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0152EL 225 Sport Vignale Berlinetta #1/1 52 Rosso Corsa/Beige RHD EU, eng. swapped with #0218AT
New to Frenchman Pierre Boncompagni, who raced successfully under the name of Pagnibon. Before achieving 1st in class at 1952’s Mille Miglia on race # 537 he took four wins out of four entries in Montlhery , Nimes, the Val de Cuech hill climb and the Montlhery Sprint Cup. The engine was swapped with #0218AT in the middle of the year. In the late 50’s the car was acquired by Dr. Ian Reid-Entwistle from Cheshire and stayed in Great Britain with various owners until it showed up with an Italian owner in 1975 and then it was owned by Ennio Gianaroli, who entered it into MM Storico as well as bringing it to the 1995’s Spa Ferrari Days. After being purchased by Emilio Gnutti from Brescia, the car was entered into MM Storico frequently.
0154ED 225 Sport Vignale Spider #1/9 52 Rosso Corsa/Beige RHD EU
0154ED was new to Italian Vittorio Marzotto from Valdagno and will be best remembered for its victory in the 1952 Monaco GP. The original engine was replaced in the 1950s by a 3 litre engine as well as the car received a “nose-modification” that reminded one of the Scaglietti-design before the car was exported to South Africa, where it was raced without success. From 1977 to 2003 the car found a home in Great Britain where is was first owned by Richard Phillips before changing hands to Sir Anthony Bamford who did reunite the car with its original engine in 1997. After a very short stay in the US, Spaniard José Maria Fernandez acquired the car.
0160ED 225 Sport Vignale Spider #2/92/52 Red then French Blue then Red/Tan then medium Blue then dark Red/Beige RHD EU eng. #0160ED
A works car from new it was raced by Piero Taruffi in the 1952 Giro di Sicilia and at Mille Miglia by Clemente Biondetti. The car didn’t finish both races. Count Bruno Sterzi from Milan raced the car at the 1952 Aosta-Gran San Bernardo hill climb before the Factory entered it with Alberto Ascari in the Imola Sportscar Grand Prix. For the next 20 years at least, Argentinean owners are documented. After being restored during a short term ownership in Australia, #0160ED somehow became an “Auction Star” – not less than four auction entries are listed between 1985 an 1995. The car has had various US-owners since Anthony Wang first brought it to the US in 1985.
0162ED 225 Sport Vignale Spider #3/9 52 RHD EU
Very little is known about 0162ED. It was delivered new to Franco Cornacchia from Milano who entered in 1952’s editions of MM on race # 622 and Stella Alpina.
0164ED 225 Sport Vignale Berlinetta #1/3 52 RHD, started first as 166MM/53149
0164ED was one of the 1952 Monaco GP cars and finished 4th. It was owned in 1952 by the French tire company Kleber before being sold to the US. The original engine was removed and replaced later by a restamped 3 litre engine. The car is still in the US today.
0166ED 225 Sport Touring Barchetta #1/1 52 dark Red/Cuoio RHD EU
Being second in the 1952 Monaco Grand Prix the biggest success of the car was obviously winning the Grand Prix of Portugal in the same year, driven by Eugenio Castellotti before being sold to the US as well in 1953. It was not until 1990 that the car stayed with a European owner again before returning once again to the US in the late 1990s.
0168ED 225 Sport Vignale Berlinetta #2/3 52 Red/Black then Brown int. RHD EU, 250 GT engine, eng. in # 0050M/0308
After being owned by Maserati dealer Giuseppe Santi from Rome the car was exported to the US via Chinetti Motors where it stays except of a short presence in Cuba from 1955 to 1957.
0170ET 225 Sport Vignale Tuboscocca Berlinetta 52 Rosso Corsa Nero Roof/Cuoio RHD EU, one of two lightweight "Tuboscocca" Competition Berlinettas, 250 GT Boano eng.
