‘It’s a Ferrari built for Le Mans, but with no roof. That’s like building a submarine with a sunroof.’
Ferrari’s Forgotten Supermodel: The 1964 Ferrari 330 LMB Fantuzzi Spider
It’s rarer than a 250 GTO and painted gold before it was fashionable.
The Fantuzzi Spider was Ferrari’s most outrageous idea — a Le Mans Berlinetta without a roof.
Only one exists. It looked like Sophia Loren in racing boots.
And Ferrari said, ‘No thanks.’
But it did star in a film. And now it haunts concour lawns like an unsolvable riddle on Borrani wheels.
1963–64: Genesis of Madness:
Ferrari builds the 330 LMB as a GTO successor: longer wheelbase, bigger V12, faster, rarer.
Just four LMBs were made; one got a golden Fantuzzi Spider body. Why? No one’s entirely sure.
Possibly built for an American client. Or a film. Or just because someone dared.
1968: Hollywood Calls:
The gold Fantuzzi Spider appears in Spirits of the Dead, driven by Terence Stamp.
A Ferrari. Painted gold. In a psychedelic film. This was the peak of the 1960s.
Later Life:
The body was transferred to a 330 GT 2+2 chassis and resprayed red.
Today, it’s a unicorn: rarely seen, barely acknowledged, but whispered about by collectors.
The F540 Superfast Aperta (2009) was Maranello’s only nod to its sun-kissed, open-top outlaw.
‘Imagine telling Enzo Ferrari: ‘We’ve made a convertible race car in gold.’ You’d have been excommunicated by the exhaust pipe.’
