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There’s a Ferrari 412 Pick-Up/Ute For Sale – $20,000 to $27,000 USD

This is a Ferrari 412 pick-up (or a ute as they would say in Australia), it was heavily modified by Elo and Will of the London Motor Group into its current form and impressively it’s entirely affordable, with a price estimate of £15,000 to £20,000 ($20,250 to $27,000 USD).

Of course it’s always worth remembering the old adage about there being nothing more expensive than a cheap Ferrari – because of the blinding maintenance and servicing costs. However Elo and Will has largely solved this problem for the next owner by removing the Ferrari V12 and installing a 5.7 litre Chevy V8.

Now usually if you remove a V12 from a Ferrari and install and American V8 you can expect two find yourself hung, drawn, and quartered by members of the local Ferrari club. In this instance you might just escape that fate as the Ferrari 412 is typically considered one of the least-liked Ferraris of its time.

The Ferrari 412

Ferrari built the 412 from 1985 till 1989, it was the fourth and final model in its line which had started with the 365 GT4 2+2 all the way back in 1972.

Above Image: The lines of the car have been preserved remarkably well given the unusual nature of the conversion.

The car was styled by Leonardo Fioravanti at Pininfarina and although it was always controversial it must be said the it did age well in the view of many – it didn’t look a whisker out of place in 1989 a full 17 years after it had first been unveiled.

The Ferrari 412 was fitted with a 4.9 litre version of the legendary Colombo V12, with double overhead cams per bank and four valves per cylinder, it was good for 335 bhp at 6,000 rpm.

Just 576 examples of the 412 were made and surviving examples haven’t come close to approaching the value of its predecessor the Ferrari 365 GT 2+2. Although it’ll never be universally loved the 412 and its siblings have been slowly gaining in popularity in recent years.

Building The Ferrari 412 Pick-Up

You may recognize the car if you’re a regular watcher of the History Channel series “Ultimate Wheels” as the Ferrari 412 pick-up was the star of one of the show’s episodes.

Above Image: The load-bay is four and a half feet long with teak panelling.

The build started when Will bought a standard 1985 Ferrari 412 for £5,000, or about $6,700 USD. That’s obviously not a lot of money even for a 412 however the engine gremlins you may expect were all largely a moot point as the Colombo V12 was coming out early in the build and never going back in.

The decision to use the 5.7 litre Chevrolet V8 wasn’t a difficult one, it would be an order of magnitude cheaper to maintain and if future owners so wished it would be easy to add performance upgrades to match or surpass the Ferrari engine’s power output.

In order to convert the 412 to a pick-up Will and Elo cut 300mm out of the roof and modified the B-pillars to match. This left room for a four and a half foot load bed in the rear – in place of the original back seats and trunk.

The hood has been modified with a double-barreled intake for the V8, which is sure to rustle some jimmies in the Ferrari purist community.

Above Image: Although it’ll doubtless upset Ferrari purists, the car looks like quite a fun daily driver.

Teak wood panelling was used in the load bed, inspiration had been taken from luxury yachts and teak has natural anti-rot tendencies which make it ideal. In order to keep the distinctive rear of the car in place they decided to forego a fold down tailgate, though due to the fact that the car is reasonably low it’s not particularly difficult to lift items over the side.

Inside the car you’ll find two bucket seats, the interior is mostly standard apart from the steering wheel and stereo, even the original transmission location has been kept.

After it was built the Ferrari pick-up spent most of its time in the London Motor Museum. It now needs a recommissioning before any driving is attempted, and the price estimate is a reasonably affordable £15,000 to £20,000 ($20,250 to $27,000 USD) as mentioned above.

If you’d like to see more or register to bid you can click here to visit the listing on Bonhams, it’s due to roll across the auction block on the 20th of March in England.

Images courtesy of Bonhams

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For Sale: An Original Land Rover Defender SVX From “Spectre”

This is one of the Land Rover Defender SVX “Spectre” vehicles used while filming the 2015 James Bond film “Spectre”. Just 10 were built by Bowler for the Jaguar Land Rover Special Vehicle Operations division, and like all James Bond vehicles they’re highly prized by collectors.

The original Land Rover Defender 110 was deemed too familiar-looking to truly be a vehicle used by evil supervillains so Land Rover racing specialists Bowler had the job of both making them look menacing while significantly increasing performance.

Land Rover Defender SVX “Spectre” – Specifications

Far from being merely dolled up for the cameras, the 10 Land Rover Defender SVX Spectre vehicles were built to Bowler’s racing specification.

The modifications included hefty 37 inch tires on bead locker wheels, lifted suspension including Bilstein rally dampers and rose joints. The wheel arches have also been cut away and large fender flares have been added to accommodate the much larger rubber.

A full internal and external roll cage was fitted, a roof rack and Light Force spotlights were added, as well as a front nudge bar, Recaro seats with 4-point harnesses, a Warn winch, a snorkel, rocker guards, a front bash plate, and a hydraulic handbrake.

The engine bay also received significant attention, power from the original 120 bhp turbo diesel has been increased to 185 bhp, and it’s now turning out a prodigious 368 lb/ft of torque.

