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The Ferrari 250 MM by Bill Devin - recycling and glamor

Name: Ferrari 250 MM Berlinetta Pininfarina 1953
Brand: Ferrari

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Created on August 6, 2014

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Bruno von Rotz

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Bonhams

Bruno von Rotz

Guillaume Tassart

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Bonhams

Bruno von Rotz

Guillaume Tassart

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Ferrari 250 Mille Miglia Berlinetta (1953) - at the Bonhams Quail Lodge auction on August 14/15, 2014 as lot 006

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Ferrari 250 MM (1953) - during a race in the fifties - owner Bill Devin

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Ferrari 250 MM (1953) - taken in the eighties

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Ferrari 250 MM Pininfarina (1953) - at the Geneva Motor Show 1953

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Ferrari 250 MM Pininfarina (1953) - aerodynamics were important, which can be seen above all in the front design

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Ferrari 250 MM Pininfarina (1953) - coupé built for racing

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Ferrari 250 MM (1952) - the cylinder head of the V12 Colombo engine

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Ferrari 250 MM (1953) - Hans Wirz from Effretikon on the ex-Paolo Marzotto 3-liter Mille Miglia car at the mountain race from Mitholz to Kandersteg in 1957

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Ferrari 250 MM (1953) - taken at the beginning of the nineties

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Ferrari 250 MM Vignale Spider (1953) - at the Concours d'Elégance of the Schloss Bensberg Classics 2014

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Ferrari 250 MM Berlinetta Pininf Farina (1953) - at the Mille Miglia 2014

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Summary

Phil Hill, Ornella Muti and Bill Devin sat behind the wheel of the Ferrari 250 MM from 1953, which has a long racing and exhibition career behind it with chassis number 0312 MM. The white-blue coupé is one of 17 Berlinetta variants built, which were designed by Battista Pinin Farina and marked the beginning of a long collaboration between Enzo Ferrari and Pininfarina. This article portrays the high-performance coupé using new and historical images and tells the story of this unique model.

This article contains the following chapters

Modular system
Fast and reasonably successful
Almost a dishwasher's story
From red to white and blue
And Ornella Muti too
Further information

Estimated reading time: 6min

Preview (beginning of the article)

Recycling may not have been part of Enzo Ferrari's vocabulary 60 years ago, but in principle it was exactly what he did when he refreshed his racing cars after hard factory work and passed them on to private buyers. The Ferrari 250 MM was one of the cars that ended up in the hands of more or less talented private drivers. The Ferrari 250 MM was created as a production racing car based on the Ferrari 250 S, with which Giovanni Bracco was able to finish the Mille Migla victoriously in 1952. The 250 S had its roots in the Ferrari 225S, but featured a Colombo V12 engine bored out to 2953 cm3. In the 250 MM, this engine then produced 240 hp at 7,200 rpm and was coupled with a synchronized four-speed gearbox.

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