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OZZIEFATKID
New User | Posts: 1 | Joined: 07/07
Posted: 07/23/07
05:36 AM

So....here i am ..just finished restoring a 67 convertable mustang...its sunday afternoon and a bit cloudy...flick on the tv and started watching the all time classic...good old ferris....

Then I saw that mok up ferrari that Ive seen over a 100 times, ...and thought to my self...there has to be someone out there with the kit or the molds or the dimensions of the frame to start such a project.

Now...as i can see...it has been discussed before on this site and 21 hours of internet research aint given me any thing but dead ends.

the car or kit that I and alot of other people are trying to find is the 1961 ferrari gt250....also known as a calyspider built by precision engineering in california.

If you surf the web...there are stories(only) of this company still existing, the molds sold to some guy in detriot and then he died...the company is alive and well...even kitcar mag has an article on them and contact details that is now disconected.

DOES ANYONE....REALLY REALLY know where can you get any kind of information on this car, diagrams, who has the molds, anything would be FN great

...and thanks for reading this.  


 
daniola
New User | Posts: 3 | Joined: 06/08
Posted: 06/09/08
08:58 AM

http://www.calspyderii.com/Welcome.html  


 
ekimball
Administrator | Posts: 176 | Joined: 02/07
Posted: 06/09/08
04:29 PM

The funny this is that the one used in the movie was a kit itself.

"It is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up." - Ferris Bueller  


 
SirTweakAlot SirTweakAlot
New User | Posts: 1 | Joined: 01/09
Posted: 01/04/09
06:09 AM

Kit Car mag wrote-
"And here's a historical footnote. We discovered that the last original long-wheelbase version of the California Spyder was completed in February 1960 and sold to Mr. Robert Petersen of Los Angeles. (Ferrari built short-wheelbase models until 1963, with a total limited-production run of about 100 vehicles.) You may recognize that customer's name as the founder of this magazine's parent company, Petersen Publishing. Now we know what Mr. Petersen does on his day off.KC"
  Coincidentally Mr. Petersen is also the name of the guy Ferris' buddy imitates over the phone to the principal and waiter in the movie.