Ferrari Sports Car Books - History and Models

Ferrari 75 Years

A stellar combination of beauty, engineering, racing success, exclusivity, and Italian flair combine to make Ferrari the world's most legendary carmaker. All these traits coalesce in the form of Ferrari's road cars. No other sports car manufacturer has so consistently set the bar for style and performance. It's a near unbroken 75-year run of automotive hits:
- The 125S in 1947
- The versatile 340 in the 1950s
- The stunning 250s and 275s of the 1960s
- The Daytona in the 1970s
- The shocking F40 in the 1990s
- The modern era's outrageous hypercars like the Enzo, F8, and LaFerrari.

This book dives deep into Ferrari's sports car history beginning in 1947, but also examines Enzo Ferrari's early career with Alfa-Romeo before he launched his legendary company.

Automotive historian and photographer Dennis Adler offers Ferrari owners and fans a full and fascinating picture of Maranello's 75 years of sports car manufacturing. Adler's detailed text is accompanied by his breathtaking photography and supplemented by important historic images.

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Ferrari Hypercars - The Inside Story of Maranello's Fastest, Rarest Road Cars

For over 60 years, Ferrari has produced cars that fire the imaginations of car lovers worldwide. Embodying the perfect combination of beauty, performance, exclusivity, and Italian flair, its vehicles have made it the world's most iconic carmaker. Though Ferrari has always produced road cars, the company has first and foremost focused on competition models, such as the handful of cars built in low-number serial production that campaigned on race courses the world over in the 1950s and 60s.
In "Ferrari Hypercars: The Story of Maranello's Fastest, Rarest Road Cars", author Winston Goodfellow profiles some of Ferrari's top creations - vehicles so startling in their performance capabilities that they surpass modern terms and attain the status of "hypercar."

This book begins by reaching back to the 1950s to establish the lineage of hypercars and goes on to showcase the best known examples since the 288 GTO, including the F40, F50, Enzo, and all-new la Ferrari. These cars were collector vehicles from the moment they rolled off the production line, though that was never the reason for their creation; they were made to be driven. A necessary read for any racing fan, "Ferrari Hypercars" exhaustively traces the history of the company's competition vehicles and establishes its status as a symbol for speed, luxury, and wealth.

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Ferrari Serial Numbers - Odd Numbered Sequence to 21399

A revised and updated VelocePress edition of Hilary A. Raab Jr.'s "Ferrari Serial Numbers Part I" that covers all of the odd-numbered Ferraris (normally reserved for the Ferrari street cars) to serial number 21399.

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Ferrari Serial Numbers Part II - Even Numbered Sequence to Serial Number 1050

The title covers the even numbered Ferrari chassis (racing cars) through serial number 1050. Compiled in 1989 by preeminent Ferrari Historians Hilary Raab and Dyke Ridgley, the title is the definitive serial number database.
The edition presented here is unchanged from the original 1989 version and has not been updated. While some of the information regarding the cars has subsequently changed, the title is still a unique and invaluable reference work for the serious Ferrari Historian.

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Ferrari 75 (1947-2022)

Ferrari means bewitching shapes, thundering 8- and 12-cylinder engines and sporting successes. During his long career as a photographer, Günther Raupp took pictures of almost all of these legendary cars.

The results of his eye-catching style and perfect technique are more than just plain photos. They show the car's soul. This personal choice from 75 Ferrari years makes the brand's history come alive, with Jürgen Lewandowski giving an expert presentation of the history, from the founding by Enzo Ferrari until today.

• Exceptional illustrated book, opulent and strictly limited edition: photos of racing cars and road cars from 75 years of Ferrari history
• The best Ferrari models, from early racing cars to modern hypercars, e.g. the Ferrari 250 GTO and Ferrari LaFerrari
• Expert texts by Jürgen Lewandowski: all about the global brand Ferrari, bilingual in German and English
• Exquisite Ferrari photos from Günther Raupp's archive and a portrait of the popular car photographer.

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The Ferrari Book - Passion for Design

Success is not founded on miracles, but is almost always the product of a clear concept-the pinnacle of an ambitious, even stridently innovative idea. However, the aura of Ferrari does indeed approach the miraculous.
What lies behind this phenomenon? What is the source of fascination for a brand whose creative designs are internationally recognized and enthusiastically received?

First, even today-70 years after the company was founded-the miracle of Ferrari is still due in large part to the personality of Il Commendatore, Enzo Ferrari.
Patience, passion, and being hard on himself and those around him gave the brand, under the emblem of the Cavallino Rampante, the power to become what it is today: sheer fascination on four wheels.

Second, the long list of international racing victories is equally important. There is no class, no competition, that Ferrari did not set its sights on and win more or less immediately during the company's last 70 years.

Finally, Ferrari is synonymous with aesthetics, elegance, and trend-setting design. The true value of a brand and its products is measured in the currency of impassioned devotion. This is the third and perhaps most vital element confirming the Ferrari miracle.

"The Ferrari Book - Passion for Design" traces the evolution of the miracle and lets us experience passion given automotive form in a large and engrossing format.

- On over 400 pages, editor Michael Köckritz, author Jürgen Lewandowski and photographer Michel Zumbrunn get up close and personal with the Ferrari phenomenon: its beauty and sex appeal, its class and power.
- Readers will learn about not only the most popular models, but also the most important designers who have shaped Ferrari.
- Includes many exciting stories and anecdotes surrounding the legendary brand and its automotive icons.
- The attractive design by Charles Blunier & Co. and a clean, uncluttered layout ensure the proper presentation worthy of the vehicles from Maranello.

