When one reads through David's account of the period you can understand why the car's racing career came to an end when it did...
It no longer drew significant starting money and there were by then three or four V8 sports cars which could readily trounce it. Within a short time there would be the Elfin 350 and a pair of Elfin 360s which would also show it a clean pair of heels no matter how well-driven.
Heavily depreciated as its value would have been, David had a bargain-priced toy to take for the odd exciting run. I think I can recall that he once wrote in one of his columns that he took it for a blast around his 'test circuit'... this would have been interesting.
David's road tests in the
Sunday Telegraph always included data from his 'test circuit' and 'hill climb' and he knew these roads well. The circuit was at Coal and Candle Creek in the Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park, the hill climb was a part of that circuit but I don't know the exact details of that.
The circuit, winding through the bush between chain-wire fencing 'protecting' drivers from drops into the waterways or gorges and sandstone cliffs, was almost ten miles long. Presumably he always did his runs quite early in the morning to avoid any traffic, particularly on the McCarr's Creek Road section which was, by the early sixties, nicely hotmixed.
I'd imagine driving the Ferrari on that road would be just about as good as taking it onto the Targa Florio circuit.
The book also mentions his 'then-wife Robyn'. The late sixties were something of a turmoil for David in that respect too. Robyn didn't share his passion for going to Monaco every May, something that helped bring about his third marriage a few years later.
With regard to the lack of a green stripe across the nose at Longford in 1966 (as correctly identified by James), I can only conclude that repairs had been made. Remember, this is three months after the car's appearance at Catalina and Lakeside with the nose covered after Lowood. I'd suggest that the stone chips of Lowood were repaired at some point here and then the stripe wasn't reapplied for a while because of time constraints.
Photos from
Roaring Season might confirm this.