let's start a new series while Michael is still touring Italy...
by Matthias Urban

After finishing the spotter's job at MM 2013, Michael and Berthold, our two friends of the Ferrari Model Club, stay in Italy spending a holiday. As you may estimate, a spotter's work is a welcome part of this as well.

On Saturday the folks visited the museums in Maranello (Museo Ferrari, the ex-Galleria) and Modena (Museo Casa Enzo Ferrari). Both venues are highly recommended to everybody going to the Prancing Horses birth place.

Museo Casa Enzo Ferrari is running a Formula 1-exhibition. As the Museo is not focused on Ferrari alone, the five Ferrari-exhibits are joined by Alfas, McLarens, Mercedes and Tecnos.

Museo Ferrari is currently running an exhibition called "Ferrari Supercar – Tecnica, Design, Mito“ and it will make you breathless!

I will share one or another picture from Michael over the next days with small stories about the exhibits attached.

Our subscribers know from looking up Enzos in F-Register’s database as well as the readers of “The Chronicle” know from our report about the Enzo’s anniversary that one of the prototypes is well known being constructed on a 348 wearing F140*M3*90865 – we will feature this car’s history again over the next weeks. What a surprise it was when Michael came up with a picture of F140*M1*95451, a second Enzo prototype, again obviously created on a 348! The common knowledge of the community has it that #95451 was advertised being a 348 Spider in Rosso Corsa/Beige in a FCA News Bulletin in 2006!

We are used to pose questions when it comes to Ferraris and Serial Numbers, here are those about #95451:

Was the FCA advert a typo or is #95451 a serial number of multiple use? In 2006 all Enzos have been completed and sold. It would be strange, if #95451 would have been a Spider in 2006 when the chassis was used for an Enzo prototype.

If you look at the red one’s serial number that includes “M3” and compare it to #95451’s S/N that includes “M1” – would it be wrong to assume, that there is “M2” in existence as well?

However, enjoy Michael’s picture of #95451 that is shown in our “Picture Box” and you probably may occasionally visit FMC’s website at www.ferrarimodelclub.de, it’s worth it!