{"id":8926,"date":"2020-02-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/serenissima-3000-sp-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-09T07:48:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T07:48:09","slug":"serenissima-3000-sp-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/serenissima-3000-sp-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Serenissima 3000 SP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In 2019 Artcurial made big headlines at the Retromobile Paris. Three sports cars from a collection kept secret in Italy had actually been rolled onto the big auction stage. This collection belongs to the former builder of these sports cars and founder of the associated car brand Serenissima, Count Volpi di Misurata. Due to the relatively short period of success of this manufacturer, the low production number and the long period in which hardly any of the rare cars were seen worldwide, Serenissima was mostly forgotten even in Italy. According to Artcurial, apart from the three cars auctioned last year, only two more cars are still known today, the 358V Berlinetta and the open race car 3000 SP. At this point we would like to add the Formula 1 car M1AF and the concept car Jungla. In fact, the auction house has managed to get another Serenissima for auction during the Retromobile in Paris next weekend.

This is the 3000 SP, whose history is definitely worth reading. It all began with Bruce McLaren starting to build his own racing cars in 1965. He soon declared the Ford engines offered as too heavy and went in search of an adequate replacement, which he found at Serenissima. There they used a three-liter V8 developed by Alberto Massimino with four overhead camshafts and dual ignition in the street sports cars. Massimino had previously worked for Maserati, Ferrari and Alfa Romeo. Two of the Serenissima V8 engines were sent to McLaren for testing purposes and were finally used in the M2B in Formula 1 in 1966. At the same time, a CanAm chassis from McLaren went to Serenissima, where another V8 engine was installed. In order to create optical differences to the McLaren base, a separate coup\u00e9 bodywork was made of glass fibre reinforced plastic. Tests were carried out in Modena in this form, with both chief engineer Giuliano Giuliani and British racing driver Jonathan Williams behind the wheel. After some minor problems with the new design had been eliminated, the prototype made its first race at the Coppa Citt\u00e0 di Enna in 1968 in Pergusa, Sicily, and ultimately only was beaten by Jo Siffert in his Porsche 910.<\/p>\n\n\n

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