By the Editor

Here it is, two weeks after we published the above photo with a plea for help as in Who, What, Where and When? There were no fully correct answers, though some responded that it looked like a Ferrari. This has never happened before in the long 25 years of VeloceToday and many mystery contests!

Or, maybe, just maybe, we have actually found a photo of a Ferrari race car that no one can easily identify. In this day of Google and AI, Barchetta and Ferrarichat, that is hard to believe. Just when you thought we knew it all up pops this strangely painted Ferrari.

Story and photos by Alan Boe
From the VeloceToday Archives, November 2018

In the mid-1950s Ferrari was deeply immersed in the business of building, selling, and racing an impressive array of sports cars; four, six and twelve cylinder engines were employed in spyders and berlinettas bodied by Touring, Vignale, Scaglietti, and Pinin Farina on chassis of varying wheelbases. The ability to manufacture such an amazing variety of sporting machinery did not seem particularly out of the ordinary…for Ferrari. It was accepted practice then, but it would be impossible today! And none of Ferrari’s competition of the time was ever able to produce anywhere near the range of sports racing cars that Ferrari did.

Story and photos by Alan Boe

In the mid-1950s Ferrari was deeply immersed in the business of building, selling, and racing an impressive array of sports cars; four, six and twelve cylinder engines were employed in spyders and berlinettas bodied by Touring, Vignale, Scaglietti, and Pinin Farina on chassis of varying wheelbases. The ability to manufacture such an amazing variety of sporting machinery did not seem particularly out of the ordinary…for Ferrari. It was accepted practice then, but it would be impossible today! And none of Ferrari’s competition of the time was ever able to produce anywhere near the range of sports racing cars that Ferrari did.