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Anthrax
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 Posted - 06/21/2013 : 14:01:05
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Back in 1965, Peter Sutcliffe acquired from David Piper a green Ferrari 250 GTO s/n 4491. Sutcliffe sold the car back to Piper in 1974. (if they only knew) This model has been replicated several times by AMR, Tokoloshe, Hostaro, Espirit, Provence Moulage and few others. I have a model by Tokoloshe. The thing that I cannot figure out is why that model has red wheels. The AMR version has green wheels, and other models have aluminum wheels. Peter Wingfield once told me that teams would spray their wheels to ensure the correct wheels came back to their car after a visit to the Firestone truck. I cannot find photos of the actual race car to verify which wheels were used. Any experts out there?
Mike Schmidt
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ramapao69
Italy
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the.x.man
New Zealand
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Posted - 06/21/2013 : 17:55:19
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I've moved your question over into this section, Mike, as I think more people will see it here.
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Patbad
Belgium
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Posted - 06/25/2013 : 13:45:08
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In Ferrari GTO, the classic experience (Alan Lis), on page 134, Peter Sutcliffe says:
"At the 1000kms of the Nurburgring, I had a collapsed rear wheel in practice so Ronnie Hoare lent me some others for the race which is why it had some silver wheels and some red. When I bought the car it was in David Piper's bright BP sort of green and I had it resprayed into my own racing green which was a dark metallic shade and the wheels were done red then. In retrospect, it wasn't all that attrctive with red wheels, it looked a bit Indian...." |
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Anthrax
USA
111 Posts |
Posted - 06/25/2013 : 14:08:59
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Oh perfect! That is very interesting. Thank you all.
Mike Schmidt
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surfjunke
USA
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Posted - 11/09/2013 : 07:36:13
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| Very interesting! I just recently built the Histaro kit & painted the wheels gold, like the kit instructions stated. It sounds like I painted them the wrong color. The car does look cool, though with those big rear flared fenders. |
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The Sutcliffe/Piper Ferrari 250 GTO
