Ferrari 250 GT Tour de France

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250 SWB Ferrari

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Written by Michael Fordham

We think the 250 SWB Ferrari has by far the most appealing rear end in the panoply of car design.

The SWB is a byword for the sort of purposeful attitude that epitomised the first two decades of the Maranello dream – and it was functional too.

The way that rear end must have whipped around the twisted of, say, the Targa Florio is a matter of pure geometry.

But we don’t want to get hung up on the maths of it all.

Just LOOK at it!

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1965 Ferrari 275 GTB/6C Alloy Berlinetta

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