Just four years after the 10 Land Rover Defender SVX Spectre vehicles were built, Bowler Manufacturing was wholly acquired by Jaguar Land Rover, it now operates as the company’s in-house Skunk Works division working on custom performance parts.

More recently Bowler released the Project CSP 575, essentially a factory-backed release of the Land Rover Defender 110 station wagon, now powered by the 5.0 litre Jaguar AJ-V8 and featuring significant performance improvements throughout.

Each of the 10 Spectre Defenders had varied roles during filming and we’ve covered two of the others previously here and here. All of them were visually identical and can typically only be told apart by their license plates, however some of the cars do have telltale damage from filming.

After released in 2015 Spectre would go on to make over $880 million USD at the global box-office, making it the second highest grossing Bond film of all time behind Skyfall.

The two most memorable vehicular stars of the film are the Aston Martin DB10 and the Land Rover Defender SVX Spectre, and as you may expect both of them sell for significant money.

The Land Rover Defender SVX “Spectre” Shown Here

The small number of Spectre Defenders that have come up for sale have sold for vastly different sums, on the high end one sold for £365,500 in 2018 and on the low end a damaged example sold for €115,000.

The example you see here is chassis number SALLDHFS7AA791698 and it’s being offered without reserve by RM Sotheby’s at their Paris auction due to be held on the 13th of February.

The hammer estimate is not currently listed, and as is often the case it’ll likely depend on who is in the room (and on the phones) on the day.

If you’d like to see more or register to bid you can click here to visit the listing.

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Carroll Shelby’s Dodge Omni GLHS Is For Sale

The Dodge Omni GLHS you see here was personally owned by Carroll Shelby, it’s now titled in the Carroll Hall Shelby Trust name, and it’s due to roll across the auction block in just a few days time.

For the uninitiated, the Dodge Omni GLHS (also known as the Shelby GLHS) was a version of the Dodge Omni built by Carroll Shelby’s team at his factory in Whittier, California.

Despite appearances, the Omni GLHS was said to be quicker than the legendary Shelby GT350 in the 0 to 60 mph dash taking just 6.5 seconds vs the 6.8 seconds required by the GT350.

The “GLHS” in the model name of this car is said to stand for “Goes Like Hell S’more”, it’s a reference to the earlier GLH model which was said to stand for “Goes Like Hell”.

Carroll Shelby had been brought in to work on the Dodge Omni by none other than Lee Iacocca – a man responsible for many of Ford’s hits of the 1960s who was now the CEO of Chrysler.

Iacocca’s time at Ford had seen him working with Shelby a number of times, the blue oval had sponsored much of Shelby’s work and provided the engine for his first smash hit – the Shelby Cobra 289.

Iacocca was well aware of Shelby’s ability to add a little flair to cars, and if there was ever a car in need of some spicing up it was the popular though somewhat boring Dodge Omni.

The Dodge Omni GLHS (And The GLH)

Carroll Shelby had moved with the times and by the 1980s he was more likely to go down the route of forced induction than to try to squeeze a V8 into everything – as had been his modus operandi in the 1960s.

When he was called in to modify the 1984 Dodge Omni he took a long hard look at the four-cylinder, single overhead cam, front wheel drive car and realized the best way to get it moving was to add a turbocharger, some suspension upgrades, and some other modifications that had been made to the earlier Shelby Charger.

Power was increased to 146 hp courtesy of the 7.6 PSI of boost, but thanks to the vehicle’s low curb weight of 2,200 lbs (~1,000 kgs) it proved to be a lively performer.

Two years later the 1986 Dodge Omni GLHS appeared, just 500 of these would be made, and each would be built by hand by Shelby’s men in California. The differences between the GLHS and the earlier GLH are significant, more so than the 20% power increase might lead you to believe.

Shelby and his team modified the 2.2 litre four-cylinder engine by adding the two-piece, blow-through turbo intake that was used on the Turbo II. The car used a newly developed ECU, an air-to-air intercooler, and boost was increased from 7.6 to 12 PSI courtesy of a Garrett AiResearch T03 turbocharger.

Power climbed from 146 hp to 175 hp, with 175 lb ft of torque. The suspension was modified significantly with the addition of Koni adjustable struts and shock absorbers and stiffer springs. The car now rode on 05/50R15 Eagle GT Gatorback tires fitted to Shelby Centurian alloy wheels, and a Shelby decal pack made sure people knew you weren’t driving a standard Omni.

Just 500 examples of the Shelby GLHS were ever built and despite their rarity they’ve never attracted anywhere near the same interest as many of the earlier cars to wear the Shelby name.

Interest does seem to be slowly increasing however, and events like Radwood have seen many unusual ’80s-era vehicles like this plucked from obscurity to enjoy some more time in the limelight.

The Dodge Omni GLHS Shown Here

As mentioned above the car you see here belonged to Carroll Shelby himself, so it’ll likely attract more collector attention as a result, it also has just 8,176 miles on the odometer.

This car is number 086 of 500 GLHS models produced, and it has previously received the Award of Merit at the Milwaukee Concours d’Elegance. It also appeared in the Shelby Dodge Club calendar, and it’s still wearing its original paint, logo stickers, and interior, and it comes with an extensive GLHS reference file.

