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This Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona Is A V12 Keepsake
Booted gear lever is unique to UK cars. I’m not sure if it was fitted by the factory for them or fitted at the dealer prior to initial delivery. The UK importer did make some dealer fit changes to cars at the time (notably adding the Ferrari script on the bootlid of 246 Dinos) so I suspect it is the latter.
Beautiful car and a beautiful story. Keep it in the family forever! When I was just out of college I was working in Saddle Brook NJ. There were two other companies in our office building – Sealed Air and Dow. Someone had a red Daytona which was driven to the office occasionally. I think it was a Dow executive. I remember sitting in the parking lot in my company car – a Ford Maverick of all things – and waiting to hear the Daytona start up, warm up then drive away. Nothing else sounds like a Ferrari 12.
This brings back wonderful memories of playing with a similar Daytona last summer. The owner, much like Matthew, uses his car like it is a car, albeit a rather special one.
Great video as always. Beautiful car with soundtrack to match. And that Matthew fellow seems like a really nice guy.
Matthew, Congratulations ! You use the Daytona as it was meant to be used. I drove my Daytona 60′ k’s in the last 6 years and there is no better car on Long 1’000km journeys a day than the Daytona. Just feel the seats…..! Thanks for a great Portrait and congrats again ! P.S. one critic to General observations about the Daytona: The steering on the Daytona is not heavy, only the muscles should be appropriate..;-))
Haven’t watched the video yet. Nearly 30 years ago my wife asked about my favorite car and that’s how I came to receive a bespoke watercolor of a 365 GTB/4 for my thirtieth birthday. This is a little too close to – well, it’s exactly – my dream of a daily driver Daytona. If you hear muffled sniffling in the next few minutes, that’ll be me.
Thank you for the kind comments, Jim and Andrew, I’m really pleased with how the video came out, not least because it was freezing cold the day we shot it (why the driving gloves are still on in the interview 🙂 )
Huge thanks to the Petrolicious team especially the film crew – Charlie and Yannick.
