Yup, and it is not an actual LM. It is a regular F40 with some LM parts added. Either way, what an AMAZING looking car.

 

Just read all the 97 pages, so epic car ! the v8 TT is clearly the engine designed for the future supercars too.

surprised i didn't see any pics of the white liberty walk f40, it's a love it or hate it car but i'm in love, the best of two worlds : the finest car from Europa and the finest tuning from japan : enkei, quantum, roberuta, titanium all around ...















and the F50

 

Good friend had his F40LM out at PBIR/Cavallino this week....genuine LM with competition history. Love the sound of the straight gears and acceleration

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1biJgq36T8

 

Some serious mods there, love the look of the F40. The F50 looks overdone on the rear, but its tough not to like white !

 

Man that sounds good! What s/n is that car? Is that the one with the IMSA spec vents over the front wheels?

 

Its 79891...one of two full competition spec LM's...ex Laffite/Haywood

Lot Details

The Ex- Jean-Pierre Jabouille/ Jean-Louis Schlesser/ Olivier Grouillard/ Jacques Lafitte/ Hurley Haywood/ Michel Ferte
1990 Ferrari F40 LM Competition Berlinetta
Coachwork by Pininfarina
Chassis no. ZFFGX34X0K0079891
· One of two full competition specification F40 LMs built
· Top level period racing history with international calibre drivers
· Maintained in ready-to-race condition
· Eligible for Ferrari Challenge and historic GT1 events

For Ferrari’s fortieth anniversary as a constructor under his own name he gave his design team a very simple instruction: “Build a car to be the best in the world.” Time has shown that they complied.
The F40 was a simple machine that, like the greatest Ferraris of the past, relied upon its engine for its performance. Suspension and layout were conventional and there were no serious attempts to employ cutting edge technology. The F40 was good, sound, basic design with a superb twin turbocharged engine, aerodynamics heavily weighted toward downforce and stability and generous use of lightweight composite materials. Electronics were important, but they served the engine only. There was no ABS, no traction control, no electro-hydraulic paddle shifting and no stability control.
The chassis was, like the Ferrari 125 built forty years before, based upon two large diameter steel tubes. They were joined and stiffened by lightweight composite structures, to be sure, but the basic structure was as rudimentary as the ones welded together in the Gilco shops a generation earlier.
With a 201 mph top speed and sub-4.0 second 0-60 time, no one was disappointed with the F40. Even the aggressive rear wing was accepted as necessary for aerodynamic stability and in deference to Pininfarina’s history with Ferrari and its wind tunnel testing and development of the F40’s design.
Ferrari proposed only a limited run of 400 or so F40s but the model’s reception was overwhelming, even at over $250,000 apiece, and the run kept growing until 1,315 were built by the time production ended in 1991.
Competition was not in Ferrari’s original plan for the F40 but Daniel Marin, managing director of French Ferrari importer Charles Pozzi SA, took the initiative and induced Ferrari to authorize Michelotto, the famed Padova Ferrari service centre whose previous credits included the 308 GTB Group 4 and Group B racing cars, to construct a series of F40 LMs for racing under IMSA rules in the U.S. Just nineteen were built, although only the first two, destined for Pozzi, were actually raced to any significant extent. By way of comparison with another great racing GT from an earlier generation, the two Pozzi racers are to other F40 LMs what ‘1 VEV’ and ‘2 VEV’ are to other Aston Martin DB4GT Zagatos, of which there were also nineteen. Do not confuse this F40 LM with a ‘plain vanilla’ customer version.
Chassis ‘79891’ is the second of the two Pozzi F40 LMs. Records show it was completed by Michelotto on 16th January 1990. Although it was raced in North America that season by Pozzi under the Ferrari-France banner along with its sister, chassis ‘79890’, it remained under Ferrari’s ownership and wasn’t formally delivered to Pozzi until 25th January 1991.
Driven by an impressive roster of international sprint and endurance star drivers including Jean-Pierre Jabouille, Jean-Louis Schlesser, Olivier Grouillard, Jacques Lafitte, Hurley Haywood and Michel Ferte, it scored two podium finishes, third at Mid-Ohio in June with Jabouille/ Grouillard and second at Mosport with Lafitte/ Haywood just two weeks later, in its five race appearances.
As a factory-backed development car it benefits from a series of enhancements and upgrades including titanium connecting rods and 9:1 compression ratio pistons giving its twin turbocharged, intercooled engine a breathtaking 850 horsepower at 7,500 rpm. That translates into a top speed of 367 km per hour (228 mph).
Ferrari F40 LM ‘79891’ was retained by Ch. Pozzi SA until its present Swiss owner was able to acquire it in 2003. Throughout its life ‘79891’ has been carefully and consistently maintained in as-raced condition. It retains its original F120B engine (number ‘02’), has been certified authentic by Ferrari Classiche in March 2007 and has its FIA Identity papers.
In addition to its important competition history and originality, this Ferrari F40 LM and its sibling ‘79890’ (still owned by Pozzi) established a successful pattern for design, modification, construction, development and racing of Ferrari GT and sports-racing cars in the modern era. From these two F40 LMs sprang a new generation of two-seat Ferrari competition cars, from the 333SP to today’s victorious F430 GT2.
Ferrari F40 LM ‘79891’ represents a singularly important milestone in Ferrari history. It is eligible for, and competitive in, a wide variety of historic and Ferrari events and its status as one of the original run of factory-built Ferrari F40 LMs means it is one of very few of these exciting automobiles which will ever be eligible for Ferrari Classiche certification and, as of the 2009 race season, participation in the Ferrari-Maserati Challenge series where it should shine.

 

That is one awesome car... very nice pics

 

Wow, what a machine to own!

 

Jas, do you have any pictures of that ex Haywood car?

 

That is incredible. I cannot even imagine the trouble and $$ your buddy went through to attain this piece of history. Made even better that he drives the sh!t out of it, and keeps it in full racing condition . Stories and cars like this serve as inspiration to any car enthusiast.