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"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69) 02/26/2018 at 03:57 • Filed to: hour rule, Ferrari

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Ferrari F40

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > pip bip - choose Corrour 02/26/2018 at 04:30

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Watching those guys thrash their supercars in the way they were built to makes me really happy.

kanadanmajava1 > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 02/26/2018 at 05:20

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If I remember correctly this poor F40 burned down in the year. Not a small fire but completely destroyed type of burning down. It just caught fire while driving during some road trip/car gathering. I think it was 6th F40 made including the prototypes.

chaozbandit > kanadanmajava1 02/26/2018 at 07:58

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Actually it was the sixth of eight prototypes.

https://drivetribe.com/p/MaSYkUdpSCODePNKljnVqw?iid=eFkbZOTCRJ61kT7xZ9K2Kg

kanadanmajava1 > chaozbandit 02/26/2018 at 08:49

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But at the same time it’s also the 6th F40 as the prototypes preceded the production versions. Maybe my sentence was a bit messy.

It’s weird that it has 3rd lowest chassis number of the prototypes even though it has been quoted as 6th. It’s number is was 74047 while the rest are 73015, 74045, 74049, 74327, 75034, 75052 and 76354. Maybe the prototypes didn’t progress at the same pace?

chaozbandit > kanadanmajava1 02/26/2018 at 09:20

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The GT prototypes were road cars converted for race specification. As per RMS: “Michelotto’s conversions of several stock F40 examples into so-called F40 GT specifications were then sold by the factory to privateer racers.”

Unlike the full conversions, the prototypes never received the full compliment of race-oriented upgrades until they returned to the factory in later years (of which seven apparently did).

74047 listing as of 2012:

https://www.rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/MC12/Monaco/lots/r370-1987-ferrari-f40-prototypegt/281068

kanadanmajava1 > chaozbandit 02/26/2018 at 09:40

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You seem to be correct. My source says it wrongly and mixes up the road car prototypes and the GT prototypes. That does indeed explain the large gaps between the serial numbers. Also the survival rate of the actual prototypes isn’t usually that high.

chaozbandit > kanadanmajava1 02/26/2018 at 10:11

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Its not like motorsports prototypes see the same fate as pre-production road cars. As unicorn as some homologation specials!