New to Dottore Augusto Caraceni from Rome #0170ET is another MM 1952-entry, but it was a dnf on race #552. It returned to the Factory’s ownership for a short time in 1953 before being sold to the Netherlands and then to the US in 1964. Our friend, Mike Sheehan, owned the car in 1988 and raced the Coppa d'Italia with the car. In the ownership of Swiss Reiner Simon the car was displayed at the Museum Monteverdi and found its way via Australia to Germany where it was once owned by Harald Mergard, the mastermind behind barchetta.cc and anamera.com. The car is still in Germany today, obviously located 30 minutes from our editor’s home.
0172ET 225 Sport Vignale Spider #1/5 52 dark Red then Yellow then dark Red/Brown RHD EU eng. #0869
#0172ET was one of this year’s MM Storico entries, participating on race # 187 and finished on 141st position. Once again an Italian-delivery when new it was owned by Count Paolo Marzotto of Valdagno and was entered in the 1952 MM on race #615, car and driver achieved victories the same year in Coppa d'Oro delle Dolomiti, Giro delle Calabrie and the Circuito di Senigallia race. The car has an Argentinean history as well before it returned to Italy, then to France and finally today, to the Netherlands.
0176ED 225 Sport Vignale Spider #4/9, 52 RHD one-off body, rebodied by Fantuzzi like a Barchetta Touring, rebodied to original Stagnoli Vignale Spider Red/Beige # interno 0263 eng. in #0092
Finishing 3rd in Monaco’s GP in 1952 this car was on one hand unique as it showed a body with wings and on the other hand, it was seriously damaged several times, what led to a Fantuzzi body in the 1970s first before it was restored to original proportions in 1999. The original body was scrapped during Fantuzzi’s rebody activities. The original engine was said to probably being installed in a speed boat. In 1999 has received an unstamped new 225-engine.
0178ED 225 Sport Vignale Berlinetta #3/3 Red RHD EU # interno 0183 destroyed, restored
The car was obviously new in a shade of Red when owned by Count Antonio Sterzi of Milan and started in MM on race # 603 but did not finish. It was more successful in the other 1952 race like Coppa della Toscana, the Bolzano-Mendola hill climb, the Chiusaforte-Sella di Nevea hill climb and the Coppa Inter Europa held in Monza. Having to further Italian owners the car was destroyed by a fire in the 1950s and the remains went to the US where the car was restored without its original engine. Last heard of being restored in the US. The engine has obviously gone to Argentina in 2001.
0180ED 225 Sport Vignale Spider #5/9 52 Yellow RHD EU eng. #0466
Raced extensively by its first two owners from Portugal in 1952 and 1953 the car received eng. #0466 and is obviously in Brazil since the early 1970s.
0190ED 225 Sport Vignale Berlinetta #2/2 52 Blue White Roof then Rosso Scuro then French Blue White Roof/Crema RHD EU eng. #0190
Another this year’s MM Storico entry, # 163, finishing as 237th. 0190ED was sold new to France and second owner, Marius Heyman from Morocco, had a fatal accident with the car when he participated in the Rally Liege-Rome-Liege. The car suffered from fire damage during a hill climb in the late 1950s and the wreck went through several hands before being totally reconstructed in 1999 in Italy. German Michael Willms owned the car from 2003 to 2005, still being Rosso Scuro before being purchased by its current Italian owner and being repainted in French Blue with a White Roof.
0192ET 225 Sport Vignale Spider Tuboscocca #2/5 9/52 Rosso Scuro/Crema RHD EU eng. # 0192ET
Purchased new by Giuseppe Viannini from Milan, who was an Alfa Romeo dealer that operated in Argentina as well. In 1952 the car was sold to José Maria Ibanez from Buenos Aires and 0192ET stayed in Argentina with several owners until 1982 when it returned to Italy. After alternating between several Italian and French owners between 1982 and 2012 the car was purchased at RM’s Monaco Auction by American Leslie Wexner this year.
