This classic Ferrari 212 was coarse cut
Posted on 14-02-2015 at 17:01 by sir_smokalot – 28 Comments”
Built in 1951, and in the same years, barbaric lovingly beheaded: that is the story of this post-war Ferrari 212 Export Coupé with coachwork by Vignale. Anno 2015 is still homeless, but all the way there, because: restored at Ferrari Classische.
The 212 Export (27 instances) was one of the first cars with a vijfbak, the forerunner of the legendary 250, and in his time you could little buy that faster was. 0-100 was in about 10 seconds, a sprinttijd where many current 14% bijteller can only dream of, and also the top speed of only 190 km/h was at that time bloedjesnel.
Still in 2011 there is a black 212 Vignale for a small $1.9 million of the hand on Amelia Island, no 250 GTO-money, but however not an amount that I’m somewhere in the corner of my wardrobe to have lying around. In the ’50s, bought especially the nobility at Ferrari, so it will not surprise you that among all the dukes, earls and jonkheren also a Dutch little prince was our own Bernhard had one (a dense, Pininfarina-drawn carriage rides).
When you get the 212 looks at you will see a car filled with simple technology, because it is made when my own old lord was still in diapers was, that at the same time, an undeniable klassse exhale. You can the old learn practically smell it, and the triple 32 DCF Webers laugh your senses as soon as the hood opens, and the beautiful Colombo V12 (2.563 cc great, because a opgeboorde version of the engine from the 166) on your retina.
According to Ferrari lost this 212 his roof while he was in the possession of the Duke Cesare d Acquarone. In 1957, did his car by the hand, and the 212 via some wanderings with a Brazilian collector. The past few years was the 212 Export a regular guest in the Mille Miglia, with Federico Dubbini behind the wheel. Before his owner had him in april will pick it up this 212 with serial number 0098E to admire in the Maranello Museum.
Gallery: Ferrari 212 Export Coupe Vignale 1951
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