Rod Carveth -- Ferrari 250TR

Rod Carveth in his glorious Ferrari Testa Rossa #0666.  He drove the car for the last time here.   This was the prototype of the pontoon-fendered 1958 Testa Rossas.  

The car ran in the 1958 LeMans 24 hour race where it was entered by Luigi Chinetti and driven by the all-California team of Dan Gurney and Bruce Kessler.  It DNF'd due to an accident.

On July 15, 1961 Carveth and co-driver Chuck Parsons won the 3-hour enduro at the Cotati airport course.

On Augusat 20, 1961 Lew Florence drove the Ferrari to a 6th place finish at Vaca Valley Raceway.

Carveth moved on to a Buick V8 powered Lotus Mk.19 later in 1962.

Jon Shirley raced the Ferrari in historic events until he sold the car in August 2011 for a record $16.4M.

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