www.QV500.com - Ferrari 250 GT TdF Berlinetta Part 4: 1958 - Series IV
 

Scaglietti Berlinetta chassis 0925 GT

Ferrari's Series IV Tour de France Berlinetta's were visually almost unchanged from the 15 Scaglietti-bodied '3-louvre' cars built between April 1957 and March '58. In total, 29 Series IV's were completed between February 1958 and March 1959, all receiving Scaglietti's covered headlight bodywork. Minor differences included more upright tail light clusters and a new single louvre sail panel. All but the very earliest cars received bonnets minus pre-creasing for the air induction scoop, some getting a bare aluminium strip running between the wheelbase. A handful of Series IV's were reputedly finished with cut-down windscreens and lower rooflines, but information on these cars is scarce.

   
Set-up wise, although initially still using the Tipo 508 C / 128 C chassis / engine combination, from chassis numbers 0969 GT and 1039 GT respectively, the 508 D chassis and 128 D engines were introduced. As you would expect, no radical alterations were made to these revised components, the new ‘D’ suffix’ denoting improvements in tube location for additional rigidity. Meanwhile, there were lighter con rods, crankshafts and pistons for the engine. Compression was once again varied from car to car, as were the carburettors, this resulting in some examples producing 240bhp whilst others were capable of an output in excess of 260bhp. The chassis numbers of all 29 cars are indexed below.

250 GT LWB Tour de France Berlinetta Series IV
 
0881 GT February 1958, sold new to Antoine D'Assche, Belgium.
0893 GT March 1958, sold new to George Reed, USA.
0895 GT March 1958, sold new to Marchi, Italy.
0897 GT May 1958, sold new to FASF, Italy.
0899 GT March 1958, sold new to Edouardo Lualdi Gabardi, Italy.
0901 GT March 1958, sold new to Francois Picard, France.
0903 GT April 1958, sold new to Sture Nottorp, Sweden.
0905 GT May 1958, sold new to Pietro Ferraro, Italy.
0907 GT May 1958, sold new to Sergio Der Stefanian, Italy.
0909 GT November 1958, sold new to Lambert, Switzerland.
0911 GT May 1958, sold new to Luigi Taramazzo, Italy.
0925 GT July 1958, sold new to Otto Zipper, USA.
0931 GT May 1958, sold new to Ghersi, Italy.
0933 GT June 1958, sold new to Carlo Toselli, Italy.
0967 GT July 1958, sold new to Jon von Neumann, USA.
0969 GT July 1958, sold new to Willy Mairesse, Belgium.
0971 GT September 1958, sold new to Roger Philippe Faure, Switzerland.
0973 GT August 1958, sold new to Claude Bourillot, France.
1031 GT September 1958, sold new to Giacomo Peron, France.
1033 GT September 1958, sold new to Olivier Gendebien, Belgium.
1035 GT February 1959, sold new to Alfonso Gomez-Mena, Cuba.
1037 GT November 1958, sold new to Ettore Chimeri, Venezuela.
1039 GT November 1958, sold new to Hugh Peters, USA.
1113 GT November 1958, sold new to Bill Sturgis, USA.
1127 GT November 1958, sold new to George Reed, USA.
1139 GT December 1958, sold new to Jon von Neumann, USA.
1141 GT December 1958, sold new to Luigi Chinetti, USA.
1143 GT February 1959, sold new to Jean Aumas, Switzerland.
1161 GT March 1959, sold new to Luigi Chinetti, USA.
 

Scaglietti Berlinetta chassis 0925 GT