It was a sad day for many high end specialized exotic sports car auto fans and driving enthusiasts when Mr. Ferrari and none lower decided it was the end of the road for the front engine supercar two-seater Ferrari automobiles. It was an evolution perhaps that they were replaced by the more modern up to date mid-engine products.

Yet still many lament this loss to the road, racing tracks and collections of vintage auto collectors. However due to very similar naming and close nomenclature confusion and misconceptions abound even in the minds of most authoritative “sports car guys”. Here is a run down and description of these various final front engine Ferrari automobile line and its designated models and examples.

To replace the long running 250GT production cars with their conventional mechanical layout and obligatory V12 engines Ferrari launched the 275GTB in 1964. This was later improved to become the famed 275GTB4 in 1966. Although it remained true to the traditions, with front mounted V12 engine and two-door two-seater coupe body, it had a multi-tubular chassis frame, all independent coil-spring-suspension and the five speed gearbox in unit with chassis-mounted differential.

Thee was little doubt that the four-cam 275GTB4 (with the final stretch of the original “Colombo type engine”, was one of the fastest cars in the world. However as egos and corporate images go rather remarkably Ferrari and especially management and engineers were still not fully satisfied.

In the autumn of 1968, his engineers had produced the next step – the 365GTB4 “Daytona” car , which did everything that the now obsolete basic 275GTB4 could have done , but also had the massively powerful four-cam 4.4 liter engine and dramatically styled body ( by Pininfarina) constructed as usual by Scaglieti. The 275GTB4 basic chassis and mechanical layout were retained, were wider and the shovel noised shape, with its hidden headlamps, were more shapely than ever before. With all that power, the Daytona was more than remarkably fast. Its maximum speed was between 175 and 180 miles per hour – more than fast enough to outpace any traffic police on the road and any radar speed traps. True to form and tradition, it could break almost any speed limit in the word its 86 miles per hour second gear, and then go on to fully beat 140 miles per hour in fourth. Without any doubt it was the worlds’ fastest production car, faster even than the Lamborghini Miura, in the six years that it was on sale. Yet the whole business of going fast was carried out in exemplary Ferrari manner, with refinement to suit the high price tags, along with the most amazingly flexible and versatile engines and power plants as one no doubt had come to expect from the Maranello built products.

The only way for the car to be significantly improved would have been to make it faster or even more docile m but Ferrari was not interested in half measures. Half measures were to no avail was the rationale – it was to the maximum limits and nothing else were mottos that were lived up to and adhered as a maxim of product. None less than Mr. Ferrari himself had decided that the Daytona should be the very last of his front engine super car two-seaters. Thus from 1974 the product was replaced and some in the high end imported sports car field say displaced permanently by the wickedly attractive mid-engine Berlinetta Boxer, with its new flat-12 power unit, also displacing 4.4 liters.

Yet to drive a Ferrari Daytona was truly more than a memorable and a most exciting experience. No doubt about that.

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