Ferrari 250 LM, Ron Fry

Most 250 LMs went straight to racing teams, but chassis 6105 began on a show stand. Ferrari's mid-engined berlinetta had been refused GT homologation in 1964 and raced as a prototype, yet this car was displayed at the Earls Court Motor Show in London that September and sold within days to Ron Fry, a gentleman driver from Bristol, who registered it RON 54. Fry, who had already raced a 250 GTO the same way, used it through 1964 and 1965 in British hillclimbs and sprints at Longleat, Wiscombe Park, Dyrham Park and Castle Combe, before the car returned to Earls Court in 1966. Later owners kept it racing until 1970; it then spent years with collectors in Tokyo before coming back to Europe for the Le Mans Classic and the Goodwood Revival.

CMC models the car in its present-day condition, as recorded in 2023 and 2024: plain red with no race numbers, a mesh grille and the black-and-silver RON 54 plates front and rear. The rear body lifts in one piece over the V12, its suspension and the inboard rear brakes, the front lid opens to the spare wheel, and the doors have sliding windows. The right-hand-drive cockpit has blue textile seats, belts and a wood-rimmed wheel. CMC builds it at 1:18 as a hand-assembled metal precision model of more than 1,800 parts.