Bill Brown in the Scuderia Veloce Ferrari 350 Can Am – aka P4 – at Bathurst during the 1968 Easter meeting. Such a marvellous evocative shot of the most seductive of cars.
In the space of a week photographs popped up on Bob Williamson’s FB site on Scuderia Veloce topics from three different photographers, Ray Sinclair, Greg Earle and Robert Spence.
In the shot below the scowling Kiwi is motoring through the Sandown paddock, perhaps miffed that his 4.2-litre 480bhp V12 was beaten by Frank Matich in the Sydneysider’s 4.4-litre Repco V8 powered Matich SR3. See here for a feature on this Ferrari; https://primotipo.com/2015/04/02/ferrari-p4canam-350-0858/
Chris Amon at very sunny Sandown earlier in the year aboard his Ferrari 246T, with a line of Formula Vees behind, with Bib Stillwell arriving at the circuit in the Ford Galaxie.
Chris just failed to pip Jim Clark in the closest of finishes in the Sandown Australian Grand Prix Tasman Cup round the following day, the official margin was one-tenth of a second. With that the Scot took both his last final GP and championship win – the Tasman Cup – aboard his works Lotus 49 Ford DFW. See here for a piece on that weekend; https://primotipo.com/2021/03/06/1968-australian-gp-sandown-2/
350 Can Am in the Sandown paddock. The #7 Brabham is Greg Cusack’s SV machine, the BT23A Repco raced by Jack Brabham the year before. Quickie on the BT23A here; https://primotipo.com/2017/01/04/scuds/
Chris and crew at Surfers Paradise in 1969. Wings have appeared during the previous 12 months and Ferrari, Scuderia Veloce and Chris Amon took a well deserved Tasman Cup win. See here for 1968; https://primotipo.com/2017/07/21/amons-tasman-dino/ and here for 1969; https://primotipo.com/2018/05/01/wings-n-dino-things/
On the blast past the old pit-counter at Sandown, paradise for a young enthusiast, with the V12 howling its fabulous song in third gear.
Amon was given the short back-and-sides by Frank Matich’s Matich SR3 Repco V8 at the three meetings they met in the sportscar Tasman Cup round supports that summer; Warwick Farm, Surfers Paradise and Sandown. I wonder why FM didn’t take the SR3 to Longford to bag the Quadrella?
Credits…
Ray Sinclair, Greg Earle, Robert Spence
Finito…
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Was the P4 considered an endurance racer or modified for sprint racing? Which ever surely the most beautiful creation from Maranello
Barry,
Very much an endurance racer, click on the link to the first article and it’s all there.
At the end of the 1967 endurance championship, which Ferrari won, two of the P4s were modified as Group 7 cars to take in the balance of the Can-Am Cup. They were too heavy and not powerful enough to run with the McLaren M6 Chevs. And yes, sex on wheels for sure.
Mark
May I suggest you should include more on Walter MEDLIN. after all he was the owner of this car for 30 years, far longer than anyone else.
google “Walter MEDLIN FERARRI”
Mark,
The caption under the image above of the Chris Amon Ferrari 246T includes a reference to “Bib Stillwell arriving at the circuit in the Ford Galaxie.” I believe that the car in the photo is actually a 1966 US Ford Fairlane. Please see the ’66 Fairlane brochure at https://xr793.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/1966-Ford-Fairlane-R.pdf
Regards,
Rob B.
Thanks Rob,
I’m afraid this US heavy-metal has always been Muzak to me, invisible!
Hope you are well.
m