Ferrari 312 PB replica Made from Scratch!

Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a huge, huge, hugeeeeeeeeeee Ferrari fan. I can’t say that I own any thing Ferrari though except for the Ferrari F1 Uniform which I wear whenever there’s an F1 race happening on the weekend and quite a number of car models.

But I must say the guy in the video was just awesome! Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear fame interviewed him way back in 1998 but I only saw the video yesterday and just have to share it here. His name is Pierre Scerri, this Ferrari enthusiast built a perfect scale model of a Ferrari 312 PB. Painstakingly create all the parts all by himself. Truly stunning to see, what single minded devotion has accomplished over 15 years.

And the car can actually be driven, if we could find someone small enough to fit in. Yes, every single parts works, from the gearbox to the engine to the indicator lights. In his own words “I could not buy one, I had to make one.” He began his project for the model in 1978, out of desire for having a Ferrari that could function in his dining room. Pierre Bardinon, owner of the Mas du Clos race track, allowed Scerri to take detailed photographs of the actual car on display at the adjacent Ferrari museum. Based on those photographs, he drafted the schematics and made the molds for all parts of the model, a process which took 15 years.

In 1989, he finally completed assembly of the engine, a perfect scaled replica of the Flat-12 cylinder engine found on the 312PB. He reportedly took extra time tuning the engine so that it would sound like the full-scale model. The project was finally completed in December of 1992.

Scerri is now working on 3 new models, a Ferrari 330 P4, another Ferrari 312PB and an engine for a Ferrari 250 GTO, all 1:3 scale.