DISCUSS: About Ferrari's 60th anniversary

Hello guys, as you know it's the 60th anniversary of Ferrari this year, and Ferrari is going to celebrate their 60 years old birthday in Melbourne 2-12th in Mar with a line-up leading by the 599GTB. It's just a beginning IMO.

In that case I was thinking of this topic: what's the commemorative model of the 60th birthday? We already have the F40 and F50 for the past two decades. And you know the Enzo was debut in 2002, not concerning to the 60th anniversary. So will there be something? What will that going to be? Ok let's put it aside as another story first, anyway it's ferrari's business.

So do you guys want to do something? And if so what do you want to do? When I woke up to that it's the 60th anniversary of my favourate brand and there won't be some special model like the F40 and F50 built for it, I was thinking of " I need to make one! For myself!" Maybe a special edition of the new V12 berlinetta 599, with my reimagined special custom mixed color?( Perhaps the re-sale red at last) And a new designed(or modified) wheels, luxury and custom designed interior, with multi-materials and special color scheme. Maybe also a scratch built steering wheel or side mirror or any other creative small touches here and there. Above all, I mean making yourself a special, unique and commemorative model for the(your) 60th anniversary of ferrari with your passion, your create, your comprehension and your skills and then share with everyone in the 60th year of ferrari. And you all are better at this kind of job than I do.:grinyes:

How do you think guys? "Come on it's boring..." or "Yeh I wanna in, I already have a plan with my XXX kit!" Any comments and discuss are helpful!:smokin:

Thanks!

Would you like a group build (after the 7 one) ? Sound great.

On my side I'm still wondering about a barchetta, something like the F333, starting from enzo, but not really a track toy like the FXX: something like the SWB/GTO concept, a thing that you'll use to go the office, and at sunday mount slicks and drift the track :D

A group build is exactly what i mean. Honestly I'm strongly expecting your 333SP gio. I think it's probably the fastest non-F1 ferrari ever made, I've seen some videos of it, it's damn that fast and sounds quite like an animal. If we can do this right it'll be very cool to see a SP car in that AF celebration line.:grinyes:

I'll scan my sketches ASAP, you know, buuuuuuuuuuusy days.

BTW I'm with you, it would be a great subject, now I have to work on my 7 and finish the scangi and the TT and... wuffffffffffff

If there's gonna be a 599 group build, count me in for it! I have some ideas to make the car into something "non-standard", and I already have the kit, so I can start right away.

I'd be in for a group FXX or 599 build :)

ACME members are already doing an internal group build of FXX's in a wide variety of real and imaginary colours :sunglasse

This may be the "American Musclecar Guy" part of me (the large part,) but how about a retrofitted "pro touring" style Ferrari, one that pays tribute to a classic Ferrari?

Off the top of my head, a 250 GTO with modern chassis components and a late model engine (say, from the 612.) Give it a retro red and white racing paint scheme maybe, and some minor interior upgrades, ie. keep the classic dash, but drop in modern racing buckets and harnesses.

This would be along the same lines as, say, a pro-touring '69 Camaro--classic looks, late model chassis, LS1 swap, that sort of thing. A tribute to a classic.

And of course, since we're talking about a model, we don't have to "ruin" a 2.5 million dollar Ferrari. :p

Looks like it's not a too bad idea.:lol: But we seem to have a problem on limiting the models. Actually I was thinking about no limited to the models, it'll open to any ferrari models you want to do a special version to celebrate. The only rule is it should be a SPECIAL EDITION for the 60th anniversary. How do you think? Do you think we should fasten the entries on 2 or 3 appointed models? Let's talk about it.

but, you define a special edition as... what? Just limited production, F40, F50, 255 GTO?

I'll vote for broader rules, maybe... maybe "a Ferrari that in some way commemorates 60 years of Ferrari?"

This may be the "American Musclecar Guy" part of me (the large part,) but how about a retrofitted "pro touring" style Ferrari, one that pays tribute to a classic Ferrari?

