With a very elegant Brown over Tan and Black interiour, this Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona is an attraction to the eye and a must-have for your collection.

Delivered new to the United States she was imported to Europe in 1992 and has just run 44.000 miles.

This masterpiece of machinery can be yours for 265.000 euro including all EU taxes and commissions. She comes with a European registration.

One of the most famous 365 GTB/4 owners is Clay Regazzoni, the former Scuderia Ferrari racing driver. He has never lost his admiration for the car - in fact he still has one - and became an owner in 1974, the year in which he won the German Grand Prix on the demanding Nürburgring.

Many other well-known personalities in the worlds of sport, theatre and business followed his example, confirming the Daytona - in the context of it's times and of typical Ferrari production figures - as a genuine best seller.

The Daytona owed its success to a strong hand of cards. In the first place, it was the result of some clever market research which confirmed that by far the best Ferrari market lay in the United States, where the failure of several earlier models to comply with the increasingly severe anti-pollution laws had crippled sales, the 275 GTB/4 suffering worst of all.

From the very outset the men of Modena knew that, this time, they had to build a car to suit American conditions - and they gave it a huge publicity boost there by calling it - Daytona -, on the back of the P4 successes at Daytona Beach.

This grasp of commercial realities resulted in a car reflecting all the great Ferrari traditions and incorporating lessons learned from competition, but which could no longer be described - like the Berlinettas, which had proceeded it - as a fierce racing car capable of being driven on the road.

The 365 GTB/4 was first and foremost a road car - though certainly not to be confused with a placid tourer: that famous yellow shield with the black horse prancing upon it is evidence of a fiery temperament not far beneath the surface.

Through the long months of the design process the engineers settled a chassis specification for a powerful car, which would be comfortable as well as swift. The typical Modena welded steel tubular chassis inherited the mechanical format of the 275 GTB/4: front engine, gearbox/final drive at the back, the whole joined together by a large diameter tubular member and mounted on the chassis at four points.

The engine, likewise, was a V12, though of 4.4 litres capacity as in the rest of the contemporary Ferrari range; but though it shared their bore and stroke it differed substantially on several counts, the most obvious being its six double choke Weber carburettors and dry-sump lubrication. There were 352 of those prancing horses inside, capable of propelling the car up to more than 280 km/h.

The commercial success of the Daytona was owed as much to its Pininfarina body as to its mechanical pedigree. It predated by more than fifteen years current styling fashions like the wide flat bonnet incorporating the front wings, retracting headlamps - on the second series -, the total disappearance of the radiator surround, the recessed waist band: a study in curves, set off by the mildest of edges along the top of the front wings and a transom tail, its proportions and elegance are unsurpassable.

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