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The Winner of the Official Ferrari Calendar!

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The “Ferrari Myth” Calendar Official Ferrari Calendar for 2012, can be purchased via David Bull Publishing for $89.95.

But last week VeloceToday also had a special drawing, an offer limited to our Premium Subscribers only. We thank the many who put their name “in the hat”. The winner of the Ferrari Myth Calendar is Joe Grealy from Kildare, Ireland.. Congratulations Joe, must be luck of the Irish!

If you want to qualify for next month’s giveaway (a copy of “Nardi, A Fast Life”) click here to become a Premium Subscriber.

The Fiat Dino, Body and Soul

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Fiat Dino Spider

Story by Pete Vack
Photography by Ken Visser

The Chassis
Fiat’s Dino Spider has been a classic since it was introduced at the Turin Auto Show in 1966. Like most true classics, the passage of time only increases its appeal.

It was the first Fiat with an engine with four overhead camshafts. The engine was produced by Fiat and “inspired in its general architecture by the Ferrari engine of the same name”, according to Quattroruote’s massive 1970 work, All the Fiats. It was also the same engine used in the Ferrari-made (but never labeled as such) Dino 206 and 246. And for Fiat, variants of the V6 were used in the Fiat Dino Coupe and finally, the Lancia Stratos. It was a remarkable engine, however many fathers claimed it.

The hereditary link with Ferrari, by way of Vittorio Jano, Franco Rochi and “productionized” by Aurelio Lampredi for Fiat has been well detailed elsewhere (Graham Robson‘s Fiat Sports Cars, and Doug Nye’s Dino, the little Ferrari).
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Win an Official Ferrari 2012 Ferrari “Myth” Calendar

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This superb $89.95 Raupp Calendar for 2012 can be yours if you send an email to vack@cox.net and are a VeloceToday Premium Subscriber.

By Pete Vack

This month we feature “Ferrari Myth” the Official Ferrari Calendar for 2012, which can be purchased via David Bull Publishing for $89.95. We are also giving one away in a special drawing, an offer limited to our Premium Subscribers. Just send me an email with your name and mailing address, I’ll put them in a hat and choose the winner. You must be a Premium Subscriber by the time of the drawing on January 10th, 2012 in order to qualify. Click here to susbscribe.
The winner will be announced on January 11th. But first a little about the Official Ferrari Calendar. With all those choices out there, how does a car manufacturer like Ferrari choose who will create their official, and pricey, calendars? What makes them different? And who is Günther Raupp? We set out to find the answers.
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A Time for Calendars

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Jeff Hill's neat, friendly 2012 Calendar is not available for sale, but free to anyone who subscribes now to our Premium Subscriber service.

…Or can we live without an analog calendar with space for a to-do list, are cars, calendars and girls forever inseparable (at least in our minds,) and wouldn’t you like a free copy of the “Ferrari Myth Calendar” by Raupp?

By now, traditional calendars should have gone the way of bison, elephantine cell phones, CRT tvs, newspapers, music stores, Oldsmobiles, Kodachrome and good movies. There is one on every PC, iPad, cellphone and Blackberry. But the ancient analog made-from-a-tree calendars still have a habit of hanging around, usually on garage walls, dens, and under phones in the kitchen. They are thrown out every January and magically renewed. Some habits die hard. [Read more…] about A Time for Calendars

When OSCA Met Porsche

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By Pete Vack
Photos Copyright Alessandro Gerelli

Alessandro Gerelli has accumulated hundreds of photos from the many Mille Miglia events over the past few years. We thought we might use a few to help illustrate OSCA’s meeting with Porsche in the 1954 race. In addition to Alessandro’s photos, we are fortunate to have obtained permission from LMG Auto and the widow of Carlo Demand, to publish the image of the Hans Hermann Porsche Spyder as the occupants ducked under a rail crossing. The drawing was first published in “The Big Race”, in 1956. More of Carlo’s work can be seen, and ordered, from www.lmgauto.com.

Carlo Demand's work depicts some of the greatest moments in racing history, such as Hans Hermann's remarkable 1954 Mille Miglia.


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Safari Time for the Doc

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What, a story about a Porsche? Well, Porsches are the Editor’s first love, and when journalist Peter Münder submitted this great story about Doc Brandenburg, we couldn’t resist…You’ll enjoy.

Story and photos by Peter Münder

Erik Brandenburg, a 45 year old Hamburg proctologist, is certainly a very particular type of weightwatcher: While he is preparing his 36 year old Porsche 911-Safari for the African Eco Race from Morocco to Dakar/Senegal (December 27th-January 8th 2012), he seems to balance a pair of scales in his mind. [Read more…] about Safari Time for the Doc

A Lancia Fulvia HF and the Winter Challenge

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Lancia Fulvia 1600 HF

Story and Photos below By Peter Collins
Above photo courtesy of the Classic Rally Association.

Portions of this article appeared in the new online classic rally magazine, Retro-Speed.
Check it out for classic rally stories and results!

When friend and colleague Peter Baker asked me if I would like to occupy the navigator’s seat in his well-prepared Lancia Fulvia 1600 HF for the Classic Rally Association’s Winter Challenge. The Rally started from Chester, which is a large and historic town south of Liverpool and close to the Welsh border (it has been used as a rally base several times in the past), and finished at Monte Carlo. I naturally acquiesced immediately. A fun drive with a spot of map-reading – easy, job done–but I had failed to notice that the event was an FIA Regularity round. This latter detail meant that it would be up to expert standards in all respects in order for it to be ratified by the international motorsport body, the Federation Internationale d’Automobile.

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Marshall Buck Reviews a Tamiya Ferrari 288GTO

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Ferrari 288GTO

Ferrari built 272 examples of the real thing. Tamiya built this one…

Review and photos by Marshall Buck

To my eye, the 1984-86 Ferrari 288 GTO is one of the most beautiful modern sports car designs ever penned. Though it was based on another great design, the new for ’84 GTO was once again perfection from the house of Pininfarina.

I am more of vintage car guy; my main interest is sports and classic cars from the 1930’s through about 1970, but this one rings every bell for me, as does the beautiful 1:12 scale model.

The 288 GTO was designed and built specifically to compete in a new Group B racing series. At that time the requirements for this particular series were that a manufacturer must produce a minimum of 200 cars for homologation.

“Best laid plans…….” Unfortunately the new Group B series was abandoned before it ever got on the track since only Ferrari and Porsche built cars for the series. None of the 272 cars which Ferrari built were ever raced; they all remained road cars…… very fast and scary road cars at that. Most were sold in Europe as they were not certified for sale in the USA, though there were many that were imported and federalized by specialists such as Amerispec.

Scary fast…… The 288 had the power to back up its looks. The heart in each one was a mid mounted V-8 with twin IHI turbochargers. Top speed in Europe was an eye watering 189 mph. Here in the US the top end was reduced to somewhere around a mere 175 mph.

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