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Had to post this great photo from the 1967 24 Hours of Daytona... Ferrari vs. Ford on the high banks... The North American Race Team #26 Ferrari 412P was driven by Pedro Rodriguez and Jean Guichet while the #1 Ford Mk II was driven by Bruce McLaren and Luicien Bianchi... These cars are still exotic-looking today, some 49 years after they were raced... The Ferrari finished third behind two "factory" Ferraris giving the brand a 1-2-3 sweep that year... The Ford had to pit to change a transmission and finished 7th...
Of the four drivers, only Guichet survived to finish his racing career... Bianchi died while practicing for the 1969 24 Hours of LeMans... McLaren died testing a Can-Am car in 1970... Rodriguez died while driving a Ferrari 512M in a race at Nuremberg, Germany in 1971...
Guichet is now 89 years old but regrets one thing in life... He previously owned one of only thirty-six Ferrari 250 GTO Ferrarissima cars ever produced, originally created by Enzo Ferrari in 1962. The price he got for the car when he sold it in 1967 was $4500... the car sold at auction recently for over 15 million dollars!!!! Bet he wished he held on to that one!
Of the four drivers, only Guichet survived to finish his racing career... Bianchi died while practicing for the 1969 24 Hours of LeMans... McLaren died testing a Can-Am car in 1970... Rodriguez died while driving a Ferrari 512M in a race at Nuremberg, Germany in 1971...
Guichet is now 89 years old but regrets one thing in life... He previously owned one of only thirty-six Ferrari 250 GTO Ferrarissima cars ever produced, originally created by Enzo Ferrari in 1962. The price he got for the car when he sold it in 1967 was $4500... the car sold at auction recently for over 15 million dollars!!!! Bet he wished he held on to that one!
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