BBR BBRC032A 1/43 Ferrari P540 Superfast Aperta 2010 Gold One-Off Fellini Resin
BBR BBRC032A 1/43 Ferrari P540 Superfast Aperta 2010 Gold One-Off Fellini Resin
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BBR BBRC032A | 1:43 Ferrari P540 Superfast Aperta 2010 | Gold | One-of-One | Ferrari Special Projects × Pininfarina — A Ferrari Born from Cinema, Edgar Allan Poe, and a Lifetime Dream
There is only one Ferrari P540 Superfast Aperta. One. In the entire world. And the story of how it came to exist is unlike that of any other car ever commissioned from Maranello.
It begins in 1968, in a Rome film studio, where Federico Fellini — the director of La Dolce Vita and 8½ — was completing the third episode of "Histoires Extraordinaires", an anthology film based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe. Fellini's contribution, titled "Toby Dammit", starred Terence Stamp as a dissipated English actor descending into delirium in nocturnal Rome, haunted by a vision of a small blonde girl. The story was drawn from Poe's "Never Bet the Devil Your Head." For this sequence Carrozzeria Fantuzzi was commissioned to build a special Ferrari — a low, open, gold-coloured machine with faired headlamps, a Plexiglas wraparound windscreen, an oval grille, and a roll-over hoop: a car that existed only in that film, only in that moment, and then disappeared.
It did not disappear from the memory of Edward Walson. The son of John Walson — the American inventor of cable television — grew up with that image. "I had always dreamed of designing sports cars," he would later explain to Ferrari, "and when I saw this film the decision came of its own accord: one day I would have 'my' Ferrari." In 2008, he approached Ferrari with that request: build me a modern version of the golden car from Toby Dammit.
Ferrari's Special Projects programme — the most exclusive custom coachbuilding service in the automotive world — took the commission. The P540 Superfast Aperta became only the second car ever produced by the programme. Pininfarina was entrusted with the design brief, maintaining the partnership through which the most important Ferrari road cars of the previous six decades had been created. Edward Walson was directly involved in every stage of development. The donor car was the Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano — the most powerful series production Ferrari road car at that time, carrying the Enzo's 6.0-litre naturally aspirated 65° V12 producing 620 PS at 7,600 rpm. Converting the coupé to an open-top configuration required Ferrari's engineers to reinforce the chassis using finite element analysis and extensive carbon fibre — yet the weight increase over the closed car was kept to just 20 kg, a testament to the precision of the engineering work. The entire journey from initial sketches to the final, road-legal, fully homologated car took fourteen months.
On December 10, 2009, Edward Walson took delivery of the car at Ferrari's Fiorano test circuit. His reaction was recorded: "This is the most special Christmas present of my life."
The P540 Superfast Aperta is road legal. It meets all international safety and homologation requirements. It is a real car that can be driven on any public road in the world. It is also the only one that exists.
The gold finish is not incidental — it is the point. It is the specific reference to the Fantuzzi-built car in Fellini's film, the colour that connects a 2009 Maranello commission to a 1968 Rome film set to Edgar Allan Poe's 19th century American gothic prose. It is perhaps the most layered and culturally resonant colour choice ever made for a Ferrari.
BBR Models of Saronno — the official model manufacturer of Ferrari, founded in 1984 — renders this singular car in their Concept series format, the only production 1:43 scale replica of a car of which no other version exists. In BBR's plexiglass showcase, brand new and factory sealed.