" Item No. 23798 The
third very interesting color variant of the Ferrari 512S Berlinetta.
It depicts the car of the Gelo Racing Team that was scheduled to compete in the “1,000 Kilometers of Brands Hatch” in 1970—or at least was supposed to. The drivers were team owner Georg Loos (Germany) and Jonathan Williams from Great Britain. Due to a lack of available tires at the start, the car remained in the pits and did not participate in the race.
Porsche 917Ks finished in the top three positions—yet another race in which this car dominated the 5-liter class of that era. The first Ferrari 512S finished in 8th place. The 1:24 scale model from [brand]
The distinct color variations of the 512S Berlinetta with this body style are thus pretty much exhausted—aside from varying start numbers. I was only able to find one car from Scuderia Filipinetti with slightly different livery—but all of them feature a predominantly red base color.
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