| Ferrari 166 Inter Berlinetta Touring |
Completed: |
1949 |
Originally delivered: |
Italy |
Original colour: |
Rosso |
Original interior: |
White |
Comments: |
We are proud to offer the earliest Ferrari we ever had. The Ferrari 166 Inter |
| Berlinetta Touring carries SN 015 S which means nothing else than the 15th car | |
| built by Ferrari. |
| The first road car produced by Ferrari was the Tipo 166 Inter. The car retained | |
| the then already classic Ferrari V12 engine with the bore and stroke of 60 mm x | |
| 58.8 mm having a displacement of 1995 ccm, a compression ratio of 7.5 : 1 | |
| and a power output of 110 bhp at 6000 rpm. The engine was basically the same | |
| as the sports car version but was often fitted with only one 32 DCF twin choke | |
| Weber carburettor. The car had a dry weight of 980 kg. |
| Ferrari started in 1948 with two cars numbered # 001 and # 003 for which | |
| Allemano has created the coachwork as a Spider and Coupe. Then the first 166 | |
| Inter Coupe was displayed alongside a 166 Mille Miglia Barchetta at the Turin | |
| Motor Show in November 1948. Both cars were bodied by Touring of Milan, using | |
| their Superleggera - superlight - construction method. |
| It would appear that from preparation of the prototype car for the Turin Motor | |
| Show in late-Autumn 1948 to mid-summer '49, Touring actually mounted five | |
| similar bodies of this type on suitable Ferrari 166 Inter chassiss. It is possible | |
| that the Turin show car actually used # 005S, while the others were numbered | |
| # 007S, # 013S, # 015S and # 017S - preserving the Ferrari system of even- | |
| numbers serials for competition cars and odd-numbers for road-going models. |
| The # 015 S was originally painted in solid dark red and received a full grain | |
| Conolly leather beige upholstery, Jaeger round gauges in the same colour of the | |
| body, over ivory background and a beautiful three-spokes steering wheel that | |
| Touring commissioned to a craftsman of Milan and which is still mountd in the | |
| car today. |
| Completed in June 1948 the # 015 S was homologated in 1st of July in 1949. | |
| The sale was agreed between Carlo Botticelle, Ferrari sales agent and the | |
| purchaser, Paolo Castelnuovo from Venezia, CEO of Sapras. Castelnuovo | |
| registered the car in Milan on 5th of August and received the licence plate MI | |
| 133890. This is documented by a copy of its first Italian registration. |
| The first owner kept the 166 Inter until 1953 when it was sold to Massimo Alesi. | |
| It passed two more owners in Italy until 1959 when the Italian Car Register | |
| (PRA) had it cancelled due to the fact that it left the country being sold to South | |
| Africa, |
| It had two owners in South Africa and was then sold into the US in 1978 where it | |
| was offered by the Ferrari dealership of Atlanta FAF Motorcars. From there it was | |
| short time later sold to England where it was seen in the famous workshop of | |
| David and Kate Cottingham. |
| In 2000 its was offered by Autospeak near to Modena and found a new home in | |
| Italy. |
| It received the Certificazione di Autenticita by Ferrari confirming the engine as | |
| Tipo 166 matching number stamped with # 015 S, the gearbox Tipo 166 with its | |
| numero interno stamped as # 166 S 5 and its differential stamped with # 166 | |
| No 015. |
| Over the years # 015 S had been perfectly restored, good enough to win each | |
| Concours. |
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Price: |
sold |
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