History of chassis 1030
Chassis 1030 was sold to Ecurie Francorchamps, the racing division of Belgian Ferrari importer, Garage Francorchamps, run by Jacques Swaters. Like the majority of the Francorchamps team cars, chassis 1030 was painted the Belgian national racing colour and made his competition debut at the Spa 1000km World Sportscar Championship race 1970 (see photo below). Drivers were Hughes de Fierlant and Derek Bell. For the 24 hours of LeMans, the car was fitted with a long-tail and ended the race in fifth position.
After the 9h of Kyalami in 1970, De Fierlant raced the car in the 1000 km Buenos Aires and in Daytona with Gustave Gosselin.
For the Le Mans race in 1971, the car got the 512M specifications. The race ended in a DNF. For the race, De Fierlant was teamed with co-driver Alain De Cadanet. The latter bought the car after the race.
At the end of the season chassis 1030 was sold to Antony Bamford, JCB excavations. Bamford had Peter Brown race the car in the 1972 Special GT Championship where he won all six races contested. Willie Green was given a one-off outing at the Silverstone Interserie race and claimed second.
After 1978, the car was sold to Ferrrai collector Philip Walters Dowell from Worcestershire, UK. It was then acquired by Finn (UK) and Nigel Chiltern-Hunt (UK).
In 1983 it was owned by Carlo Bonomi, who showed it at a Ferrari Concours in 1992. There it was bought by R.Beckwith Smith (UK), who drove the car in the 1993 Tour de France Auto (License plate: TRE-464L).
In 1994 it was offered for sale by Michael Sheehan’s EAS for $995,000; it was sold to Terry Jones from Las Vegas, who showed chassis 1030 at the Monterey Historic races 1994 and 1995. The car was then bought by Yoshiho Matsuda for his Ferrari Museum of Art.
In 1999 iw was auctioned at La Jolla for 1,95 million dollar.
The car came to France thanks to Jean Guikas. In 1991, Xavier Beaumartin became the owner. It was Jean Guikas, who brought the car to the Maserati-Ferrari challenge at Mugello in 2008. In 2015, the car was seen at Goodwood and was entered by Blackbird Automotive from Hong Kong.
By 2011 two 512 replicas had been built at Roelofs Engineering, chassis by Nijland Las.
One has no further info. The second one was coachbuilt at Hietbrink in Haaksbergen (NL).
Same livery used as on 1030 and driven at Silverstone Classic 2014. Painted red in 2015 and offered in the UK. Acquired by Carlos Monteverde, who had it repainted yellow and re-livered like his 1002.This now-1002 replica is being driven by Monteverde in historic events in lieu of his real 1002.
