1967 Ferrari 275 GTB4 - Jay Leno's Garage

well another episode of Jay Leno's Garage today we have one of the most classically beautiful cars of all time this is a car that has intrigued me and eluded me since I was a teenager I remember when they were secondhand for forty five hundred dollars well who got that kind of money then they were twelve thousand well that's crazy then they were thirty thousand lots more than new and now they're just phenomenal because it is truly a great piece of kinetic art work it is just a rolling sculpture Pininfarina body if you don't know what I'm talking about it's a 1967 ferrari 275 gtb/4 cam this to me I think is the ultimate Ferrari it's the era when Ferrari really made an impression on me has the most impressive v12 engine will open that hood and show you what it looks like under there we'll get to drive the car and you can ride along with us and get a sense of what it's like but let's meet the very generous owner who brought it over here today David Lee David how are you buddy good to see ya good Jay how you doing David has a wonderful collection of Ferraris we drove a bunch of his cars I got to drive his la ferrari for Jalen's garage on the CNBC show the TV show that we do this is my my favorite this is my error you know I was 17 years old when this car came out and it made such an impression I mean and it's the classic Ferrari v12 front engine what is it how many liters it he's a 3.3 liter 3.3 liters which is really about the size of a small-block v8 that's like there's like a 302 something like that basically but it seems so huge yes kids and it makes how many how much was Bob it's a 300 horsepower 100 ray right yeah four cams you know a v12 four cam it's it's tremendous you know the other thing I think you appreciate it because Ferruccio Lamborghini was the one that spent a lot of money to to meet the four cam right and then when four always thought that was a good situation they made it on this car right yeah so it was kind of inspired you know you have to go back 50 years because four-cam is so incredibly exact now you can pick up a nice honor and they're all for camp to see those six carburetors the four cam the twin oil filters oh my god it was just a visual feast when you open the hood because as impressive as American v8 were this looked like just the height of complication and sophistication now you open that hood and it looks pretty straightforward compared to modern cars or plastic things and everything going every which way but you know there's not a straight line anywhere in this car everything flows and moves it's perfectly proportioned it's really one of the most beautiful cars of all time it's this one that you lusted after for a long time for a long time polenta I actually had a 275 gtb six carp short no six car which was nice but I've always wanted a four camper that's the ultimate driving Road car Ferrari and incidentally for Pio Ferrari it was also his favorite car because when I asked him I said what's your favorite motto of all the model she said this was and it was because when he was 16 his dad taught him to drive on the gdb I mean says dad of course Enzo Ferrari here and your dad teaching you to drive okay we'll take today take the car out learn to drive on the Ferrari gtp that's very good but you know it just harkens back to another era the classic wood steering I mean there's nothing like a wood steering I like modern see what they're thick in there you know I just love feeling that through your hand of course nothing sexier than the gated shifter it doesn't always about being the fastest guy out there it's what's the most involving what's the most exciting to drive and that's when unique and Pacific oh it's it's really really something and how long do you have this one well I've had it maybe uh six months or so but the guy that had it before own it for 47 years when a doctor in San Francisco and he took care of it he kept everything original he did restore it once but everything was restored to original and think how quickly you could make housecalls as a doctrine haha that's right now yeah yeah can we open the hood let's say sure sure yeah there you go look at that I love the crinkle finish on the cam cover and love covers yeah oh boy you know the end the four cam was the first not to use the wire wheels so first to use the non wire wheel so this is again we're original two to date as much I like the Bharani wire wheels these look more purposeful on this car you know just going across that famous Ferrari air cleaner try and find one of these oh my god that'll cost you a 10 grand from the manager I mean you can get an air cleaner or a Kia Yeah right it needs to become such objects of desire and this point it's pretty amazing and it's interesting that there were no headrests most American cars had headrests like 67 but still about the Europeans and its last of the old-school build quality guys with hammers old Italian guys bang bang bang you know amazing and you know this one looks a lot like that Ferrari 250 GTO right people feel like just a lot of similarities and stuff and this was just coming into fashion this came back yeah you know in the mid 60's oh because everything like I said is mechanical there's a logical reason like on this car you want to adjust the clock you pull this down waiter yeah Monica you hold down the clutch and press the air-conditioning button well you have your seat belt on that's not intuitive right oh right okay very straightforward in the course of famous ferrari exhaust that was another thing that no american cars had through the four pipes like that or about the the four-wheel independent suspension and and this breaks things i got did they have it j at that time with the other cars well corvette in 67 had independent suspension okay this breaks okay but yeah and Frye was not innovative that way I mean they kept the live axle and drum brakes for a long time but I think what a Lamborghini came along and Ferrari see in the competition over there you know this not my competition to improve it exactly it's really the best and of course the nice big pie plate tachometer you know Iowa's I love any dashboard I can read without