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1967, 365 California, s/n 09889 (BBR, limited 35/200, resin)

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

1967, 365 California, 9889

Presented at the 1966 Geneva Motor Show, this was one of the most memorable interpretations of the Italian open sports car theme. Pininfarina enclosed the sophisticated 4.4-litre V12 engine in a body of rare beauty, making it the benchmark in the high performance luxury sports car category. The car’s high price and exclusive image meant it was destined for the most elite section of the market, and only 14 were built.
The sixties chapter closed on the exclusive limited production series of Ferrari models with the Pininfarina designed 365 California model, a cabriolet that was presented at the 1966 Geneva Salon. This model was essentially the direct successor to the 500 Superfast coupe, albeit with a folding canvas roof, and was produced during 1966 and early 1967, in a total of only fourteen units, in the chassis number range 08347 – 10369, two of which, 09985 and 10369, were right hand drive. This makes it an even rarer car than the 500 Superfast, and apart from the 275 GTS/4 NART Spyder, the rarest sixties series production Ferrari road car.
Chassis number 08347 was the prototype for the series built on a 330 GT 2+2 type 571 chassis, whereas the production series started with serial # 09127, using a chassis with type reference 598. Like the 500 Superfast, the chassis’ were sent to Pininfarina who bodied and trimmed them at their plant in Grugliasco, and then returned them to Ferrari for the fitment of the mechanical components. Apart from cosmetic ancillary details, like the standard Plexiglass covered headlights, hidden swivelling driving lights in the upper nose panel, a lack of vents on the wing sides, the provision of a central bonnet bulge, and a body side crease line, the 365 California was visually similar to the 500 Superfast model from the windscreen forward.
From the A post rearward the real differences occurred, with the doors featuring an arrowhead shaped scallop near the upper edge, which ran into the rear wing, with a central chrome strip incorporating the door handle. The scallop was a design detail that Pininfarina had previously featured on a Dino prototype shown at the 1965 Paris Salon, and would carry through into 206/246 and 308/328 series production models spanning some twenty plus years. The rear wings curved slightly upwards over the rear wheels, with a top ridge line that fell at an angle to the edge of the flat boot lid, which with the wings dropped gently into an unusually angular Kamm tail that appears slightly at odds with the curves at the front of the car.
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