![]() ![]() The very first Special Projects car was built for Japanese businessman Kazuo Maruyama, actually Japan's first Ferrari owner. That would have been a crazy profit as he reputedly spent $4 million to have it built. To build his mashup of new and old, Pininfarina took an unregistered Ferrari Enzo chassis and went to town to build something that, reportedly, a member of the Saudi royal family offered Glickenhaus $40 million for. James Glickenhaus of the Glickenhaus & Company investment empire wanted a modern take on his 330 P3/4. Ferrari did make some one-off-one models also before Ferrari Special Projects. Not all of the one-offs have been seen in public but when you see the letters "SP" in the title you know where it came from. Since announcing its Special Projects Division some ten years ago, Ferrari has been dedicated to creating one-off cars but now it’s pretty snobbish about who is allowed to buy them and the list is pretty exclusive. These one-off creations you can only dream about are reserved for Ferrari's favourite and wealthiest customers. Soon it has come to the creation of completely new projects and, after the birth of the Ferrari Style Center in 2010, most of the projects were managed internally by the team of Flavio Manzoni. ![]() Initially, the idea was to allow customers to work with the best Italian design companies to create unique reinterpretations of sporty Ferrari, in collaboration with Maranello experts. To revive the spirit of these bodied cars, in 2008 Ferrari launched the Portfolio Coachbuilding Program. All the best coachbuilders wanted to cover the splendid Ferrari chassis with the result that now, to fascinate collectors, there is a wide range of unique specimens of the Prancing Horse. Customers decided on the chassis and engine with the factory and then chose an Italian coachbuilder to make the bodywork. In the early days of Ferrari, having a custom bodywork was the norm. If not therefore particular peaks of elegance, however, we expect surprising models whose existence is sometimes not even known. It is difficult, in fact, to imagine improving the standard Ferraris designed by the Maranello company. ![]() Often VIP people have a lot of money but rarely a good taste. ![]()
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