“Most folks think of Ferraris as 8- or 12- cylinder cars. A 4-cylinder Ferrari is kinda strange to most people."

Bought after its racing career had drawn to a close, Admiral Robert Phillips bought the unwanted 1955 Ferrari 500 Mondial Series II by Scaglietti in 1960 for the princely sum of $2,225, or as he puts it, “two-and-a-half MGAs”.

Petrolicious

24 Nov 2015

Happiest on-track, these were Ferrari’s early series of privateer cars. It was sent originally to Venezuela, then to the U.S. where it was competitive on its debut at Sebring. By 1959, it had been relocated to a Rambler Dealership, with a seized differential! As it happens, the decision to wipe some dust off of the valve covers would change his life forever.

“Ah, Ferrari—I’ve got to save it!” and with that, Admiral Robert Phillips had spent 2/3 of his salary on a broken Ferrari racing car. And then proceeded to fix it himself, and race, with the car accompanying the Navy family on its many moves over the years. Now, he’s a world-renown expert on the 500/750 Mondial models, after years of research and collecting factory Assembly Data Sheets.

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Comments

That last sentence though… so.much.truth.

Its weird to see Ferrari in french racing blue but i like it.

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Agreed.

Yes so true it ticks an emotional sadness to see great racing machines siting in a museum or on display at a showroom

A pure gem that was the meaning of being one with the machine

Great videa as always from the Best YT channel.

It’s always great to read a good rebuild story, but the reason why Ferraris with something smaller than a v8 are not popular, is because Enzo Ferrari’s idea of a sports car was something with a v12 in the front or a v8 in the back. When his son Dino passed from muscle dystrophy, he named the car after him, and put the engine Dino designers, a 2.46 L v6 in it. But he never badged it as Ferrari, because it didn’t meat his criteria.