still water can run deep....
IMHO this is a most impressive and outstanding 1965 GT-350. I wish the seller good luck.
This example, which has been raced and aptly represented the race-car bonafides of the 65s for many many years brings to light a lot of things which need to be refreshed - lest they be forgotten:
https://www.ferraris-online.com/pages/cardetail.php?reqcardir=SH-350GT-5S075;-I agree 100% w the posting of “SFM5S000”. This car could easily and cheaply be reconfigured to street trim. In concurrence, it would not necessarily be ‘concours 1965’. But a concours 1965 GT 350 is a car w significant shortcomings and easily embarrassed by its’ peers. This has all but been forgotten as 65 GT-350s have largely disappeared from common ownership and street/track usage;
-we have all been meaconed by the very real, although dissociated, auction/private-sale collectors laying down 500 (large) for a ‘65 to round out their collections. But what are they buying? Dare I say that many of these auction queens are masterfully restored old floozies reborn as new found virgins... (not necessarily a bad thing);
- I herein posit that the halcyon days for the 1965 GT-350s were in 1968-1980~ range when 65s, in various states of sensible modification, took the attack as club racers, autocrossers (remember?), open trackers, SCCA B prod, doorbangers, run-whatcha-brung, etc.
Although, yes, the R ran at Green Valley etc and, yes, Jerry Titus, Donahue etc al were truly outstanding, the vaunted reputation of the 1965 GT-350 as a serious performance car was demonstrated in ‘club racing’ 1968-1980. These were great days for the 65 GT-350s, probably the most aggressive widespread usage, most wrenched by their (then) enthusiast owner-drivers. Secret: (lightweight) shhhh
A (then) ‘set up’ 65 GT-350 could indeed stick it to a ‘68 302 Camaro or B302, but it wasn’t easy. THAT is what this instant sale represents (warts and all). It is this where the 1965 GT-350 proved its’ worth;
-most of the guys who aggressively raced and established the enduring reputation of the 65 GT-350s have passed and the naive ‘market’ now wants a ‘hanger car’ as a collection trophy. But hey? that’s where we’re at I guess....can’t argue w the money!
- BTW, these were all modded ‘S’ model 65s, as above, (by the mid 70s most R models were junk heaps subject to re-body). ‘427’ is also correct about these period ‘racer’ cars not at the level of today’s Cobra Automotive prepped cars- which are masterful. But the CA level cars are creations of the twenty-first century! There was NEVER anything of the sort when 65s established their enduring reputation.
Dare I say:
Why would anyone want a 3939S fuel pump? functionally worthless
or a stock fan? laughable
or a G2 radiator? first to be vaulted into the dumpster....
289 heads? run for your life
external balance? give up now
These things are all sacrosanct in our ‘collector-pseudo concours world’ now, and the mere mention is unspeakable, with the inference that this degrades the car. wow.
It is in these areas that a car such as 5S075, can so accurately portray a 1965 GT-350, and the real history of the 1965 GT-350s at their best, but I agree that is not the ‘market’ today. By gosh there may even be a chance that a car such as this may not have the ‘correct’ date coded wind-wing!
Back to lurking.
Steve
SFM5S339