Inside Ferrari’s ULTIMATE Restoration Workshop
In a quiet corner of the Ferrari factory in Maranello, Italy, a small, dedicated team document the past and offers classics a future. This is Ferrari’s Classiche department – and it’s where the world’s most expensive cars come when they need a spruce up. But it’s only a relatively recent development, as under founder Enzo, Ferrari was a race team first, always focused on what’s next, not what’s past. It was only in 2004 that CEO Jean Todt spotted the value in the back catalogue and realised that if others were restoring and rebuilding Ferraris, the firm itself should have a stake in that. The Classiche (that second one is a hard C) unit got going two years later. Two decades on, we’ve been for a poke around, to see just how diverse and adept Classiche has become. Top Gear Magazine’s Head of Car Testing, Ollie Marriage, is your guide… Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGear WATCH MORE TOP GEAR: First Looks: https://bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: https://bit.ly/TGFirstDrives American Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: https://bit.ly/TGAmericanTuned LISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: https://topgear.podlink.to/Podcast Sign up for our newsletter: https://www.topgear.com/newsletter-signup #topgear #ferrari Chapters: 00:00 Ferrari's Classiche 01:37 Ferrari F40 02:57 Restoration Projects 04:06 Ferrari 512 BB 05:25 Ferrari 212 07:28 Restored Engines 08:26 The Restoration Process 10:12 The Written Archives 14:36 Conclusion MORE ABOUT TOP GEAR: Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig. This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios. Service & Feedback https://www.bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us/
About Ferrari 512
Ferrari 512 S was a sports prototype car produced by Italian manufacturer Ferrari from late 1969 to 1970. As it name suggests, the car had a 5.0L V12 engine, and was homologated as a Group 4 Sportscar of which a total number of 25 units had to be made. Porsche had already done the same in April 1969 with the Porsche 917, while other Sportscars in the 5-litre class, Ferrari 250 LM, Ford GT40 Mk.I, Lola T70, had been built mainly in 1964, 1965 or 1967. Several 512S were entered in the 1970 Interna...
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