Ferrari 156 Sharknose (was: Less is more)

["Henrik Hasager Johansen" <hjohansen@domain.elided>]

John,
Your knowledge again amazes me, well I have seized to be amazed too much
:-)
A replica of the Ferrari 156 Sharknose was indeed built (or had it
built) by British rockstar Chris Rea. I have read somewhere that he is
bitten by that car and wanted one for one of his musicvideos. I do
believe that I even have seen pictures of it. 

Henrik Johansen
Copenhagen, where the sun is shining and green is coming over us...


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In the second of his two AD8-714 posts George Graves says "Never heard
of the Ferrari 156." I suspect he did, perhaps under the Dino name and
just didn't recognize the number. The 156 was the shark-nose Ferrari
which dominated the 1961 GP season; it was the car in which Phil Hill
took the World Championship.
The engine was a Carlo Chiti design, and Enzo Ferrari disliked it,
barely
tolerating it because it was successful; when the sixes had outlived
their
competition usefulness they were unceremoniously scrapped, as the Fiat
had
been thirty-five years earlier. I believe a 'replica' has been built,
but that none of the real ones survive. (May be wrong, if so, tell me.)

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