Goodwood2005

The ex-Jerry Grant Ferrari #0704 was driven in 1962 by Art True. Your webmaster saw it race twice looking exactly like this: At the Portland Rose Cup, June 16-17, 1962; and at the "Seafair" event at Pacific Raceway near Kent, Washington on July 28-29, 1962.

The 1958 Sebring winning car (Phil Hill & Peter Collins) has been on exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI, for decades. I never thought I'd see it on the track again!

Who's driving and how did it get to Goodwood?

Author and Ferrari historian David Seielstad tells the story:

"The Ford Museum wanted Old Number 16, the Peter Helk Locomobile that won the Vanderbilt race. When Helk died his son offered to trade Number 16 to the museum for #0704 plus cash.

Young Helk got #0704 and a million or so. He immediately flipped #0704 to big European collector/dealer Abbe Kogan for several million more. Big scandal at Greenfield Village for losing so much money on an unequal trade.

Anyway Kogan has had the car for about seven years now. It has been freshened mechanically. but not given the ground up resto. It still looks as it did when Art True last raced it."

More from historian Vince Howlett:

"At Goodwood, it was driven by classic car specialist Neil Twyman. A while ago,I emailed Simon Taylor to ask if he knows who owns it now. His response: "Can't help you with the owner of the Neil Twyman Testa Rossa, but I suspect it's not him -- I guess he looks after it and exercises it for a wealthy collector." (Abbe Kogan?)