having my glasses yeah cuz the gauge is it like this big and sure it's perfect it's very yeah I mean this is a car you could get a glass of wine sit in your garage and a chair and just look down for hours you because proportionally there's nothing off on it there's nothing on this car or I would say oh I wish I'd done this you know even for slats instead of three you know everything it's got the right seats it's got the right steering wheel the gated shifter all the one thing I did like and like Volusia was the quilted yet leather in the back yeah yeah yeah kind of cool yeah but this is one Ferrari was really starting to build Road cars to keep the races going yeah exactly this is what Henry Ford tried to buy right right right hey and they didn't and they made that gt40 right covered headlight which I always love yeah I love that that's that's really and I was talking to one of your guys is that that restores he said this part is this the hardest to to make yeah fit in and how many knees they build it so 350 350 yeah but you know these are just so few even though you think well 350 but a lot of the surviving ones and then and then the ones that original and restore well the numbers just start coming down yeah so it's it's just fun to go through all copies of road and track yeah from the early seventies and how cheap these were you could buy them secondhand I know $4,000 yeah like that was a lot of you know you can get a new car a brand new Corvette or secondhand oh yeah people didn't think of old cars the way we do now you know but you know in those days did you did people think that this was any did they have the same lure even more so because nowadays you can get on the internet you can see a video of one of these going around the track you see it in color and hide but when I was a kid you grew up in New England you waited for rodent tracking he saw a picture of it I remember once a Lamborghini a spotter went through town I didn't see it I just heard from it everybody talked about yeah you're all hanging around the Dairy Queen parking lot what nothing it just drives me and kids followed it you know they once in the next town to see where it went I mean it was just it was different now you can have access to anything whatever you want but you know nobody looked under the hood of the Ferrari when I was a kid if you didn't see one it was maybe at the Auto Show thing like that you know so yeah I would say the mystique was even greater really because Ferrari was a very tiny company yeah with a handful of Italian workers when Henry Ford tried to buy it you know just a little company and they made race cars and made street car you know so but the reputation has always been there this to me is their most beautiful period to me that the mid-60s when there is no rules and regulations on headline had to be this high I mean the bumpers at all nothing protective exactly tell me about the tires if you have to get those special of those were those original tires that were to period you know this the tire company still make them with fortunately so that we're able to to get a mug and because these the old tires would be too dangerous strapped it would probably blow out these are new ones that yeah to appear a nice thing about David is he drives all those cars you know which collectors it locks away and nobody can see it and don't touch the car and look at he brings it brings him to all the shows it's really great and I love it that's it's really a lifestyle you got a you got a you know live the lifestyle with they can't just yeah is like you it was a better lifestyle in the last but it's gotten to be like a crazy expensive lifestyle yeah it used to be well let me see when this car came out it was about sixteen seventeen thousand dollars and Citroen SM was 14 or 15 them so it was priced just like a lot of other cars I think the Lamborghini knew or was more I think the Lamborghini mirror was 20 mm and that kind of knocked these back a bit grow the rear engine at all but I mean they were more well fries had never really been affordable but they were more affordable man certainly then than it is now yeah now everybody knows the game you know but it's uh I know it's really and I just bought it six months ago so I definitely paid top market dollar for it but you certainly got a beautiful car if I did it's been repainted once what yeah 30 40 years ago yep yep Wow so that's a 30 or 40 year old picture that's amazing yeah the guy kept up really well and my guy keeps it up really world just as well your guys and that's what you need to its investments yeah I think it's time to take it for a ride this is what I like because with modern cars I sent so much time in the car Oh is my phone synched up and I got the thing as a navigator and and with mono cars you I was doing this yeah you know you know you got car play the cars reading emails to you know this is the era when you bought a car when you want to get away you want to get out of the office here's whatever it is you'd hop on this thing and go for a drive you just listen to that motor you know that engine sing and go through the gearbox it's just there's so many distractions on modern car this thing you might look check the time and that's okay but that's it you know and that's that's that's what I love about it just the purity of it there's nothing in this car that doesn't need to be here the only maybe superfluous thing is the electric window oh we have a little window and it's 67 electric windows were a big deal yeah they don't have to go like this you know I just bought some new cars and it was it's I only sell don't even know how to use all the functions and it bothers me yeah that cuz you don't feel like you know it you don't feel like a car guy because it's not intuitive I like to get into a strange car like this yeah I got in I instinctively okay I see the shift pattern I see the clutch okay I know how to drive this car how's it Drive J it drives very nicely you know the I always say this a real trick to Italian cars is letting all the fluids come up to temperature before you drive it like obviously this is a cottage and beautifully maintained it's got what eighty-four thousand miles on