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What is this exactly,
complete answer is worth one point.
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Re: #A114 by Amsterdam
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2010, 10:07:51 AM »
It's a Ferrari 166MM with Fontana coachwork.
The race is Targa Florio.
More informations will come...
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Re: #A114 by Amsterdam
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2010, 10:19:34 AM »
Sorry, it's Fontana Ferrari 212 Export (not 166), s/n0086E.
Giro di Sicilia 1951 Vittorio Marzotto/Paolo Fontana 1°OA #440.
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« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2010, 10:25:09 AM »
Front pic.
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Re: #A114 by Amsterdam
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2010, 10:27:06 AM »
Yes that is it. Well done.
It had also a name under wich it was known.

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Re: #A114 by Amsterdam
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2010, 01:10:17 PM »
Maybe "carretto siciliano" (sicilian cart).
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Re: #A114 by Amsterdam
« Reply #6 on: November 13, 2010, 01:43:17 PM »
Yes indeed, a well deserved point is yours.

Some info on the history of this car and chassis that often became a new look.
This chassis featured on Autopuzzles before as Marzotto had Fontana put a shooting brake type body on 0086E

0086E began life when the Marzotto brothers purchased the car from Ferrari in 1951 as a bare chassis. They commissioned Carrozzeria Fontana of Padua to construct a racing body which has often been called a "Carretto Siciliano", or "Sicilian cart." Marzotto achieved successes with this car in its inaugural event, winning first overall in the Giro di Sicilia, but dnf'd at the Targa Florio the same year.

Chassis# 0086 E

Engine internal #10/E

February 22, 1951  
Chassis sold to WI.PU.CO., Via Larga 8, Milan, Italy, for first owner Count Vittorio Marzotto, Valdagno/Italy Certificate of origin #118 issued  
March 1951  
Much delayed the new chassis frame arrived from the Ferrari factory for the Scuderia Marzotto of Valdagno, Italy Giannino and Vittorio Marzotto had the naked chassis BODIED by Carrozzeria Paolo Fontana of Padua as an ugly and very crude "Sicilian chariot" or "Carretto Siciliano" „h1 (see also Prancing Horse magazine, issues# 86 and 87)  
March 20, 1951  
Registered on Italian license plates of Vicenza SVI 20371¡¨  
April 1, 1951  
Raced at the XI Tour of Sicily by Count Vittorio Marzotto and co-driver Paolo Fontana, race #440, placed 1st OA (pictured on pages 201/202 of the book "Ferrari Automobili 1947-1953", authored by Corrado Millanta, Luigi Orsini and Franco Zagari) (pictured page 71 of Pino Fondi's book "Il Giro di Sicilia")  
May 8, 1951  
Engine 0086 E was equipped with three carburetors instead of the original single one  
1951  
REBODIED by Carrozzeria Vignale of Turin as a spider (similar to chassis #0076 E)  
July 15, 1951  
Raced at the Grand Prix of Portugal at the Circuito Vila real by Giovanni Bracco, race #14, placed 1st OA (pictured pages 74/75 of the book "Piloti Biellesi", authored by Enzo Russo)  
July 16, 1951  
Raced at the Lima Stadium Night Festival at Oporto by Bracco, race #16, placed 1st OA  
Then  
Following a design by Count Giannino Marzotto and Mr. Reggiani the car was REBODIED again by Fontana's coachworks into a Station Wagon (type "Giardinetta" or "Famigliare") It was said that the station car would be used as a spare parts transporter for the Carrera Panamericana in Mexico in November 1951.  
Later  
REBODIED again by Fontana, now as a spider with insweep body flanks  
March 9, 1952  
Raced at the Tour of Sicily by Guido Mancini on race #464, still on Italian license plates “VI 20371”  
March 19, 1952  
Raced at the Grand Prix Siracusa by Sergio Sighinolfi, entered by Scuderia Marzotto, race #16, placed 2nd in the Gold Cup sports category  
May 3, 1952  
Raced at the XIX Mille Miglia by Fabrizio Serena di Lapigio and co-driver Walter Piccolo, on race #628, still registered on license plates “VI 20371” as the car was on loan from the Scuderia Marzotto Shortly after Rome the car took fire  
July 13, 1952  
Raced at the VI Coppa d’Oro delle Dolomiti by Guido Mancini, on race #102, placed 12th OA (pictured page 109 of Gianni Cancellieri and Cesare De Agostini’s book “Polvere e Gloria – La Coppa d’Oro delle Dolomiti 1947-1956”, published by Giorgio Nada Editore 2000)  
March 14, 1953  
License plates changed by the Scuderia Marzotto from “VI 20371” to new license plates “VI 24196” (because the former license plates “VI 20371” had been “demolished” according to the ACI/PRA documents)  
1953  
Raced by Serena and Mancini in Italy  
May 24, 1953  
Raced at the Terni-Marmore hillclimb by Serena on race #925 (pictured in the Ferrari Yearbook 1953))  
August 15, 1953  
Raced at the Pescara 12 hours, XXII Coppa Acerbo, by Mancini-Serena on race #16  
October 7, 1953  
Sold to Guido Mancini, Rome, Italy  
January 10, 1954  
Re-registered on Italian license plates of Rome “Roma 193078”  
Late 1950s  
Owned by James A. Flynn, Syracuse/NY/USA (who also owned 290 MM Spider Scaglietti #0626)  
October 17, 1959  
Raced at Watkins Glen by Flynn, race #138 •4 (see page 15 of Prancing Horse magazine, issue# 52)  
August 6, 1960  
Raced at Montgomery/NY by Flynn on race #238, placed 11th  
June 24, 1961  
Raced at Watkins Glen/NY by Flynn  
1965  
Owned by Stan Hallinan, Concord/NH/USA  
December 2005  
Sold by Hallinan to Peter Markowski, Vergennes/VT/USA In unrestored original condition, unpainted, partially disassembled  
January 21, 2006  
Shown by Markowski during the XV Palm Beach Cavallino Classic at The Breakers, Palm Beach/FL  





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