16.06.2004 With a cavalcade of cars arriving at the Fiorano track from all over the world, yesterday saw the start of the 275 Tour, Ferrari’s first ever classic car meeting dedicated to a single model

With a cavalcade of cars arriving at the Fiorano track from all over the world, yesterday saw the start of the 275 Tour, Ferrari’s first ever classic car meeting dedicated to a single model.

With over 50 cars entered, this is the biggest ever meeting of a model that saw Ferrari become a true industrial reality. The 275 – in its two-cam GTB and GTS and 4-cam GTB guises, was in fact the first Ferrari model to break the 1,000 unit production mark over 4 years.

Introduced in 1964 at the Paris Show, the 275 GTB remained in production until 1968, while the spider version was eventually superseded in 1966 after reaching 200 owners.

The cars gathered at the track for day one of the 6-day Tour included 23 GTBs, 5 GTSs, no fewer than four of the original 12 official Competizione versions and 20 GTB4s.

Highlight of the day was the chance for all the entrants to lap the Fiorano track, with the 1965 Le Mans car - that came 3rd overall and first in class at that year’s race – setting a fiercesome pace for all the rest.

Today the cars will return to the track for a timed special stage before leaving for the first leg of their journey through Tuscany, to reach Florence via the classic Vergato-Cereglio hillclimb.