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Drogo's California.
This car seems to be a normal Ferrari California spyder.
But - the body seems to be slimmer and that is the visual clue, that
perhaps it really isn't such a spyder.
In fact, it is really one of approximately thirty 212 Inter.
The car started out late in 1951 as the bare chassis s/n 0147 E
and got an elegant Vignale coupe body. The owner Siro Sbraci
raced with it in the 1952 Mille Miglia and 1953 Toscany Cup,
the next owner in the 1954 MM. The car went through a series of italian owners
until 1965, when it was rebodied by Piero Drogo as a California spyder
for the famous italian driver and journalist, Count Johnny Lurani.
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Sergio Scaglietti's firm has always been credited with this new body
and you can read it in all the books.
But the bodywork of this beautiful "California" was definitely made by Piero Drogo.
The Ferrari historian Marcel Massini found documents and photos of this car, just
leaving Drogo's coachbuilding shop in 1965.
The overall rebody is appropriate, it is in scale and it is delightfully shaped.
Also the interior has been redone and exhibits traces of the fifties.
It is a unique "speciale" from an era when such specials were normally.
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