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This is an incredibly rare and VERY early Enzo Ferrari item!

Being born in 1898, Enzo took up an interest in cars at a very early age and after the death of both his father and his brother had to provide for himself and his widowed mother. After some mechanical jobs and having been declined a job at FIAT, due to lack of qualifications, he met Ugo Sivocci in 1919 who was a test driver at the Milanese car manufacturer CMN (Construzioni Meccaniche Nazionale) who were converting ex-WW1 militairy vehicles for civilian use but were planning to venture into more sporting cars.

Sivocci got Enzo a job at CMN as a test driver and it was here that Enzo entered his first automobile race, the Parma Poggio di Bercetta hillclimb on October 5th, 1919 where he came in 4th.

On November 23, 1919 both Sivocci and Enzo entered the grueling Targa Florio and drove their CMN race cars through the wind, rain & snow (!) on Sicily eventually finishing 2nd & 3rd in their class.

This vintage 1919 (possibly early 1920) advertisement was placed by CMN to promote their cars and the stunning results of their drivers in that race.

It proudly announces that they came in 2nd & 3rd in their class and that of the 21 starters, only 9 made it to the finish... they conveniently "forgot" to mention that Enzo's 3rd in class was actually 9th overall and therewith last...

In 1920 Enzo would switch to Alfa Romeo and the rest is history...

In this advertisement we see Ugo Sivocci proudly posing in the CMN of... Enzo!

This is the oldest vintage item that we have ever unearthed in which Enzo is actually mentioned as a racing driver!

A little bit more can be told about Ugo Sivocci as when Enzo moved to Alfa Romeo in 1920, Sivocci followed suit and he was hired to participate in the three-men Alfa Corse team (Enzo, Antonio Ascari & Sivocci). In 1923 he won the Targa Florio outright in an Alfa Romeo RL. He died on September 8, 1923 while testing the new Alfa Romeo P1 at Monza. His car carried race number 17 and following his accident, the # 17 would never again be assigned to an Italian racing car...

A FANTASTIC period piece that is exceptionally well suited for framing!

Measure approximately 29 x 39 cm or 11.5 x 15.5 inches.

Only 1 available of course.

This is a great VINTAGE poster for the 34th running of the Targa Florio / 10th running of the Giro di Sicilia.

It urges you to buy the race program which was available at every news stand and costs a mere 30 Lira.

It is printed on very thin paper and is in excellent condition bar a small tear at the top (visible in the scan) and two tape marks from being displayed in 1950. Folded as original but stored flat for decades.

Maybe the only one left in the world?

The race was won by Mario & Franco Bornigia on Alfa Romeo 8C-2500 Sperimentale.

Second place was for Inico Bernabei & Tulio Pacini on Ferrari 166 MM S/N 0036M which survives to this day) while third place went to Baron Stefano La Motta (would get killed the next year at the same event...) & Gennaro Alterio on Ferrari 166 S (S/N 001S which was scrapped after La Motta was killed in it).

The poster measures some 69 x 50 cm or 28 x 20 inches and was printed in Palermo (where else?).

Only 1 pc. available!

This is a vintage 1953 photo of the Abarth-bodied Ferrari 166MM of Giulio Musitelli being towed back onto the road after an off into a field during the 1953 Targa Florio which he would still finish in 21st place.

This is a vintage print, i.e. printed shortly after the original image was captured on film.

The car, S/N 0262M, was originally delivered as a Vignale Spyder in March 1953 but quickly rebodied as a Spider by Abarth for the May 1953 Targa Florio (its maiden race).

In 1954 it was again rebodied, this time by Scaglietti and again as a Spyder.

In recent years it has been brought back to its Abarth body style again.

It seems to reside in the USA now.

The photo measures some 4 x 3 inches or 10 x 7 cm and is in excellent condition. The back carries the stamp of Randazzo in Palermo, Italy along with some penciled annotations.

Only 1 (one) available.

This is a vintage 1964 print of a pits scene during practise for the 1963 running of the Targa Florio.

It shows the # 174 Ferrari 250P of Mike parkes & John Surtees (accident after 4 laps) and the Abarth Simca 1300 Bialbero # 40 of Enzo Buzzetti & Renzo Sinibaldi (DNF after 2 laps).

The Ferrari is S/N 0810 which survives to this day in the USA.

The print COULD come from Castrol Oil as we have seen similar images in Castrol publications of that era and it measures some 25 x 18 cm or 10 x 7 inches.

It is in near mint condition.

Only 1 pc. available of course.

This is a vintage 1964 print of Ludovico Scarfiotti at speed in a Sicilian village during the 1963 running of the Targa Florio.

Scarfiotti was partnered with "Wild" Willy Mairesse and unfortunately, the car was crashed on the 4th lap.

The car, bearing # 172 in this race, is S/N 0812 which survives to this day.

The print COULD come from Castrol Oil as we have seen similar images in Castrol publications of that era and measures some 25 x 18 cm or 10 x 7 inches.

It is in near mint condition.

Only 1 pc. available of course.