Sunday, August 24, 2014

The First Ferrari - The Type 125S

The first Ferrari was the Type 125S.  It made its debut in 1947 and was powered by a 1.5 liter V-12 engine.  It won 6 of 14 races that year including the Grand Prix of Rome.

By Herranderssvensson (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

 The Ferrari 125S came in a Spyder Corsa version and a full-bodied roadster version.  The Roadster version is readily available as a die-cast car.




Here is a Ferrari 125s seting forth into traffic as part of a relay:

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