One to Buy: ex-Clemente Ravetto / Pietro Lo Piccolo 1967 Ferrari Dino 206 S
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Ferrari conceived the Dino 206 S as a Group 4 challenger to contest the 1966 World Sportscar Championship which was the first year for a new rule framework that favoured purpose built Sports and Prototype machinery as opposed to production-based GT cars.
To qualify for Group 4, Ferrari would have to build at least 50 examples of the 206 S, however, nation-wide industrial action meant workers were thin on the ground and only 16 cars were ultimately completed to standard trim.
Although this meant the 206 S went on to spend most of its career competing in the Group 6 Prototype class, Maranello’s little flyer scored a plethora of significant wins to include class victories at the 1966 Targa Florio, Nurburgring 1000km, Spa 1000km and Coppa Citta di Enna. It also proved enormously effective at hillclimbing and took an array of national and international victories soaring up European mountain passes.
One of these rarely seen cars is set to go under the hammer at Bonhams sale at the the Grand Palais in Paris on February 6th.
Chassis 022 was originally completed in Spyder trim and sold to Italian privateer Clemente Ravetto who ran it in a couple of events with his most notable finish having been second place overall on the 1967 Monte Pellegrino Hillclimb. The car was then sold to Pietro Lo Piccolo who campaigned it extensively and very successfully between 1968 and 1970. For 1969, Lo Piccolo had chassis 022 equipped with a super lightweight Montagna-spec. body of the type used by Scuderia Ferrari back in 1967. In this updated configuration the car went on to have its best results scoring seven outright hillclimb wins.
During the years that followed, 022 passed through the hands of several renowned French Ferrari collectors to include Jess Pourret, Pierre Bardinon, Jean-Marie Cauwet and, most recently, Jack Setton, with whom it has resided since 1984.
