Re: Ferrari 156 Sharknose (was: Less is more)

[George Graves <gmgraves@domain.elided>]

on 5/10/02 7:51 AM, alfa-digest at owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided wrote:

> 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.)


Yes, I know of that 156. But it seemed to me that the poster was discussing
Ferrari V-12s types and I've never heard of a 156 (as opposed to a 166)
V-12. Maybe I misunderstood.
-- 
George Graves
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