Showing posts with label GTB/4. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GTB/4. Show all posts
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Friday, 20 May 2011
Outlaw Racer - Ferrari 365 GTB/4
Launched in 1968 the Ferrari 365 GTB/4 replaced the Ferrari 275 GTB/4 and to this writers mind represents the pinnacle of front engine rear wheel drive fastback GT cars. Until outlawed by US legislation in 1971 the 365 GTB/4 came with headlights mounted behind acrylic glass covers.
This most stylish of vehicles is powered by a 347 hp Lamperdi inspired twin overhead cam 60º V12 stretched to 4390 cc / 268 cui motor, each cylinder with a volume of 365 cc from which the model gets its name.
To optimise the weight balance and handling the gearbox is mounted as part of a transaxle just in front of the rear wheels.
As one would of expect of a vehicle this cool to look at it has performance to match being capable of reaching 60 mph from rest in 5.4 seconds with a top speed of 174 mph.
Competition versions of the 365 GTB/4 run by privateers with up to 450 hp counted amongst their successes a GT class winning 5th overall at Le Mans in 1971 along with GT Class wins in the same race in '72, '73, and '74 scoring 1st to 5th in class in '72, and five years after production of the model had ceased an amazing 2nd overall in the Daytona 24 hour race.
Dan Gurney and Brock Yates also drove a 365 GTB/4 2,876 miles from New York to Los Angeles averaging 80.1 mph to win the inaugural Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash in 1971.
It is thought just 1,406 of these cars designed by Leonardo Fiorvanti of Pininfarina and built by Scaglietti including 122 Spiders and 15 lightweight competition vehicles. The high desirability of the rare Spiders has led to several Berlinetta models being converted and several companies have made Spider replicas with a variety of engines.
The 365GTB/4 was replaced by the rear engined 365 GT4 Berlinetta Boxer.
I hope you have enjoyed today's Outlaw Racer edition of 'Gettin' a lil' psycho on tyres' and that you will join me again tomorrow. Don't forget to come back now !
Friday, 17 December 2010
Six Carb Standard - Ferrari 275 GTB/4 #10577
It's great to return to Ferrari Friday with a vehicle that resembles the entity that left the Ferrari factory.
The 275 GTB/4 was the penultimate of the '275 GT' vehicles Ferrari built between 1964 and 1968, at it's heart was a 3,286 cc / 200 cui V12 with 2 valves per cylinder but with twin cam heads to operate them, making 4 cams in all hence the /4 suffix. Fuel was fed through 6 carburettors as standard giving the engine a 300 horsepower rating.
Designed primarily as a road car, featuring cast magnesium wheels in place of the older wire wheels, the Scarglietti body work of the 275 GTB/4 could be powered up to 165 mph. Only 280 examples of this type were built.
Hope you have enjoyed your 165 mph Ferrari edition of 'Gettin' a lil' psycho on tyres' and that you'll join me again tomorrow to look at the Austrian influence on a very British sports car. Don't forget to come back now !
The 275 GTB/4 was the penultimate of the '275 GT' vehicles Ferrari built between 1964 and 1968, at it's heart was a 3,286 cc / 200 cui V12 with 2 valves per cylinder but with twin cam heads to operate them, making 4 cams in all hence the /4 suffix. Fuel was fed through 6 carburettors as standard giving the engine a 300 horsepower rating.
Designed primarily as a road car, featuring cast magnesium wheels in place of the older wire wheels, the Scarglietti body work of the 275 GTB/4 could be powered up to 165 mph. Only 280 examples of this type were built.
Hope you have enjoyed your 165 mph Ferrari edition of 'Gettin' a lil' psycho on tyres' and that you'll join me again tomorrow to look at the Austrian influence on a very British sports car. Don't forget to come back now !
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