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Ferrari: The Golden Years - Gli Anni d'Oro (Enlarged edition)

Ferrari's sporting history, from the origins to 1988, the year of Enzo Ferrari's death, narrated in 400 pages and more than 700 photos, most of which previously unpublished and drawn from the publisher's own archive.
More than a book, this is a unique and prestigious document that reviews year by year, from 1947 to 1988, the true sporting epic of Ferrari's Ferrari. Page by page, we find champions of the calibre of Tazio Nuvolari, Alberto Ascari, John Surtees, Niki Lauda, Gilles Villeneuve and many others, who in Formula 1 and elsewhere won world titles at the wheel of unforgettable cars such as the 500 F2, the 158 F1, the Testa Rossa, the 250 GTO, the 330 P4 and the successful 312 T family, from the 1950s through to the late 1980s.

This new enlarged edition includes not only champion drivers, but also the men and the mechanics who lived in close contact with the "Drake". They are described in specific text boxes: from Romolo Tavoni to Mauro Forghieri, from Franco Gozzi to Marco Piccinini, from Ermanno Cuoghi to Giulio Borsari. All accompanied by contextual texts by Leonardo Acerbi, a Ferrari historian of great experience.

The book contains a unique collection of images, many in black and white but also a series of very rare colour shots, the majority by Franco Villani, a great reporter long associated with the Prancing Horse. An album allowing us to relive one of the greatest sporting stories of all time.

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Ferrari by Zagato

1919 was the year in which Ferrari began driving racing cars and Zagato founded his couchworks, and from that moment their paths were to cross on several occasion. Every time Zagato got his hands on a Ferrari chassis, even without the official blessing of Maranello, he succeeded in building a beautiful car.
Even today these "Ferrari by Zagato" are shrouded in a certain air of mistery - not even the coachworks possessed documentation.

This book has bridged the gap.

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Ferrari 70 ans

Discover the evolution of the brand through detailed portraits of its most iconic models from the 212 to La Ferrari, including the legendary 250 275, Daytona, 512BB, 288 GTO, without forgetting the "supercars" like the F40, the F50 and the Enzo...

This book lifts the hood of a story rich in twists and turns, from the beginnings of Enzo Ferrari's career at Alfa Romeo to the world-famous brand that reigns over the hearts of die-hard fans and the less informed alike.
In addition to a very lively history of the Maranello firm, this book brings an expert's perspective on the brand's cars by focusing on a few particularly emblematic models, from the greatest American collections and photographed like stars.

The author rightly reminds us to what extent, since the first car imagined at the end of 1946 with Luigi Chinetti, the United States has always been the most coveted market for Enzo Ferrari.
It is no coincidence that his most conquering models would very early on bear the name "America". It is wise to remember this today at the time of such an important anniversary and "Ferrari 70 ans" skillfully traces these decisive links between the two shores of the Atlantic.

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Ferrari par Pininfarina - technologie et beauté

The partnership between Ferrari and Pininfarina has lasted for half a century, while the Ferrari brand itself is only fifty-five years old. During this period, the vast majority of the models with the "little prancing horse" have been entrusted to Carrozzeria Pininfarina, responsible for creating the dress that would be the final touch to the automotive excellence admired throughout the world.

Such an operation, in the 1950s, was limited to a magnificent treatment of surfaces. Over the years, it has become a most demanding process. The companies in Turin and Maranello have gradually become de facto partners in aerodynamics, engineering, manufacturing, industrialization, and even modern marketing and communication. All this without ever betraying the noblest custom of the Ferrari house, the direct link between racing cars and production cars, between the track and the road.

In this book, Etienne Cornil explores the legend and remembers the style of the Ferraris designed by the Turin coachbuilder between 1952 and today. Of course, these were only a few years, rich in human and historical events, but they were, in terms of automobile design, creativity, communication, beauty of forms, exceptional, even heritage, which the author has perfectly captured. This book also includes many photographs that had never been published before.

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Enzo Ferrari, une vie pour la course (coffret) (Collection Prestige)

Writing a biography of Enzo Ferrari was a bold undertaking; that is probably why this book is not one in the sense that the bias is to leave the man to his secrets with the very clear awareness of the inability to reveal them.
Enzo Ferrari is a summit that one does not climb without difficulty, especially when so many skillful pens have written about him. We will not talk about the Commendatore but simply about his passion for the automobile, the one that reveals him best: racing.

This Prestige book in a box retraces the life of an exceptional man, Enzo Ferrari, totally dedicated to his passion for motor racing. Unpublished period documents from the archives of Ferrari, Alfa Romeo and Bernard Cahier.
About 300 unpublished and high-quality photos that make this book a reference work. Enzo Ferrari, nicknamed "Il Commendatore" ("the commander"), is a major historical figure in the motorsport world on an international level. He has become one of the most famous creators of prestige cars in the world.

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Ferrari - Leidenschaft und Emotionen seit 1947

The story of Ferrari - the man, the company and its fascinating sports cars - is one of the most astonishing in the global automotive industry and the subject of countless publications.

On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the cult brand from Maranello, Dennis Adler uses unique photographs to review the unique history in this book.
The focus is on the trend-setting road vehicles, starting with the 125 S from the pioneering year of 1947 through to the latest models, which will carry Ferrari's fame into the future, even in a changing environment.

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Ferrari - Una leyenda desde 1947

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For more than sixty years, the house of the "Prancing Horse" has designed hundreds of models and created extraordinary sports cars. With numerous world championships and victories worldwide, the history of Ferrari is undoubtedly unparalleled, placing these vehicles at the pinnacle of the automotive universe. This fascinating story is not only about cars but also about men, starting with Enzo Ferrari himself.

In 1947, in Maranello, Italy, with 140 workers and three designed models, Enzo Ferrari embarked on an adventure that has endured to this day. This volume, filled with information and spectacular images, seeks to continue this exciting narrative that still grows on circuits and roads around the world.

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