Date |
Result |
Event |
Driver |
# |
Reference |
51 - Delivered to Comptoir Automobiles Richard SA,
Brussel, Belgium |
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52/Jan - Displayed at Salon Bruxelles standing with 340 America
Ghia Coupé 0148/A and next to 212 Inter Vignale
Cabriolet 0125/EL The 212 inter Coupé Vignale 0139/E
is two-tone colored
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53/Spring - Sold by Comptoir Automobiles Richard SA
to Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, as a used
car, with only 3500 km on the odo
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53 - Prince Bernhard of
Netherlands |
"HX-13" (NL) |
53/June/7 - The Prince is pictured with his Ferrari at Circuit Zandvoort
on Sunday 7 June 1953, when he visited the F1 Grand Prix
Car was on Dutch Royalty plates HX-13
The black & white pictures clearly show now a darker
colored car, but it is not sure what the exact color
was.
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|
53/Summer - Not long after he had this car, Enzo Ferrari
heard about the Dutch Prince driving in only a
"used” Ferrari
So he wrote a letter to
Bernhard: That is not a good car, come to Maranello with
your Ferrari, and I will offer you a new Ferrari
|
|
53/July - Prince Bernhard drove to Maranello with a
friend in his Ferrari 212 Inter Vignale 0139/E to
Maranello, and traded that car for a new Ferrari 212
Inter Coupé Pinin Farina s/n 0269/EU
That car was restamped to 0139/E, so Bernhard drove back
to the Netherlands with his new 212 Inter Pinin Farina
0269EU restamped
0139/E.
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|
53/July - When the old 212 Inter Vignale 0139/E was
traded in, it had driven 9500 km. The chassis and engine
of the 212 Inter Vignale 0139/E were restamped with
numbers 0269/EU, and sold |
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55/March/12 - In the mean time, Prince Bernhard
traded his 212 Inter Pinin Farina 0269/EU, that was
restamped and used the identity 0139/E, in for his new
Ferrari 250 Europa GT
0387GT.
The Europa was also stamped 0139/E, so that identity
was now used by Bernhard for the third time. The car
still has that 0139/E number today.
The old 212 Inter Pinin Farina
0269/EU, that was restamped 0139/E before, was now
restamped 0387/GT and sold |
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5. -
.............., USA |
"E14068" |
63 - The original 212 Vignale was later owned by someone
in New York. The car was fitted with a Chevy V8 engine,
automatic transmission & rear axle.
|
|
The original engine 0139/E, that was also restamped to
0269/EU, is now in Ferrari 212 Inter 0237/EU. Pictures
of that car and engine taken by Andreas Birner in
Gstaad.
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81 - car damaged
during transport; "the car was packed in a crate
without being tied down so that the car had rolled
back and forth across the Atlantic" |
FbV
p154 |
82 - G. Sterner, UK (Wales) |
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84 - Les Miller, Hornsby,
AUS |
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8. - bodywork rebuilt & fitted with engine from
0259EU (212
Inter) |
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