Off the top of my head, a 250 GTO with modern chassis components and a late model engine (say, from the 612.) Give it a retro red and white racing paint scheme maybe, and some minor interior upgrades, ie. keep the classic dash, but drop in modern racing buckets and harnesses.

This would be along the same lines as, say, a pro-touring '69 Camaro--classic looks, late model chassis, LS1 swap, that sort of thing. A tribute to a classic.

And of course, since we're talking about a model, we don't have to "ruin" a 2.5 million dollar Ferrari. :p
WOW that sounds interesting! The defining of special editon is a special edition of any models, could be 250GTO SE, 288GTO SE, 365 GTB/4 SE etc, etc. And the imaginations could be on any part, a special color scheme or body works , the only limit is your imagination.

EDIT: Oh and I think there's another limited, it'll be a celebrating special edition for the 60th anniversary of ferrari, so the imagination should better be reasonable, for example, if you're planning to do a mixture or redesign body work, you'd better not to join a ferreri face to a skyline body...

Off the top of my head, a 250 GTO with modern chassis components and a late model engine (say, from the 612.) Give it a retro red and white racing paint scheme maybe, and some minor interior upgrades, ie. keep the classic dash, but drop in modern racing buckets and harnesses.

This would be along the same lines as, say, a pro-touring '69 Camaro--classic looks, late model chassis, LS1 swap, that sort of thing. A tribute to a classic.
Maybe it's just my conservative side coming out - but for me that's hardly a "tribute" to 60 years of making one of the greatest marques in automative history :lol:

I'm pro broad rules, but the only thing I'm conservative (any politics ref is accidental... btw when finish w legislation? :evillol::evillol::evillol::evillol:) is talking of Ferraris, to see an "hotrod" 250GTO is like to see pizza with chocolate, Monica Bellucci naked with beard, Valentino Rossi at Scuderia Ferrari :evillol:,

BTW I have and idea, may be cool: to agree and design a windscreen strip and license plates to use in all '60 group builds entries: we'll share file to do custom decals or give to print by ALPS to a service and send by post to guys.

I seems a decent way to celebrate..

Something like the "Challange Stradale" graphic.

I like it! I mean Tang's idea and Gio's idea.

A group build would be nice! I nutted when I saw gionc's 575 GTO! I want-a to make something like it! Will it be limited to the 599? or the FXX? Or any ferrari?

geez, I guess my idea was shot down awful quick...

Hmm... 250 GTO with a modern Ferrari engine would be blaspheme? How about a 1980s 400i with a 612 Scaglietti drivetrain then? Is it blaspheme to improve a poor Ferrari? :p

http://www.chooseyouritem.com/exotics/photos/120000/120066.jpg

That's a killer idea gio! I've the same thought to make custom plate decals for MCR(you know what's that~~~ :lol:). Will be quite nice!!!

Rod k2: no will be no limited to any appointed model, as uncle stevenski said:Build a Ferrari in any way you want to commemorate 60 years!

PS: I agree with gio on styling.

I could see a group build- but I don't think I could get excited about limiting it to 2 or 3 kits. Sure, we could all do FXX's, but as many among us (me! me!) would feel it blasphemous to mod it, it would simply be a small group of us trying to one up each other in detailing it. Isn't this already happening anyway? I saw my first 599 this weekend- it's better looking in person than I expected, but it doesn't embody what I think of as the spirit of 60 years of Ferrari.

I think a much more interesting and fitting tribute would be for us as a group to build as many individual models of significant Ferraris from the past 60 years- all factory stock (not necissarily box stock!), and all in factory colors. Specially designed PE or decal 60th aniversary license plates would be a good way to tie them all together. Ideally, the 'big four' (Enzo, F50, F40, 288) plus the FXX should be covered, and as many other 'significant' Ferraris as people wish to build. And then a year from now when they're all done, we make a gallery here of them all.

