Ferrari Story

Factory description with photos and map

The Ferrari production has always been notable because of the outstanding characteristics of the engines: the cover of this issue depicts the products of the factory, in particular the cut out engine of the new Testarossa. The photos in this issue are from Rogliatti, Ferrari, and Pininfarina.

Ferrari as a factory: the industrial reality of this Company not always is understood in its right dimension by the people that have not had the luck to visit the Maranello factory (as well as the one in Modena where the bodies are built and the Pininfarina in Turin where the shapes for the new models are designed).

Engineer Enzo Ferrari himself, when invited to go meeting any of the big personalities, usually answers that he prefers that people come to Maranello, because besides meeting him they will see how they work and what they do at Ferrari.

In the following pages an attempt is made to guide the reader in an ideal visit to this factory, in many aspects unique.

Gianni Rogliatti

Two years of technical evolution and racing records

The first two years of activity saw the successes of the type 166; one of the best examples restored and preserved in the USA is shown on the cover; it is the property of Briggs Cunningham Museum, photographed by David Gooley.

Another beautiful example is on pages 12-13: the car is owned by James H. Clark and has been photographed by Henry Austin Clark Jr. (copyright 1965).

The other pictures in this issue are from the archives of Ferrari, Busso, Giberti and Rogliatti.

Ferrari as a factory and not more simply as a "scuderia" that would race cars built by others: 1947 witnessed the debut of these cars on the Italian race tracks.

In this issue are being examined the technical and sporting facts that in the the couple of years 1947-48 were responsible for the growth of the young make and its cars, whose inception was described in issue no.3 of Ferrari Story. For the first time also is printed a very complete set of pictures on the early cars and technical documents hitherto unpublished.

Essential for this story were the informations supplied by all those concerned at the time, first of all engineer Enzo Ferrari to whom are expressed the most sincere thanks.

Gianni Rogliatti

Turbo powered cars: 208 GTB-GTS and 288 GTO

In this issue are described the road cars equipped with a turbosupercharged engine. These are the odels originally without intercooler or the versions 208 Turbo GTB and GTS, and later the versions Turbo GTB-GTS with intercooler.

To these it was added the exclusive GTO type, whose engine is illustrated on the cover.

The photos of this issue are by Maurizio Cavazzuti and Gianni Rogliatti.

Ferrari turbo road car: this fascinating technical topic has been faced in two different ways in Maranello, that is as solution to the problem of getting more power with a fixed engine capacity and as the expression of advanced technology barring (almost) any cost considerations.

In the first case they are the GTB-GTS cars is regular production which thanks to the turbocharged two litres engine have the same performance of the normally aspirated 3,2 models.

In the second case it is the fabulous new GTO, built in a limited number and which is already a collectors item.

Of all these cars it is offered a complete technical description, as it is already an established practice of this magazine.

Gianni Rogliatti

The first production type: 11 catalogues

This issue is devoted specially to the road versions of the 166 type, inclusing the beautiful berlinetta on the cover, of which more pictures are on pages 12-13.

The pictures of this issue are by Publifoto, Ragliatti and from the archives of the magazine Motor Italia. The color pictures of page 8-9 have been graciously sent by doctor Michel Kiener of Lausanne. The image of Franco Cortese on page 31 was done by Corrado Milanta and is taken from the book "Ferrari tipo 166" Edizioni Libreria dell'Automobile with the publisher permission.

Ferrari Story has attained no. 9 and the organisation of the issues are by now well defined.

There are three main topics: the story of the Company and the description of all models, following if possible the order in which they appeared (issues 3-7-9) the new models presentation (issues 1-2-4-8) and ferrariana (issue no.5 deals with the 1985 F1 season, and issue no.6 describes the factories).

In this issue the type 166 is examined in detail with its several variants, the catalogues and the coachbuilders who have made the bodies for these cars.

We owe to eng. Carlo Felice Bianchi Anderloni, co-owner of Carrozzeria Touring and its technical director the fact that we have been able to reproduce the hitherto unpublished material on the following pages.

Our thanks to the people who, from the beginning have helped with informations and images, are extended from now on to Mr. Sergio Cassano, President of the Ferrari Club of Valenza, who will assist with his expertise.

Gianni Rogliatti

The early single seaters: 125 F1 - 166 F2 - 166 FL

The foremost motivation of the Ferrari company has always been the racing car in its utmost expression, the single seater or the "monoposto".

On the corver we present a 166 F2 that has been kept in perfect conditions by an Italian collector. The black and white photos of this issue come mostly from the Corrado Milanta archives.

Ferrari monoposto: after the early cars that could be converted from sports to track models by removing fenders and lights, the first real "monoposto" began to race in 1948 both in the 125 F1 and the 166 F2 versions very much alike. In this new installment of Ferrari Story the caracteristics and evolution of both types are analysed: the period goes from the end of 1948 to 1950 when Enzo Ferrari in one of his strokes of genius decided to neglect the supercharged engine and to adopt instead the aspirated type proposed by Aurelio Lampredi.

Gianni Rogliatti