cold_beer839

Most front engine 2-door hatchback sports cars have similar lines, there are only so many ways to do it. That doesn't mean they copy each other.

Fogey1

Nice page. Great car. Here's one of the achievements that made it so:
http://www.allamericanracers.com/can...recounted.html
CANNONBALL recounted by Dan Gurney

http://www.insideline.com/features/t...-turns-35.html
The Cannonball Run Turns 35

http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/galle...i-Daytona.html
Cannonball Run Ferrari Daytona

We old guys can never forget that.
Dan Gurney For President!

will

By-Tor

Holy s... $950.000...reserve not met.... !!

I knew Daytona Spyders are expensive but damn...

Nicole

Whether that's true or now - it is sure interesting how a similar idea can be interpreted in such different ways.

FBIII

There is some remarkable racing history for a car that was positioned as their luxury GT car.

Achievements and notoriety

In 2004, the Daytona was voted top sports car of the 1970s by Sports Car InternationalSports Car InternationalSports Car International was an automobile magazine in the United States published by Ross Periodicals Inc. that was focused on sports cars. The magazine was published from 1986 to 2008. Its business offices were located in Novato, California....
magazine. Similarly, Motor Trend ClassicMotor TrendMotor Trend is an American automobile magazine. It first appeared in September 1949, issued by Petersen Publishing Company in Los Angeles, and bearing the tag line "The Magazine for a Motoring World". Petersen Publishing was sold to British publisher EMAP in 1998, who sold the former Petersen...
named the 365 GTB/4 and GTS/4 as number two in their list of the ten "Greatest Ferraris of all time".

In 1971, the Daytona gained notoriety when one was driven by Dan GurneyDan GurneyDaniel Sexton Gurney is an American racing driver, race car constructor, and team owner.The son of a Metropolitan Opera star, he was born in Port Jefferson, New York, but moved to California as a teenager...
and Brock YatesBrock YatesBrock Yates is an American journalist and author. He was longtime executive editor of Car and Driver, an American automotive magazine. He was a pit reporter for CBS' coverage of certain NASCAR Sprint Cup series races in the 1980s, including the Daytona 500...
in the inaugural Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy DashCannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy DashThe Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, widely known simply as the Cannonball Baker or Cannonball Run, was an unofficial, if not outlaw, automobile race run four times in the 1970s from New York City and Darien, CT, on the US Atlantic coast, to Redondo Beach, a Los Angeles...
. The pair won with an average speed of , completing the distance from New YorkNew YorkNew York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
to L.A.Los ÁngelesLos Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the municipality of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
in 35 hours 54 minutes .

Competition versions

The first racing version of the 365GTB/4 was prepared in 1969: an aluminium bodied car was built and entered in the Le Mans 24 hour race that year (the car crashed in practice). Ferrari did not produce an official competition car until late in 1970.

The official cars were built in three batches of five cars each, in 1970-1, 1972 and 1973. They all featured a lightweight body making use of aluminium and fibreglass panels, with plexiglas windows. The engine was unchanged from the road car in the first batch of competition cars, but tuned in the latter two batches (to in 1972 and then around in 1973).

The cars were not raced by the official Scuderia FerrariScuderia FerrariScuderia Ferrari is the racing team division of the Ferrari automobile company. The team currently only races in Formula One but has competed in numerous classes of motorsport since its formation in 1929, including sportscar racing....
team, but by a range of private entrants. They enjoyed particular success in the 24 Hours of Le Mans24 Hours of Le MansThe 24 Hours of Le Mans is the world's oldest sports car race in endurance racing, held annually since near the town of Le Mans, Sarthe, France...
, with results including a 5th overall in 1971, followed by GT class wins in 1972, 1973 and 1974. In 1972 Ferrari 365 GTB/4s took the first 5 places of the GT class.

The final major success of the car was in 1979 (five years after production ended), when a 1973 car achieved a class victory (2nd overall) in the 24 Hours of Daytona

Vilhuer

$1.5M asking price (few k miles driven all original Arizona car) and $1M selling price was first seen in 1989 I think. Then priced dropped to @300k in mid nineties and have since moved back up to $1M for best cars. Now there is much larger difference between original spyders and converted coupes. Originals are at least 3x more expensive than chop tops when in eighties difference was around 1.5 to 2x.

Real bargains of early seventies Ferraris are 365GTC/4 and 365 GT4 2+2. GTC/4 gives 90% of Daytona performance at 1/3 price. If 928 were made in '71 it would have competed against GTC/4 more than Daytona even though GTC/4 has gearbox at front.

http://www.autotraderclassics.com/cl...ationId=406565

danglerb

I've always admired the Ferrari's, but never had any interest in owning one. They strike me as a car that has a tinkered evolution as opposed to engineering. The 928 is almost the opposite.

niche

I don't see what's so appealing about Daytona... not a pretty car in my opinion. Looks like a 240zx

GeorgeM

I wouldn't buy that POS... FRAM filters suck... YGTBSM!

928GTSM

Don't get me wrong I like my 928 but you'd need to seriously visually impaired to think the Daytona isn't a better looking car and sorry but the V12 Ferrari engine sounds much nicer too. As a practical everyday car the 928 beats most Ferrari's hands down but the one's Ferrari got right are truly something special.

odurandina

thanks to post # 28, my image of the 928 is totally blown.

imagine the horror of a guards red LS1 gremlin running the salt flats...

i actually thing there's a many of each other's ideas in the old cobra, jag, daytona, 240z, original 928 etc.

blazing928

hmmmm Daytona, surely has to be one of the most desirable and beautiful cars ever made. My prefernce is the 'Plexiglass' model.Th e lights are behind a cover, where the USA regulaters had to change that.....
Daytona Syder, just even better!
To me a 928 is a new interpretation of a Daytona, they were both to be the BEST GT cars of their day.
I remember getting petrol at Mansfield on the way to take photos of the Mt Buller Sprint [Vic Australia] and a Daytona was filling up. I backed in so we were tail to tail, my two favourite cars, ahh a dream one day!


This Daytona I shot at Phillip Island around 1977, my dads Leica, panned own the main straight flat out, what a noise!!



my other front engined transaxle delight, sadly sold....

danglerb

I can't imagine pining away for a Ferrari, and even less imagine any large percentage of 928 owners having any kind of envy for one.

OTOH in SoCal Ferrari ownership isn't much of a badge of distinction, I think a lot of the dotcom stock options came with some kind of coupon for one.

blazing928

I have only driven a few, Dino 246, 308GTB 'glassfibre', BB365, Maranello 550. They are all special cars and deserved of their accolades. A 550 is amazing, a 928 is different - so not a true comparrison, its not a long way away in driving, but the 550 has that something special.
You would need to compare a 928 to a 365GTC, the four seater Daytona, or a 612/456

FBIII

[QUOTE=danglerb;8103712]I can't imagine pining away for a Ferrari, and even less imagine any large percentage of 928 owners having any kind of envy for one.

WTF? If I had the disposable income I'd have a 275 GTB4 parked in front of my Daytona right next to my Miura SV. Sadly the 928 and the AMV8 would be left outside.