A true one-off, the Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Shooting Brake started life as a regular Daytona, leaving the factory at Modena in 1972. After two years in standard form, it was sent to Panther Westwinds coachbuilders in the UK for conversion into a shooting brake. It took over a year for the transformation to be completed, primarily because the new design involved remodeling almost every part of the bodywork, with only the doors, windshield, and A-pillar carried over from the original car.
It was then delivered to a Florida-based architect who only kept the car for a few years before selling it. It’s bounced around owners ever since, most recently coming up for auction in 2016. Perhaps the most notable addition to the car was the gullwing side windows, which opened outwards to allow the driver to access luggage without needing to open the rear hatch. An unusually practical feature for a Ferrari, but one that evidently never translated into much real-world use — in a 2008 auction listing, the car was reportedly to have less than 4,000 miles on the odometer.
[Featured image by Gordon Calder via Wikimedia Commons | Cropped and scaled | CC BY 2.0]
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