{"id":42319,"date":"2015-10-20T12:13:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T11:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/?p=42319"},"modified":"2022-06-14T11:07:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T10:07:10","slug":"ferrari-250lm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/cars\/ferrari-250lm\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari 250 LM"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u00a0have posted the Ferrari 250 LM before.\u00a0But please forgive us. <\/strong><\/p>\n

In terms of pure, untrammelled, mechanical beauty this Ferrari cannot be beaten.<\/p>\n

For us this car epitomises the essence of what a Ferrari is and always should be.<\/p>\n

The Ferrari 250 LM, having evolved from the ‘P’ series cars that shook down Ferrari’s endurance racing credentials, had huge racing chops.<\/p>\n

A works 250 LM won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1965 at the hands of future F1 star Jochen Rindt, but it also enjoyed wide and varied\u00a0success for privateer\u00a0teams.<\/p>\n

The handful of road going versions\u00a0that survive\u00a0go for teens of millions.<\/p>\n

And though it’s one of those cars that will sadly rarely be driven, its brutal beauty as an object is more than adequate aesthetic compensation.<\/p>\n

Just look at it. You can smell the steel and the alloy and the leather – notice\u00a0that heavy lifted back end, the cooling scoops in the car’s shoulders, the gape-mouthed grin.<\/p>\n

It all amounts to a Ferrari bred and bloodied on the race track and driven straight into your dreams.<\/p>\n

As every Ferrari should be.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t