Motor Sport's May issue features Sir Stirling Moss's legendary Ferrari 250 SWB being thrashed around the legendary Goodwood circuit.
...Ordered for Stirling by Rob Walker, 2735GT was delivered to Le Mans with sliding Perspex windows, blue carpets, a light grey headlining and Rob's familiar blue with white stripe paintwork. The bill was 5.5m lira. Sharing with Graham Hill, they carved through the field and were in third place overall, a GT car ahead of several prototypes, when a fan blade detached itself, severing a radiator hose and blowing a head gasket. Half a century later Stirling was still livid. "It was Rob's car but it'd been prepped and entered by NART (Luigi Chinetti's North American Racing Team) and they'd left the bloody road car fan on the engine…" But the car itself he loved, his favourite of all the GT cars he drove...
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