\u201cI wanted to experience what they experienced, and I didn\u2019t know any other way to do it except by trying to build a car like they had,\u201d says Peter Giacobbi, builder and owner of this incredible 1959 Ferrari 250 TR recreation.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s right: recreation. A master fabricator, engineer, and builder, Giacobbi made this car in order to understand what his boyhood heroes like Juan Manuel Fangio and Graham Hill experienced when driving cars like the Ferrari 250 TR.<\/p>\n
His favorite design on any car ever, the project swung into high gear after finding a handmade aluminum body for a \u201959 TR that had been sitting for decades. From there, Giacobbi began to figure out what he needed in order to complete the car.<\/p>\n
\u201cI made everything look as close as possible\u2026I copied the chassis, found the correct tail lights, had the instruments made\u2026\u201d \u201cThere are some things that are different from the original. It was impossible to find a good 3 litre motor, so I used a 4.4 and modified the aesthetics to look like the 250\u2026\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
He says that the car is very exciting, especially considering that it weighs 2,300 lbs and has 400 horsepower. \u201cThese cars are very hard to drive\u2026It\u2019s pure seat of the pants,\u201d Giacobbi says.<\/p>\n
\u201cI drive it as much as I can, I drive it down to the local coffee shop usually once or twice a week,\u201d he says. But on any road\u2014headed to any destination\u2014his respect for racing greats is apparent, saying, \u201cThey\u2019re not only heroes, they\u2019re supermen to have driven at the high speeds for the distances they did is an absolute miracle.\u201d<\/p>\n