(These photos were originally posted in January of 2009 and I was unable to get close enough to the car to get a good idea of what it really was.I mean, I knew it was a Ferrari, but I kind of went in the wrong direction with my guesstimate of it being a 250. A recent entry in Veloce Today about the Modena Track Days at the Nurburgring included a couple of photos of a Pinin Farina 166M one-off that looks very similar to the car below. The gas cap is in a different location, the taillights are different, the steering wheel is on the other side, but otherwise the body shape is oh-so similar to the car that I saw cruising up PCH).
Sometimes, things just seem to work against getting a good photo. Yesterday was a good example. It was a stunningly beautiful Sunday morning, seemingly everyone from the valley and westside wanted to head to Malibu, and the guys were out on their motorcycles with their radar making sure nothing got too out of hand. I saw this older Ferrari and it looked as if someone had put a tremendous amount of effort into its restoration. The color scheme was a little unusual but the looked (and sounded) great. I caught up with it around Las Flores but there was no way to get a shot of the side or front of the car without causing an accident myself. It appears to be an early Ferrari 250, but it would be interesting to find out if it's an earlier model than that.
