This one makes you dizzy. My inquiry started when I saw a picture of the Ferrari P5 show car (red, midengined, gullwing) from Pininfarina and asked on a Ferrari forum the SN. In the original publicity, Pininfarina said it was a P4 chassis. But later I found out that it was a 206SP chassis.
However, it must have been fitted with a Ferrari V12 for its short show career. Pininfarina mis-represented the chassis for some reason.
Then someone on the Ferrari forum said, after it was a Ferrari prototype, it was restyled, painted yellow and, stiil with gullwing doors, called the Alfa Romeo P33/2 concept car. Does anyone remember if that car had a Alfa engine in this incarnation. or if it was a running driving car?
Confusing things further, I opened an old issue of CAVALLINO and it has an ad for a Ferrari for an upcoming auction only it says the car is the 212E Montagna, a flat twelve powered mid-engine race car campaigned by the factory for one year, where it won 9 out of 9 races entered. It was mostly built to test the suitability of a flat twelve as a road car engine (after they had used it in F1).They say it was the Ferrari P5 show car for awhile but don't mention the Alfa configuration. Oddly the ad pictured a curvy car where the one they sold had a body consisting of a lot of flat planes. I heard it was retrofitted with an earlier body but don't know if it was with the semi-curved hillclimb body or the original 206SP style body.
Anyhow here's it's racing record as the 212E Montagna.
0862 67
212 E Montagna
Date Result Event Driver # Reference
67 - re-numbered from 020 (Dino 206 S chassis)
67/nov - tested at Modena by Chris Amon
68 - chassis used for PF 250 P5 show car
68/mar/13 - Geneva Salon show car
69 - rebodied & modified to 212 E Montagna specs
69 - Scuderia Ferrari C2 p28 Tanner p545 TCF p317
69/mar/30 1st Ampus hillclimb (F) Peter Schetty #131 FCR V2 p212 #1 #88 #118
69/may/11 1st Volterra hillclimb Peter Schetty #532
69/may/25 1st Montseny hillclimb (E) Peter Schetty #104
69/jun/08 1st OA Alpen-Bergpreis Rossfeld Peter Schetty #1 AMS 1969 H.13 p90
69/jun/22 1st Mont Ventoux hillclimb Peter Schetty #55 C97 p15
69/jul/13 1st OA Trento-Bondone hillclimb Peter Schetty #88
69/jul/27 1st OA Freiburg-Schauinsland hillclimb Peter Schetty #197 AMS 1969 H.17 p68
69/aug/03 1st Cesana-Sestriere hillclimb Peter Schetty #380 C185 p10
69/aug/31 1st Ollon-Villars hillclimb Peter Schetty #181 C92 p41 C6/88 p35
My question is: does anyone know if Pierre Bardinot, the French Ferrari collector, ws the first civillian to buy it from Ferrari and what he reportedly paid for it? And what body is on the car now? And if that one chassis could have possibly been under those three bodies (four bodies if it first wore a 206SP body)?
