Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spyder (1960)
One of the most coveted and expensive of all automobiles....
This Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spyder is another one the models included in my upcoming title, - "How to Build Brick Cars", due for release in the next couple of months.
The book will include full instructions on how to build this model and many other cool cars. This Ferrari model includes a pretty cool engine design, along with suspension, front and rear. The car also features opening doors, engine and luggage covers.
www.quartoknows.com/books/9780760352656/How-to-Build-Bric...
There are fast Ferraris and there are beautiful Ferraris. When the two are combined it usually creates a legend.
It doesn't hurt to feature in a cult film, either.
The Ferrari 250 GT California SWB Spyder is such a car. This legend was reincarnated in popular culture in the 1986 film ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ – a replica based on an MG that suffered an unfortunate fate!
The Ferrari 250 line had enjoyed half a decade of development by the time of the 250 SWB Spyder. The car featured an uprated 3.0 V12 engine with 276 bhp (206 kW), nearly as much power as the LeMans racing and FIA GT Championship-winning 250 GTO. The 250 line actually refers to the swept-volume cubic capacity of each of the V12’s cylinders. The SWB chassis was based on the 250 GT SWB road-racer, one of the last of the breed of racing cars that were also produced as road cars.
The beauty came in the form of the open-top Spyder bodywork. This was fitted to the 2,400mm wheelbase frame, a 200mm reduction on the earlier road car. The car was built in both steel and aluminium-bodied versions, the latter also used as race cars. The car’s styling typifies the period – long hood housing the engine, Borrani wire wheels, egg-crate grille, fender grilles to help keep the engine bay cool, and a thin-chrome-rimmed swept-back windscreen. Most cars were fitted with blade-like chrome bumpers, often removed for track work.
For all these reasons and more, the car was popular with celebrities – actors, singers, racers and others. The pedigree of both car and owners ensure that today, as cars become available for sale, many change hands in excess of $10 million. Making the 250 SWB Spyder one of the most valuable and covetable of all classic cars.
As well as a sneaky peak of Chapter 7 of "How to Build Brick Cars" - this Lego miniland-scale Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spyder has been included in Flickr LUGNuts' 117th Build Challenge, - "A Cult Following", - a challenge to create vehicles which have a cult following.
Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spyder (1960)
One of the most coveted and expensive of all automobiles....
This Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spyder is another one the models included in my upcoming title, - "How to Build Brick Cars", due for release in the next couple of months.
The book will include full instructions on how to build this model and many other cool cars. This Ferrari model includes a pretty cool engine design, along with suspension, front and rear. The car also features opening doors, engine and luggage covers.
www.quartoknows.com/books/9780760352656/How-to-Build-Bric...
There are fast Ferraris and there are beautiful Ferraris. When the two are combined it usually creates a legend.
It doesn't hurt to feature in a cult film, either.
The Ferrari 250 GT California SWB Spyder is such a car. This legend was reincarnated in popular culture in the 1986 film ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ – a replica based on an MG that suffered an unfortunate fate!
The Ferrari 250 line had enjoyed half a decade of development by the time of the 250 SWB Spyder. The car featured an uprated 3.0 V12 engine with 276 bhp (206 kW), nearly as much power as the LeMans racing and FIA GT Championship-winning 250 GTO. The 250 line actually refers to the swept-volume cubic capacity of each of the V12’s cylinders. The SWB chassis was based on the 250 GT SWB road-racer, one of the last of the breed of racing cars that were also produced as road cars.
The beauty came in the form of the open-top Spyder bodywork. This was fitted to the 2,400mm wheelbase frame, a 200mm reduction on the earlier road car. The car was built in both steel and aluminium-bodied versions, the latter also used as race cars. The car’s styling typifies the period – long hood housing the engine, Borrani wire wheels, egg-crate grille, fender grilles to help keep the engine bay cool, and a thin-chrome-rimmed swept-back windscreen. Most cars were fitted with blade-like chrome bumpers, often removed for track work.
For all these reasons and more, the car was popular with celebrities – actors, singers, racers and others. The pedigree of both car and owners ensure that today, as cars become available for sale, many change hands in excess of $10 million. Making the 250 SWB Spyder one of the most valuable and covetable of all classic cars.
As well as a sneaky peak of Chapter 7 of "How to Build Brick Cars" - this Lego miniland-scale Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spyder has been included in Flickr LUGNuts' 117th Build Challenge, - "A Cult Following", - a challenge to create vehicles which have a cult following.