0194ET 225 Sport Vignale Spider #3/5 5/52 Red then dark Blue & White then Rosso Corsa/Beige cord cloth RHD EU
A Scuderia-car when new, it was entered in MM 1952 with Piero Scotti and Giulio Cantini on race #610. The car is pictured in Prunet’s “La Legende Ferrari”. American Tom Cole purchased the car in 1952 and had it repainted in dark Blue with White accents. Cole died at Le Mans in 1953 and his UK-based brother, Nigel Cole, brought the car to Great Britain where it stayed until Peter Sachs’ purchase in 1977. It was last heard to be with collector Anthony Wang.
0198ET 225 Sport Vignale Spider #4/5 52 Yellow then Black then Rosso Corsa then Yellow/Cuoio RHD EU eng. #0198ET then eng. # 1091GT then 225-eng. stamped # 0198ET, ex-Vasco Sameiro
Another Portuguese car from new, it was extensively raced by its second owner Vasco Sameiro. It was sold to Brazilian Mario Valentim who had the car repainted in Black. The car returned to Europe to a British owner first and after two further French owners, the car came to its owner Hiroshi Yamazaki from Tokyo before it returned to Great Britain to be first owned by David Vine and then Marc Newson who returned the car to its original Yellow livery.
0200ED 225 Sport Vignale Spider #6/9 RHD EU eng. in #0056
Little is known about 0200ED. Some sources say it was delivered new to Portugal what is backed by some pictures we have on hand, showing the car participating in several Portuguese races. The colour is hardly to identify on b/w-pictures.
0214ED 225 Sport Vignale Spider #7/9 52 Rosso Corsa/Red RHD EU
Italian first owner Giovanni Caprara loaned the car to Irish driver Bobbie Baird who shared it with the late Roy Salvadori for races in the UK before the car was sold to an owner in Algeria who subsequently sold the car to Argentinean Carlos Lostaló. In 1989 the car was purchased by American Lynn Larson before Scott Rosen acquired the car in late 1995 before selling it to an unkonown owner who had the car restored by Symbolic of La Jolla.
0216ED 225 Sport Vignale Spider #8/9 52 dark Red Silver sides then dark Red/Beige RHD ex-José Froilan Gonzalez
Last connected with collector Anthony Wang this car was first owned by José Froilan Gonzalez and stayed in Argentina for a long time. First known American owner was David Carroll from Jacksonville in 1982.
0218ET 225 Sport Vignale Spider #5/5 52 Rosso Corsa/Beige RHD eng. from #0198ET then eng. swapped with #0152
First owned by Alfred Momo from New York before sold to William Spear of Manchester (NH) oin 1952 already. Spear raced #0218 in the 12h Sebring in 1953 together with Phil Hill. The car stayed in the US and became not really a movie star, but was obviously used by Hollywood movie makers. It was in bad condition in the early 1980s and fitted with a Chevy engine to be used for drag racing. The original engine was owned by Gary Schonwald from New York who purchased the car. Several American owners followed before collector Carlos Monteverde purchased 0218 in 1996 and owned the car for only a year. It has appeared for sale several times since then.
0220ET 225 Sport Vignale Spider Tubosscoca #9/9 52 destroyed in a barn fire, written off
The car was entered by first owner James H. Kimberly in Sebring’s 12h for 1952 and 1953, with no luck at all. In 1952 the car was withdrawn, whilst in 1953 it did not finish the race. #0220ET was entered in several smaller sports car races in 1952/1953 before it was acquired by Edmund P. Lunken who continued the car’s attendance of smaller sports car events. In 1955 David Biggs purchased the car. #0220ET is one of the few Ferraris that do have a grave. After suffering severe damage in a barn fire –together with #0720TR and an Alfa Romeo 29000B- the chassis was cut in half and thrown into a ravine, a place where a highway was built sometimes later.