The Enzo Ferrari’s 10th Anniversary
On Sept, 28th 2002 a colourful troika hit Paris, not leaving more damage than that that is done by desire. Using the Paris Mondial de l’Automobile as the catwalk, the Factory’s marketing strategists set three glamorous hooks into every Ferraristi’s heart.
#128778, #128783 –spotted in France in 2009- and #129581, this one shown on the Pininfarina stand stayed in France as well and was coated with a matte Black foil in 2010, came in Rosso Corsa, Nero and Giallo Modena and honi soit qui mal y pense that this inflationary presence would be something noticed in the future.
The Enzo Ferrari, a long time called F60 before its launch, was the fourth so called Supercar that Ferrari produced. It did follow the tradition of the (288) GTO, the F40 and the F50. It was scheduled to be produced in a limited run of 399 units. There have been some prototypes, one of those has been the strange conversion on a 348 tb with S/N F140*M3*90865. You can have a look on the car in the Picture Box! #128014 is the official first Enzo and a prototipo as well. The highest Serial Number for an Enzo is #141920. This example, the car was the 399th + 1 example, was produced as a gift for Pope John Paul II and immediately auctioned by RM for charity. And now the story becomes a thriller, the earliest ever Serial Number for an Enzo is… 103820!!! F-Register’s database currently shows 476 examples of the Enzo Ferrari, excluding the M3-prototype! You can easily track all of them if you are a subscribed member to F-Register.com. The cars only showed a plate to be “1 of 399”, there was no more individual numbering like on the F50 and never was seen on cars produced in limited production ever since.
Obviously the Factory did use some early Serial Numbers for some of the 476. The Serial Numbers may have been used from “unused” Serial Numbers or from Serial Numbers used for crash test cars. None of those Serial Numbers appearing on an Enzo are connected with another identified Ferrari.
A very few cars have been crashed –and believe me, if an Enzo crashes heavily, you usually receive three parts back, the front, the cabin and the part that holds the engine-, most of them, if not all of them, have been rebuilt. One of those, #136080, hit a crash barrier in the UAE, has been rebuild as the Gemballa MIG-U1 before the mysterious Gemballa incident. #131320 was crashed heavily and then Targa-converted and showed a completely wrong front! Official dealer Steve Harris from Utah took care and rebuilt the car.
#139744 is the 2006 FXX prototipo and the Maserati MC12 Muletto and it shows model digit “56” within its VIN, ZFFCZ56B000139744, what clearly identifies it being an Enzo Ferrari. The assembly number 77224 is unusually high for the serial number that belongs to the 2004 VIN-range and should better fit a production in spring of 2008.
#134591, the second Enzo in our Picture Box-Series, received some flaps and a FXX-sticker on its nose to appear like a street-legal FXX –believe me, there are one or two in reality, but that’s a different story-, but it is a real Enzo with the question remaining why an owner of a Supercar needs to pimp his car…
Enzos are traded around 1.3 Million USD currently and it looks like one can acquire one if needed. Now, Paris 2012 is ahead and it is obviously only the name is missing yet.