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— レイン@3/2,3ファンミ東京 (@vertex_2sinLT) 27 februari 2019

Long story short, I got ahold of the complete publications of the magazine "Symbol", nr 1 to 26.
It's a magazine published for the incrowd of Ferrari, Rolls Royce and Riva.

In the past I had obtained a copy of another publication which held an article about the 400, see blog:

https://erwin400.blogspot.com/2016/12/magazine-symbol-1978-ferrari-400.html

When going through this collection I picked nr 14 first and I hit this 412 article instantly, hows that?

The article is now available in the download folder.

 All the other magazine editions had very nice articles and cool adverts about other Ferrari's and known luxury brands. All the magazines are in very good condition. Despite this I'm considering selling this complete set for a fixed price of € 400,- excluding shipping. If you are interested my contact details can be found at the bottom of this blog (About me).

A book I recently purchased. I was reading another blog which mentioned this book. As such I purchased it. It's actually a very good book and very affordable as well. It provides good detail and great photo's about about a certain period at Ferrari. Unfortunately the 365/400/412 is not much covered though.


However I found this little section which I consider quite unique material.



See also this blog as reference regarding the chassis and the fiberglass panel:

https://erwin400.blogspot.com/2014/10/william-vaccari-il-tubista-ferrari.html

So perhaps when the 400 was produced the fibre glass floor pans were produced and mounted by Pininfarina rather than by Vaccari.

Last weekend I visited Italauto in Achterveld (http://www.italauto.nl/). Firstly because I got an invite since the shop got a new owner. Basicly one of the employees took it over. At the time I had my 400 checked up by them for the PPI. And afterwards I bought some additional parts and thats about it, so I'm not a regular returning customer.


Another reason why I visited the place was because I had an appointment made with someone from whom I bought some magazines and a brochure. The seller happened to be a brother of the founder of this company Italauto. Hows that? At the time Kees van Stokkum was running the shop he apparently had a customer who was potentially interested in a 4 doors Ferrari. As such he reached out to Robert Jankel to obtain a brochure with more detail about this car. So that's how he got ahold of this brochure.

When I was home again I found by surprise the letter was included with the brochure. So I'm including it here for completeness. Effectively it's mostly a Mercedes brochure with many unusual bespoke designs (to put it mildly). And it only contained one artistic drawing of the 4-door Ferrari. 

I also met Kees van Stokkum and had a brief chat with him beforehand but then I was unaware of this story so I could not ask more detail about this Dutch customer having the interest for this specific model ...

For the true brochure with the 4-door details see this blog:

https://erwin400.blogspot.com/2018/04/robert-jankel-design-le-marquis-ferrari.html


Arriving in style and parked it next to the Miami Vice TR:


The actual letter

The slide containing the 4-door Ferrari 400 drawing:

spoiler alert; the 400 is listed:

https://m.dailyhunt.in/news/india/english/zigwheels-epaper-zigwheel/top+5+disliked+ferraris+of+all+time-newsid-109405614

Earlier this week I was in the UK and since I was nearby and had some time left I paid them a visit.
And I came in style with my own daily driver (apologies for the ugly towbar):


And the place was much larger as expected. They had quite a few warehouses. So at the reception I simply asked for Claudio. And he showed up quickly and was very kind to provide me a complete tour, how cool is that. And I was allowed to make pictures as well.


The place did not contain only new items, even complete used body panels are stored, how about this rear Miuara panel:


Rows of packed parts, new and used:


I was expecting they would have some kind of junkyard of crashed cars but this is not the case. Any damaged car that arrives will be taken apart in this small shop. Each part will be then labelled and put on stock.


And this includes larger parts as well:

Or complete chassis's:


Or complete engines, mind you, this was only one of the many racks:


Furthermore I got a quick demo on their website. So in case you need something or get stuck I'm sure Claudio can help you - www.eurospares.co.uk

I wonder where this location is and if these will be sold?

#ثقف_جيل_الالفين كم تسوى ذا السيارات المغبرة !؟ pic.twitter.com/CjLoPorsqw

— عبدالله (@iabdll) 18 februari 2019

Typical, I thought I had posted at least one blog about this special: Fly Studio
But somehow I can't find much more about it on my own blog … so here goes:

FERRARI 365 GT4 2+2 "Fly Studio"

L'histoire de Fly Studio est trop anecdotique pour être racontée ici, mais on peut la résumer à celle de deux ingénieurs, Giacomo Caliri et Luigi Marmiroli, qui ont oeuvré au service course de Ferrari à l'époque de la 312 P et de la 512 S. Fly Studio est le cabinet d'engineering qui leur a servi de base arrière quand ils ont repris leur liberté. Au début de l'aventure, en 1976, ils se sont fait connaître avec cette Ferrari découvrable qu'ils ont conçue pour Etienne Aigner, magnat du luxe et sponsor personnel de Clay Regazzoni, lequel arborait le logo de la marque sur son casque. Caliri a assez vite fait cavalier seul. On l'a vu chez Minardi en F1 et chez Maserati entre 88 et 97, en tant que directeur technique. Marmiroli a de son côté rejoint Alfa Romeo en F1 puis Lamborghini pour développer la Diablo. Fly Studio est toujours sa propriété. (Photo Archivio J-F M)

A nice catch from an online Dutch paper archive (24 jan 1986). Click the photo to enlarge:



Update 17-2-2019: Added this small reference. Not sure if it's related though, looks like this car was taking part in some kind ralley.

Always nice to receive some feedback on cars I report. For instance this one:

http://www.luzzago.com/shop_dettaglioprodotto.asp?id=664


Turns out this is the last 400 carburettor produced. And the previous owner was a friend of Bryan Ferry who did happen to drive it as well.

Why not? A very nice promo, just enjoy

https://youtu.be/one3cpzzRJo

http://rapleyclassiccars.com/sale/1982-ferrari-400i-5-speed/ for 64.500 USD:

An advert I found in the French Magazine Lui No 166/Novembre 1977

https://auction.catawiki.com/kavels/24124804-pieces-muso-ferrari-365-gt4-1976-1-objets



See this blog as reference:

http://erwin400.blogspot.com/2017/01/more-slicing-ferrari-365gt4-22.html



Update 13-1-2020 : And it's still for sale, asking price 2000 GBP:

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1190670

One of my readers notified me about this Ebay advert:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1967-Maserati-Quattroporte-4-2L/382758021173

And yes, I like this car very much, such a stylish car. But the point was more about one the photo's which revealed a 400 body shell in the background:


Well spotted! And I thought I recognized it so I checked my archive. Guess what? It's very likely this one:

http://erwin400.blogspot.com/2019/01/ferrari-400-body.html