Blaine's Cyber World  Ferrari Daytona Spyder 365 GTS replica

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  - Ferrari 365 GTS / 4 Daytona Spyder replica MY SEARCH page (with lots of pictures of various Daytonas)

  - Ferrari 365 GTS / 4 Daytona Spyder replica (sold 2006) 

Ferrari Daytona replica with Plexiglass headlight cover                                     Alfa Romeo mirror & 2-tone head rest

ABOVE: 'Hudson' Daytonas feature a TR7 windshield with side 'cozy wings'                                      11/2004 just after the suspension upgrade and 'lowering'.

BEFORE: body sat too high on the frame                                                                         AFTER: Lowered by 4" (really!) 

Dayton wheels w/ knock-off center hub sub beautifully for correct Boranni wires

Original Monza tips from four pipes & four mufflers:                                                                    Summer 2006 upgrade: ANSA tips & four Maganflow mufflers (ABOVE) on four 1 7/8" pipes

ENGINE: BEFORE: a basic L98                                                                                                 AFTER: Chrome valve covers, black wrinkle paint & custom P-Flow

Little Italy!  Mike Hudson's Daytona Factory during full production.  Clockwise from far left: red 365 GTB coupe; blue 365 GTS was the first of Mike's GTS cars; A Rolls Royce; dark blue 365 GTS (behind red car), MY red 365 GTS; unpainted 365 GTS was later finished in gold.    

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REAL VS REPLICA:  Here are a few pictures to compare a real Ferrari 365 GTS/4 with my car

real Daytona interior                                                                                                           Hudson Daytona interior + Nardi wheel and fabricated shift gate

  < New 'custom' interior 2008 (how sweet is that!) in place of Hudson interior.

New 'custom' interior added by the new owner of my Daytona (since Aug. 2006) in 2008.  Everything redone, + A/C vents & key on dash.

My replica Daytona dash (see 'Hudson interior' didn't have the standard 4 climate control 'sliders' or the 3 or 4 toggle switches.                                                                                           You'll also notice that the radio was in the wrong location, as are the electric window switches.

Most 365 GTS Daytonas have the Nardi steering wheel with 2 holes in each spoke.                                                                                                                                                                     Earlier GTB Daytonas had a Nardi wheel (like my car) or the 3 spoked version without a long slot opening. 

Another item of note on my car was the lack of breather holes punched in the black slats on the seats.

2006-2008 - the new owner of my car has not only replaced the interior as shown above, but corrected the flaws in the body which included the driver's side rear wheel well (which is now actually round) and straightened the side 'blood lines' (had 'dropped' in the rear section before and weren't perfect at door transitions).  Key holes were also moved (lower left picture) to the proper location.  Check out the new 'shift gate' and shifter set-up, switches, ash tray, climate control, and seat vents.  Exhaust and more have also been updated.  Now this car has gone from hybrid to true replica!    

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Ferrari produced 124 Daytona Spyders (GTS).  All the spyders were built by Scaglietti in Modena, Italy.  After Enzo Ferrari died, the price of these special cars soared well above $1 million.  A number of Daytona Berlinetta (GTB or Coupe) owners had the hardtop removed to convert into Spyders for various reasons including to profit from the inflated market value. It is possible to identify the converted cars as they typically don't have the same amount of curvature in the boot lid panel and the degree of windshield rake is not as steep as the original spyders' since the Berlinetta configuration was often carried over to avoid having to alter the doors and the glass.  Mike Hudson, the man responsible for making my Daytona stated that, "the easiest way to tell a cut coupe from a real spyder, is that the area behind the seats on a coupe was fiberglass to save weight, and on a spyder the wall area behind the seats was metal to stiffen up the cockpit area."

Over the past decade, vintage Ferrari values have seen a market correction.   Today, the price of an authentic Spyder can range up to about $450,000 US, while converted Spyders sell up to half of that price.

One conflicting item I've found is the issue of the headlight panel.  I have read that the only Ferrari Daytona Spyder to be fitted with a Plexiglass headlight panel across the nose was the yellow 365 shown at the 1969 Frankfurt Auto Show and that 'all' production models came with pop-up headlights to conform to new US safety standards.  I have also read that European-spec cars still featured the Plexiglass panel, though different sources disagree on this issue.  Since a number of 'produced for America' GTBs were manufactured before this time with the Plexiglass panel, some US cars converted to Spyders feature this nose.  The maker of my car stated that it was made to match the 'Euro-spec' design, which also included 2 amber tail lights.  My car does feature the US-spec amber front turn signals, while Euro-spec cars have white and amber front signal lenses.         

I've always considered the 365 GTS/4 to be the most beautiful car that I'd ever seen.  In August 2003, I was able to purchase a replica of the dream car that I had been captivated by over 3 decades ago.  As you could read above, I sold the car in 2006 after 3 enjoyable years of cruising.       

The above pictures are of the Daytona I formerly owned.  This car is one of 8 produced by Mike Hudson in the mid 1990s.  It has a 1988 L98 350 TPI (tuned-port fuel injection) engine with a T700 R4 4-speed automatic transmission.

LINKS:

Daytona Replica Club    Awesome UK Replicas

Ferrari 365 GTS4            Replica History, Film History and more

KitCar.com                            Lots of data and a great place to search for a car  

KitCars.com                    More data and 'for sale' listings

Kit Car Magazine            Excellent resources and more

KitCar Online                       Data and resources

Ebay                                      Replica listings

My Search                             Pictures and descriptions of the 30+ Daytona-like cars I found  

Email me                                FerrariDaytona@yahoo.com

VIDEOS:

video 1                              new exhaust / Summer 2006 / shift from 1st to 2nd