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[MSwiss]

Spotted on my three-minute drive to work.

 

Luckily I was listening to YouTube on my phone or I wouldn't have gotten the pic.

 

Dave Crevie can tell me what I saw.

 

Late '60s Ferrari?

 

[Racer36]

1968 365 GT 2+2 I believe 

[MSwiss]

Thanks.

 

I Googled just 365 and got a bunch of Daytona pictures and quickly gave up.

[Dave Crevie]

It is a 365GT 2+2, 1967, '68 or '69. The 1970 cars had a different door handle as the most obvious difference. 

 

 

 

To confuse things, there was a two-seat version called the 365GTC.

 

 

And then, in 1970 they added the 365GTC/4, which had the four-cam Daytona engine, but with different heads and side draft Webers.

 

 

All descended from the 330 GTC.

 

[Dave Crevie]

Had to add a second post to get all the pictures in.

 

Engine for 365GTC, and 365 GT 2+2:

 

 

Engine for 365 GTC/4:

 

[Racer36]

I loved working with DCOE Webers, but keeping 6 of them happy at a time might not be a simple task.

[MG Brown]

images.google.com is your friend.

[Dave Crevie]

I loved working with DCOE Webers, but keeping 6 of them happy at a time might not be a simple task.

Nothing to it. Sync them first, everything else goes easy.

[Dave Crevie]

I loved working with DCOE Webers, but keeping 6 of them happy at a time might not be a simple task.

Nothing to it. Sync them first, everything else goes easy.

[spudboy]

Oh my,  330 GTC!

 

My loins are on FIRE.

[spudboy]

And BORRANIS!

 

They're like lingerie for a sports car.

 

I'm having a moment.

 

[MSwiss]

images.google.com is your friend.

If you are addressing me , I would sooner interact with my good friends Dave Crevie and Dennis Dominey.

 

That what people with human friends do.

[Dave Crevie]

Actually,I would rather tune 6 Webers than true a set of Borani wire wheels. You have to be so careful not to knick those soft aluminum rims with the nipple wrench.

[Bill Seitz]

I think I'll stick to building and truing bicycle wheels.

[Dave Crevie]

There is one more in that series. One I left out intentionally. Considered by most Ferraristi to be the ugliest Ferrari ever, the 330 GT 2 + 2. Originally intended only for the European market, quite a few actually made it stateside under the "once in a lifetime" loophole in the DOT import rules.

 

 

 

Because they are so few over here, they get a surprisingly good buck. Almost as much as you would pay for one of these;

 

 

275 GTB 2 cam long nose.

 

Which would you choose?

[MSwiss]

The bottom one, but IMO, it's about a third as good looking as a 250GTO.

[Martin]

At the shop where I worked the Borrani rims were nicknamed Butterani. Like you say they were softer than others.

[Dave Crevie]

But it's not $57 milion bucks.

 

 

And we both know someone who paid a lot more for one.

 

 

The 275 shown in post  #15  would be in this price range;

 

 

 

I couldn't find a 330GT 2 + 2 for sale stateside, but this one is typical of one for sale in the U. K.  Prices for Ferraris have been mostly lower in Europe than in the U. S.

 

[Dave Crevie]

The bottom one, but IMO, it's about a third as good looking as a 250GTO.

 

Save your pennies, Mike. Maybe someday you can take yours out for a spin.

 

https://youtu.be/KHg...IO8eaCHnqcLAQYX

 

 

Just after I got rid of the 206, I had a chance to buy this 250GTO/64. For $4500.00. It was just a beat-up old race car back then. Bob Bodin from World Ferrari bought it, and sent it back to Maranello for restauration. 

 

 

A snap of it in process;

 

[Dave Crevie]

So what else would I do on a Sunday morning but watch racing videos?

 

https://youtu.be/Xid...Hjc7iWfSGuyAU2y

 

A couple of errors in this one, most notably, the narrator mis-identifies a 330LMB as a GTO. Different car, but it does look a little like a GTO from the front.

 

 

 

Think front half of a 250GTO and the rear half of a 250GT Lusso;

 

 

 

The Lusso, luxury in Italian, was intended as a road car, but, of course, some made it into racing. Ol' Enzo used them to fill out part of the 100 cars rule the FIA required to make the GTO a legal production car.

Otherwise, they would have had to compete in the prototype division.

[Phil Hackett]

Not as flashy... Culver City 3-22-25. Owner is probably looking for that special fastener that's been in stock at this hardware store since 1963. Maryland plates so it has be something *really* special. One of Shelby's shops was about 3 miles from here and Ritchie Ginther's shop was literally walking distance down the street from the store.

 

 

[John Luongo]

outstanding! gives new meaning to the phrase: "its 30 mins away, i'll be there in 10"

[Dave Crevie]

One of my Austin-Healy friends brought an original slabside 260 Cobra back from the Mecom Kissimmee auction. He's going to e-mail me some pictures, but hasn't yet. He says it has the crossways front leaf spring, so it is legit. It's getting hard to tell a continuation or kit from the real thing these days. It makes a good mate to the '67 GT350 he has with the Gurney-Westlake heads and 48 IDA 2C Webers. I'll post the pictures as soon as I get them.
He offered to pay my way to go with to the auction, but naturally my health won't allow that.

[John Luongo]

Dave, weren't those heads a tunnel port design for high flow? I ran 351W heads with GT40 valves on my small block Ford back in the day.11.2 CR underneath an original Shelby high-rise tri-power set up about 760 cfm. Pulled rpm very well after 3,800 RPM all the way to 6,400. Quite peppy in a 2,900 lb Falcon. 12.6 at 106 MPH, through the mufflers with street tires. Sometimes would catch a Cobra Jet Mustang if he was sleeping a bit.

[Jay Guard]

Slotblog member Trent Kifer just moved into the central Florida area and stopped by to talk slots and take a few laps on my home track. Of course, here's what he pulled into the driveway with, a super cool Lotus Evora S, for sure the coolest car I'll see today, by a long shot! I didn't take a picture but it looked just like this one.