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When road tested competitively against the Lamborghini Miura, the
Mercedes-Benz 350 SL, the Jaguar V12 E-Type and the De Tomaso
Pantera, the Ferrari 365 GTB/4 was the fastest of the five at 278km/h
- 172mph – and the fastest accelerating with a 13.8 second
standing-start 400-metre time and 24.3secs for the standing-start
kilometre. This despite its closest competitor, the Miura, being not
only lighter – at 2,745lbs versus 3,571lbs – but also more powerful,
its V12 engine being rated at 385bhp against the Ferrari’s 352.
Production of the now legendary Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona ran to
something over 1,300 including both Berlinetta and sister Spider
versions and it is predictably held in the most tremendous regard
today throughout the classic and Historic car world.
This Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona Berlinetta was completed new at
Maranello on June 19, 1970, and was delivered to official dealer
Motor Sas di Carla Allegretti e C of Bologna, Italy. They sold it to first
owner Giuseppe Minganti e C. SpA, of Via Liberazione, Bologna,
Italy, for a declared price of Lire 8,400,000. On July 1, 1970, it was
registered in Bologna as ‘BO 421277’ and on November 9 that
same year it was serviced by the Ferrari factory Assistenza Clienti in
Modena’s Viale Trento Trieste.
Returning there on January 26, 1971, its odometer reading was
recorded as 5,604kms. For a third service on July 2, 1971 – to
factory order number 373G and factory delivery note 4463, its
odometer reading was already up to 14,941kms – evidently the car
was in regular and enthusiastic use.On March 11, 1976, the car was sold by Minganti to only its second
owner – which was Fabrizio Violati’s Bellancauto SpA of Rome.
Ahead of it lay some 38 years of Violati ownership, the vast majority
of which would be spent as one of the exhibits within the Italian
enthusiast’s extensive Collezione Maranello Rosso displays in San
Marino and at neighbouring Falciano.The car is offered as a standard production Ferrari Daytona still in its
gorgeous original Blu Sera 106-A-18 shade of rich dark blue. It is a
plexiglass enclosed headlamp car, the plexiglass itself being partly
broken. It has matching chassis and engine numbers, the stamps
struck with perfect fonts. The engine bay firewall data plate is intact
and original, as is the bonnet insulation mat.