How it all began

When you have read the introduction to f-register.com – and I am sure you did as a careful reader, didn’t you? - you did recognize, that Fujimi’s assembly kit of the 365 GTS/4 Daytona Speciale was the kick for me getting into researching Serial Numbers. The introduction to the manual clearly points out that the kit is a scale model of Pininfarina’s design study for the 1969 Paris salon – in five different languages I have to admit. I am used to three of them.



However, without having read the manual and a broad knowledge about Ferrari at that time beyond judging that the Factory did produce wonderful cars, I wanted to check the authenticity of the car reproduced.

Click here to download the original construction manual from 1988.

The www is an unbeatable invention. It allowed me to look for the car without travelling personally, my mind did instead as you might expect. I found out that the car did have a Serial Number. It was # 12925. To be honest, this was a sole figure, but I thought, if there is one car showing a number, all of them should have an individual stamping. So the ongoing journey through the chronicles of Ferrari started and guess what, the car accompanies me ever since.

By now, the single data of the serial number has been upgraded to many more numerical details and beyond this record:

12925 365 GTB/4 Daytona Speciale Paris Motor Show Car #1/1 9/69 Pininfarina Tourbillon Blu 2448607 White roof/Bianco LHD internal eng. #B200 internal Gearbox #3 ass. sequence #86 Plexiglass Steel Rollbar removable rear window, ex-Matsuda Collection

that you fill find in the Book “The Ferrari Serial Number Manual 1947 – 2007” as well as in f-register.com’s database there is a story like with every car that has a record here inside f-register.com, be it long, be it short, be it a bread and butter-story or a fascinating tale to tell. Dear owners, don’t you worry, the stories about the cars are kept in the closet and only disclosed if you agree. You can sure request f-register.com to share what we have on a certain car individually given a legitimate interest in it. This is referring especially to owners and dealer when compiling the complete history of a certain car.

Nevertheless, this is a “specimen”, given with a car that is special for me; my first Serial Number Ferrari, starter for what Hilary A. Raab called “an ongoing quest that never ends”.

12925 365 GTB/4 Daytona Speciale Paris Motor Show Car #1/1 9/69 Pininfarina Tourbillon Blu 2448607 White roof/Bianco LHD internal eng. #B200 internal Gearbox #3 ass. sequence #86 Plexiglass Steel Rollbar removable rear window, ex-Matsuda Collection