Glickenhaus Gone Wild
Seth Glickenhaus has consistently put up big numbers in a long career on Wall Street. Now...
Seth Glickenhaus has consistently put up big numbers in a long career on Wall Street. Now 92 years young, it looks like he will approach Phillip Carret’s record of longevity on the Street.
His son James Glickenhaus, who now works with his father, commissioned a one-off Ferrari designed by Pininfarina and based partially on the 612 P4/P5 pictured above.
Glickenhaus personally commissioned Pininfarina in 2005 to build his dream car, a carbon composite body penned by the same designers responsible for the Maserati Birdcage 75th show car to commemorate the firm’s 75th anniversary, and the Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano that debuted earlier this month at the Geneva Motor Show. According to Glickenhaus in online postings, the 612 P4/5 with all-new carbon composite bodywork was executed by a Pininfarina designer identified only as “Jason.” Jason Castriota is the one credited with both the Maser and newest Ferraris exteriors.
Glickenhaus requested an unregistered U.S.-spec Enzo to get everything rolling. Middle of last year, Pininfarina and Ferrari of Beverly Hills found the only unregistered, un-driven 2003 Enzo on earth and shipped it, still shrink-wrapped in its factory protective white plastic, to Pininfarina to start its transformation. Auto Week
Autoblog also interviewed Glickenhaus…
AB: Did you approach Pininfarina or did the Italian design house approach you with the idea to build a one-off Ferrari based on the Enzo?
JG: Pininfarina approached me and asked if I would be interesting in commissioning a one-off car and I responded that I’d be interested in something that looked like a P4 built on an Enzo chassis.
AB: Could you briefly explain the story surrounding the true identity of your Ferrari 330 P3/4 with chassis no. 0846 and tell us if that played into your desire to build a P4/5 of your own?
JG: Briefly I bought what I believed to be an original P4 motor and P4 gearbox and other original P4 parts mounted on a replica P4 chassis, and after a massive investigation found that against all odds I had bought the original P3 chassis remains of P 3/4 0846, 0846’s original 66 593 type P3 gear box, 0846’s Original P4 heads and various other original remains of 0846, and I totally rebuilt those parts into 0846 as she exists today. Ferrari S.p.A. helped me by recasting P4 uprights for me, and my acquisition of 412P 0854, a “No Question Car,” enabled me to restore 0846 to her original Spyder configuration using the original spyder tail of P4 0858, which I also acquired. I am currently restoring 412P 0854 to her proper coupe configuration using her original coupe body, which I also acquired. For those interested in reading an in depth investigation of 0846, click here.
AB: Since it’s based on the Ferrari Enzo, we’re assuming that the P4/5 will be street legal in the U.S. and meet safety and emissions regulations. Is this the case?
JG: Yes, that is the reason we began with a new fully US legal Ferrari Enzo and all modifications were made within all applicable safety and emission requirements and were crash tested by computer. P 4/5 is street legal world wide. read short interview at Autoblog
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