Is this the 6th Grand Sport? Yes, 6th.

[67HEAVEN]

http://www.autoweek.com/cat_content...specials&loc_code=index&content_code=06882568

The following information and photos were sent to me by Garrett Waddell (63Corvette on CF):
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"I knew John Mecom in the 60s, and concur with his statement that there were "6 Grand Sports". In agreement with John's statement that "Bill Mitchel used the 6th Grand Sport chassis for a 'Special'", I hereby offer a 'proof' photograph of that special."

Garrett Waddell (63Corvette on CF)

Here's Garrett with the car in question in the 1960s.

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[JohnZ]

That's not a "Bill Mitchell Special" - it's one of the very early Scaglietti-bodied pontoon-fendered Ferrari TR250's (Testarossa); I have other photos of that car and its chassis number around somewhere. I knew Bill, and he wouldn't drive anything that hadn't been "massaged" by his Styling crew with his "personal touches" - he had a MAJOR ego.

I've talked to almost everyone who was directly involved with the Grand Sports while doing research for two years before I built mine, including John Mecom, and he's the ONLY one who "thinks" he bought six cars when Zora cut them loose. I talked to Mecom many times in 1995, and he never mentioned anything about a "sixth" car. Age does strange things to memory

 

[1KULC7]

I read in several different references the sixth car was being built when GM stopped its racing program, Zora pushed this and Mitchell was suppose to destroy the sixth car that was on the bench. To this day, nobody can confirm the sixth Grand Sport was destroyed, people think one of the engineers on the project took the pieces home. I would love to know if people read the same thing that I did.

 

[67HEAVEN]

John,

I see now that I neglected to add the smiley after Garrett's message. He did in his eMail to me......but I didn't in the post above until just now.

 

[Tom Bryant]

Love those 250 Testarossas. The six Webers on that little 173 cubic inch V12 are amazing. One of these was my second die cast I purchased way back about 20 years ago. The first was a 250 GTO.


Tom