You see that Ferrari Daytona, the one sitting on the iconic Borrani wire wheels, painted “arrest me” red? Yeah, the one over there, the Spyder, with the quad pipes jutting out, ready to sing you the song of power? Yeah…it’s got something in common with the Ferrari Daytonas used on the television show “Miami Vice”: it’s as fake as a call girl’s passion in the bedroom. The outer skin is a kit car 365 GTB/4 Daytona, in this case the “GTC” kit from a company called Rowley. It’s one of the better Faux-aris we’ve seen, especially once you look inside: A pretty much Ferrari dash and neat-looking bucket seats are a step forward in hiding the truth.
Underneath the pretty skin, the red paint, and the Dayton wire wheels is the running gear and chassis of a 1979 Chevrolet Corvette. That means 350 and a four-speed, and basic costs. No five-digit engine services, no security detail making sure that it doesn’t disappear. Some might deride it as a fake, but we see potential: a rev-happy small-block Chevy and a good manual trans will make any C3 chassis dance, or you could go straight to insanity and start prepping a 427ci big-block swap. Imagine the looks on faces when people see a car they last saw on a Barrett-Jackson auction lay rubber for a city block!
eBay Link: 1979 Rowley GTC (Ferrari 365 GTB/4 “Daytona” replica on a C3 Corvette chassis)
The Miami Vice opening was one of the best themes ever.
That’s the first thing that came to mind when I saw this car!
That thing is begging for the V12 LS that was at SEMA last month and a T56 thrown in it.
Really really needs a gated shifter!
Some chassis bracing and tuning, and this might be the perfect car for embarrasing real-deal Ferraris on track.
…or you could put the air cooled Diesel out of the Ferrari Tractor from yesterday in it, and tell everyone you’ve got a real Ferrari motor under the hood.
This looks as much like a Ferrari Daytona Spider as Wor Lass looks like Lady Gaga and just to drag insult into injury its powered by a Chevy!
Time for the seller to be given a nice new heavy and warm pair of boots for Xmas so they can spend the rest of the holidays being slowly digested by fishes…..
I’d give them more for it if they’d take the motor and trans out of it….
Looks like the perfect home for a Ryan Falconer Racing Engines V12.
http://falconerengines.com/falconer_v12.php?v12=main
The guy from Miami Vice that owned part opf the company making the Replica Ferrari’s used in the first few episodes was sued by Ferrari. Then Ferrari provided a Real Ferrari to the show instead of the replica’s, and the company was forced to stop making them. I’f I recall proper;y they used Carmaro’s or Firebirds.
I am not a fan of kit cars not replicas like that. I think it would be better with the Ferrari badges removed. I would also start making the body more Corvette like. I’d leave the opening trunk, yet put in recessed 1968-1972 tail lights. Flair the wheel openings Wider wheels, change some suspension parts for better handling. Might even find some mid 80’s made wide body IMSA wanna-be kit. Then semi-flat paint it. Next would be a 383 Stoked SBC so it could atleast get in to the ’13’s’.