Extremely Rare $15M Ferrari 512M Slapped With Parking Ticket In London Photo Shoot

Specialist London historic car dealers Fiskens was caught out by traffic wardens when they left the 1970 Ferrari 512M worth £10 million in a Kensington Mews. Employees of Fiskens had parked the Ferrari to take some promotional photographs.

The twelve cylinder, 5 litre racing car, which had recently been raced at Le Mans Classic, is being sold by Fiskens this month. According to BBC News, Kensington and Chelsea Council said that the photographer was asked to move the car and agreed, but "no attempt was made" within the "statutory five-minute observation period".

"A ticket was then issued as it would be in any case," according to the spokesperson. The car set a new world record in 1977 after achieving 192mph, driven by Robert Horne over a flying mile.

According to Fiskens the car has quite a pedigree;

The Ferrari factory sold this 12 cylinder, five litre sports racing machine to the Escuderia Montjuich in April 1970. The Escuderia was founded by four wealthy Catalan gentleman drivers in the mid 1960s; Enrique Coma-Cros (co-author of the book Ricart - Pegaso / La Pasión del Automóvil), Félix Muñoz (known as Pelé), José Juncadella and Juan Fernández. The latter two of these were both well-known racing drivers of the period and are frequently mentioned in contemporary race reports and magazines. Chassis 1002 is, quite simply, a superb example of one of Maranello’s finest sports competition cars. Absolutely steeped in history and provenance, it presents an extremely rare opportunity to acquire a ‘best in class’ 512 with the very finest of racing and ownership pedigrees. The Ferrari has an exquisite period history, with imagery depicting it competing in the 1970 edition of 24 Heures du Mans, as car number 35 in the test and number 9 in the subsequent race, where it was piloted by José Juncadella and J. Fernandez. Unfortunately, 1002 left the race in the eleventh hour after having been holding a credible tenth place in the preceding hour due to an on-track collision.

In that year, 1002 went on to compete at many more high-profile events, including the Jarama Twelve Hours and the 1000 Kilometres de Paris, held at the legendary Montlhéry Circuit. The Matra-Simca of Jack Brabham and François Cevert won the race but Juncadella and Jabouille brought 1002 home to a very respectable second place overall and took first in class.

This Ferrari was also used in an attempt in 1977 to set the British Land Speed Record and achieved a recorded speed of 192mph over a flying mile distance to set the record. #Ferrari512m #Fiskens #FerrariParkingTicket

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