auction some time ago. The 290 MM was not one of the lots, but could it be that this car in the estate of the megalomaniac Ger Visser is sitting, and outside the auction to a buyer has been found?
We see also in this photo, a blue nose at the beginning of the truck. This is a 290 MM-nose, so this seems very strongly that the instance that after the Vrooms crash is mounted is preserved, and part of the deal was. We think we have a very special spot can call, and that on Dutch soil.
View the photos on autojunk!
UPDATE: more photos of the 275 GTB HERE.