A 599 with some throw back spoked wheels ala 250 would be good. Even remodeling the front end with 250 headlights or something like that. If not, I like MPWR's idea so far. Have everyone complete an oob favorite like the F40, F50, Enzo, etc.... That would look great.

Your idea is constructive and feasible Andy, thank you for giving us that . But I have a question, if we count 10 cars in, so there'll be only 10 entries? There're so many cars were made by ferrari through 60 years but only countable scale models of them, and we have to choose the "most important or significative ones" right? So maybe we couldn't have many. And if we allow one entry of each model we chose the project won't go that popular as we expected and we could loss a lot of fun. But if we allow multi-entries of each model the matter could be like this: many handy models with same factory stock looks, for example we could have many 360s or enzos or any other popular Tamiya or Fujimi kits. And another problem is maybe not everyone can design PE, and even not everyone loves PE.(just for example)

In that case my opinion could probably go with FREEDOM. Let's encourage imaginations, let's express what we want to , and do it in our own way. Your machining works are amazing and so does someone else's hand scratchbuild or pianting tricks, isn't it?:wink:

Tang. I don't think you quite understood what Andy was saying. If I understood correctly he was saying the same as me.

Do any stock Ferrari you feel like doing (INCLUDING F1 IMO). Be as detailed or not as you want. No one "claims" the rights to any particular model (i.e. if by some strange coincidence we end up with ten builds of 360s - so be it).

With regards modding a Ferrari. I guess, if that's someone's personal way of paying a tribute to 60 years of automotive excellence. then... why not? ( I hate the idea of tinkering with a classic street car but that's just ME)

Most importantly though, I do not see the need for any a priori restrictions for a project like this.

In a nut shell - "Build any Ferrari any way you want"

Over and Out :D

Tang. I don't think you quite understood what Andy was saying. If I understood correctly he was saying the same as me.

Do any stock Ferrari you feel like doing (INCLUDING F1 IMO). Be as detailed or not as you want. No one "claims" the rights to any particular model (i.e. if by some strange coincidence we end up with ten builds of 360s - so be it).

With regards modding a Ferrari. I guess, if that's someone's personal way of paying a tribute to 60 years of automotive excellence. then... why not? ( I hate the idea of tinkering with a classic street car but that's just ME)

Most importantly though, I do not see the need for any a priori restrictions for a project like this.

In a nut shell - "Build any Ferrari any way you want"

Over and Out :D

:2cents:

I think the cerebration should include all Ferraris, but IN ADDITION, I thought a fleet of the Challenge cars would be an interesting sub-category. Then, I realized that we only need 31 FXXs, so that might be more reasonable since some have already started or even finished. I'll take the pearl white No.17 (146356), if no one has done it yet.:)
http://www.iwu.edu/~wwaltz/fxx/reg.htm (http://www.iwu.edu/%7Ewwaltz/fxx/reg.htm)
http://www.scuderiaferrari.pl/modele/drogowe/enzo/fxx/registry/

BTW, does the Dino count?

What about converting a normal enzo to the p4/5, anyone :grinno:? That would be awesome!!!

http://www.supercars.net/carpics/3456/2006_Ferrari_P45byPininfarina2.jpg

That in broad terms what I mean:

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/ferrari-new-333-sp.jpg

I'd be in on a group build, I must have about a dozen Ferrari's waiting to be built. I would probably do a 288GTO or a 246GTS or a 575 SuperAmerica or a 360 Spider or a F355GTS or a 348ts or a F40 or a Enzo or a FXX or a 599 or a....dammit I can't decide, so many wonderful Ferrari's!

how about everyone builds their personal favorite, and they're tied together the way MPWR suggested?

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/ferrari-new-333-sp.jpg
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i have joined the build. now all i need is a model. i am going to try to convey the original image of Ferrari with modern sheet metal. or carbon. hmm... 360 or 430. or maybe an enzo or a 612 scagletti. challenge paint as someone mentioned earlier.