Those rear 3/4 shots are SO aggressive! Looks like it's ready to rip something apart.

 

Thanks, guys. It's not at all often that I get to photograph a car like this, so I really enjoyed it.

Funny story: I went there to take pictures for an ad that will feature the car. So I made sure to put my camera on the highest setting, so that the pictures would be huge. Well "highest setting" doesn't exactly mean highest resolution - that was a different setting that I never touched. So the pictures were huge and grainy; a complete waste of time from the ad perspective.

 

Great pics Carb, what a classic !

Any details on the car ?

 

So you had it set on largest picture size, but not sharpest quality? That sucks!!

Thanks for sharing the pics, btw.

 

Thanks, buddy. Car used to be in Spain - got here five weeks ago. If you want to know more, just holla atcha boy.

Yeah, I'm not the brightest rhinestone on the kerchief. Oh well - I think I need a new camera anyway. Over the weekend, I played with the highest quality settings and the pictures were still grainy.

 

BUT what is going to happen to the rest of the photos???
poor poor pix, well no one ever see them?

 

I <3 it!

 

Okay, there was an ongoing discussion about the names GTO, 288, and 288 GTO, on FerrariChat. I e-mailed Gianni Rogliatti and, much to my extreme pleasure, he replied, once and for all clearing up the ambiguity of this super car's name.

When the car was first being made, Ferrari tossed around the idea of calling it the 288 - at the time, the thought was that this name would go in line with names of the other models, i.e., 308, 328, etc. As the car neared completion, Ferrari sent all sorts of documentation to the press. Said documentation contained the name GTO, because after all of the development, the name GTO seemed more fitting of the product.

So, even though it's been widely regarded that the name "288" became more of a colloquial reference to the GTO after the fact, it was the first iteration of the car's name. But the moniker was abandoned in favor of a more regal name, GTO, after it was completed. So, back then, since then, today, and forever, the official name is simply GTO, despite the fact that each GTO's VIN plate still reads 288 GTO.


Now, for some added trivia, the GTO's engine name is F114B. Each Ferrari's engine gets its own name. For example, we all knew the California's engine name before we knew the name of the car: F149. Everyone knows the Enzo's engine name: F140B. The 360 is F131B, the 355 is F129C, the 575M is F133 E, the 599 is F140C, the 430 Scuderia is F136ED, and so forth.

The "B" in the GTO's engine's name infers that it's an evolution of another engine (i.e., F114A). But there is no other Ferrari whose engine name is F114 or F114A. So who can tell me why the GTO's engine's name is F114B (as opposed to, simply, F114)...? I think I can finagle a Universal Autosports t-shirt for the first person to come up with the right answer.

 

Any pix of the front??

 

Here are some...