With only three original P4s ever built, cars like this exceptional, race-winning example only become available on the rarest of occasions. Chassis 0858 competed under Coupe, Spyder and Can-Am configurations. Its distinguished racing career includes a third overall at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1967 and a win in the 1000-km race at Monza. Currently Spyder body work is being prepared for the car as illustrated here. About as “Blue-Chip” as it gets!
Check December 2011 edition of Motorsport Magazine - page 52 - Jackie Stewart quotes the car when he mentions this P4 as the only car that worked for him at the bumpy Brands Hatch was the Ferrari P4 he drove there in 1967 - this actual car!
Enclose some pictures above - kindly sent by Roy Walenn - who wrote to us with these memories of the car many years ago...Thanks Roy!
"I attach the (PDF) photo of the P4, regrettably, like my mind it is a bit faded now! So, from memory the year is 1967 or ’68. (I was a lad of 14 /15 y. old. a mad petrol head then, and it has only got worse!) I took the picture in our local hero’s (John Love) service station, forecourt, (Main st., Bulawayo, Rhodesia) where a lot of the pre-race scrutineering used to take place. (I used to stand glazed eyes and watch John and his mechanic –Gordon Jones work on John’s Lotus 49 ) Although this was an afternoon after the race week-end, and I ‘think’ they were about to head back to Johannesburg (500 mile south). (Yes ‘just’ on an open trailer, and left out-side hotels at night! – how things have changed) I think the P4 had been driven by Paul Hawkins that week-end and regrettably it either dnf or did not actually race. But, do remember it practicing and of course the lovely noise! The track was our local James McNeillie Circuit, Kumalo, Bulawayo, Rhodesia………
In later years the P4 was raced in the orange with brown and gold strips of team “Gunston’ colours, and indeed was driven by the Paul Hawkins and John Love in the Kyalami 9 Hour endurance race of1968.
I hope these will be of interest to you and future owner of an outstandingly beautiful racer."
| VIN: | 0858 |
| Colour: | Red |
| Trim: | Black |
| Configuration: | RHD |
| Price: | In negotiation |
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