If you’d like to read more about it or register to bid you can click here to visit the listing on Mecum.

Images courtesy of Mecum

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The Runge RS010 – Built By Hand In A Secret Minnesota Barn By Christopher Rünge

The Runge RS010 was hand-built by Christopher Rünge as a bespoke one-off sports car with styling reminiscent of late 1950s racers. Rünge is a traditional coachbuilder who only ever creates his own vehicle designs – he never replicates or recreates, everything has to be unique.

Each Rünge vehicle is built in a secretive barn tucked away on a property in the Minnesota countryside, he works alone bar the occasional help from his teenage son, his work has been celebrated by countless luminaries of the classic car world and displayed on the lawn at The Quail – A Motorsports Gathering.

Christopher Rünge built the Runge RS010 over two years between 2017 and 2019, it took him approximately 2,000 hours to complete and it quickly became one of his most celebrated designs. As with all of his creations the RS010 has a hand-formed aluminum alloy body that was shaped panel by panel using traditional equipment like English wheels, wooden mallets, and a wooden body buck.

“The RS010 was commissioned by a Chicago collector. Our goal was to create what we thought was the ultimate late 50’s German sports coupe with aircraft influence. This theme shows through both aesthetically and in functionality utilizing aircraft duct, venting systems, switchgear, magneto starter and more.” – Christopher Rünge

Above Video: Christopher Rünge meets with Jay Leno to talk about some of his creations.

The RS010 has a full steel tube frame offering excellent rigidity, this is then clothed in clothed with a “Superleicht” (super light) aluminum tube form that supports the aluminum body – a similar (but different) technique to that used by Carrozzeria Touring for their Superleggera bodies used on vehicles like the Aston Martin DB5.

As you may expect, the Runge RS010 tips the scales at just 1,350 lbs or 612 kgs. To put that into perspective the latest Porsche 911 Carrera S weighs 3,428 lbs or 1,555 kgs.

“The build started with a steel ladder frame chassis. We utilized modified Porsche 356B drum brakes which are vented in period fashion, mated to a height adjustable “King/Link” front beam and swing axle rear suspension. Koni supplied custom valved shock absorbers to create a wonderfully balanced, smooth ride.”

“Gearing comes from a 4 speed “Longbox” allowing quick rips in low range with a comfortable 4th gear cruising at 80mph and a top speed upwards of 125mph. Power comes from a mid-engine 200 hp, 2.3L flat four pushrod motor built entirely from new components. The motor features a RUNGE aluminum fan shroud and custom sandcast valve covers. Tecnomagnesio 15″ wheels are wrapped in Pirelli CN36 tires setting off the stance with a period look.” – Christopher Rünge

Power is provided by a hand-built Runge 2.3 litre flat-four engine with two twin-choke Weber carburetors producing 200 hp. It’s mounted in a rear-mid location and it sends power back through a four-speed “Longbox” transmission to the rear wheels. Cruising speed in fourth gear is said to be comfortable at 80+ mph.

The tubular steel chassis is fitted with independent front and rear suspension that includes Koni adjustable shock absorbers, and the vehicle has hydraulic drum brakes on all four corners.

Unusually for a lightweight sports racing car Rünge wanted to ensure that the RS010 was comfortable to drive, even on a daily basis if the owner wanted, so he fitted with the car with insulation and sound deadening, as well as a 12 volt electric air conditioning system, carpeting, leather-trimmed alloy seats, and doors that open to reveal cut away sections of the roof to allow easier entry and exit.

The inside of the Runge RS010 us just as beautiful as the exterior, the signature Runge steering wheel sits in front of traditional instrumentation. A clock from a Soviet MiG jet is fitted to the centre of the dashboard and all the controls and toggle switches are taken from 1950s-era aircraft.

Above Image: Christopher Rünge welding one of his signature Superleicht bodies.

“The one-off body started by hand-forming an aluminum “Tube Buck”. RUNGE refers to this as their “Superleicht” structure that acts as a guide for the aluminum bodywork. The entire body is handformed .063″ 3003 aluminum. Flat sheets are cut into patterns and then hammered over tree stumps and rolled into shape with an FJ Edwards English wheel. Each pattern takes shape to the buck through a series of trial fits and once the fit is acceptable, it is butt welded to the next section ultimately creating a seamless body clip.”

“The engine bay decklids each have a modified Porsche 911 grill running longitudinally giving more than adequate air supply to the power plant while executing a beautiful design element. Headlights are the super rare Lucas “Le Mans” with period Miller driving lights mounted in the nose. Traditional Porsche 356 “Beehive” tail lights add a period touch to the rear of the car.” – Christopher Rünge

The Runge RS010 is now due to cross the auction block with Bonhams on the 21st of January with a hammer price estimate of $225,000 to $250,000 USD. Christopher tells us that there’s currently a two year wait for new commissions and prices start at $395,000 USD for a car like the RS010, so this is an excellent opportunity for someone to jump the queue and get their hands on an original low-mileage Runge.

If you’d like to read more about it or register to bid you can click here to visit the listing.

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