it but it feels like it's got 3,500 miles and you know I know you're a watch guy that's what David does he's a watch do and when you shift this it's like turning the mainspring of a watch you know he's looking at my my i watch with a kind of a grimace on his face but I this is the watch I use at the shop cuz I can answer yes no but he's like oh what's that I know you guys could watch it so but that's like that's why I've you know this has the Porsche synchro oh is that right yeah yeah that's when they put in the washer cinco with Ferrari on this for cam oh they work together and different company did indeed work together on that and you know Jaden they said this car can go 160 yeah that's pretty fast now the red line in this car is about 7,500 which was unbelievable back in the day nowadays even Mustangs go to eight and a half get out right but back in the day most American v---aids were out of breath at 5,000 rpm you know sometimes design has to age like when you look at at 53 Hudson way it's all rounded it looked dated in the 50s but you look at it now and it looks it looks like a howdy TT you know it's a beautiful shape I know it's always Rihanna horsepower but it's a different three out of dog different when you get the new Mustang four cylinder then it's got surround a noise power but it doesn't feel like this you know I mean this this talks to you the same it's a good Drive right it's a feeling Davis he was the editor of car driver magazine he said everybody should drive a12 similar car at least once in their lifetime right and you really see the difference this is so turbine smooth yeah yeah all my classic Ferraris are v12 for an individual yes I just love it and at three point three liters it's not over bill it's exactly right this is a Colombo v12 right lampredi did the other since i'm you know Enzo Ferrari got the idea for the v12 from the Packard v12 in 1915 Packard came out with a v12 okay and fryer was so impressed with it it wasn't a racing motor but but it's just smooth they were all man you know that's what he that was thought of his inspiration I see like a steering wheel is just a steering wheel no buttons no no horn in the middle deep McQueen had his cars again it's loose oh and that is gtb/4 NART Spyder did you remember that yes I I didn't know Steve that well I knew him a little bit and near the end he died in 1980 uh-huh but he was into all kinds of weird stuff early American motorcycles pickup trucks you know empty everything and he had the Ferraris of abortions and then he had just kind of cool stuff that he liked next year there's a seven-year anniversary Lego saying and there's one and they're trying to take from all the iconic cars in the last 70 years to inspire for this new car so they gave me an allocation for f12 Steve McQueen inspire car oh so it's going to be chocolate brown and insides get me they're going to make it as much as possible they look like that mousse so that all varieties alike yeah yeah and it'll be one of one car and that Ali MacGraw gave them that car yeah I was like 66 67 because it's the last year of pure design right by 68 enough all the government regulations can be add them up behind a dumb headlight yep it was this you can just design something I get looking at Miura it's not a puff around it but you can't park it anyway you know but it's just so cool because you're right you're right this era I think what's the best for Ferrari yeah I went to this high school in this this gal she was a rich gal and and I'm dad was driver I think it was a 308 go over to school you know Ferrari red she'd come out everybody thinks she's so cool so lucky yeah you know wish she could be have a dad like that yeah yeah sorry right so now I have a Ferrari and a lot of Ferraris and and I say son do you want me to take you to school oh there hey no you don't just get us you know don't still drop me off like wherever you see me you know yeah I am like what the heck hey JD like sushi or no I'm not another shooting at you more just uh I'm just pacing yeah you did where it's you know you know I always say this for only about eight miles from my shop and we're on roads here in California that have no traffic on them at all so if everything is chat California's always bumper-to-bumper traffic it's not look at it we haven't seen another car and we're driving a red Ferrari through the hills what's more fun than this come on let's drive some more yeah what sure and interpreters the good damages like well-tempered you're just coming up now yeah got plenty of headroom Lincoln can drive this thing we're at a big topic nice torquey motor pulls a lot of supercars beat you up you drive on me let me pull over we're getting a cramp on my leg or worse there's something you know where is this thing oh my god in the hood you know the overhang is so short yeah you're not looking down some long picture I figure out where the front end is okay this is the you know and the gtp they have the long nose and a short nose right in the regular two semi gtp they had two versions the long nose of a short girl right they were seeing at high speeds the short nose was like wobbling and stuff so in this for cam they only made up the long nose right long nose version so yeah that's supposed to help but it's just a different era you know all the people built this car were gone now oh they're alive they had to be pretty young when they started you know yeah you might have worked in this factor you know Valentino Balboni he was the test driver for Lamborghini he started Lamborghini was 18 years old yeah just made a whole career of it yeah yeah that's sort of the Golden Age of Italian cars I was that Maranello and so they took me on the laferrari on the on the firaon Oh track and then the official test driver is Dario and I was talking along limited I didn't speak in English but the person I translated said I was talking about the cars I have and he goes out he had the 288 GTO evolution he goes yeah I remember driving that testing that back then you know he's been there for over 30 years yeah yeah and I mean like you said making a career and he just he just remembers those stars first half everybody waves at you in this car what did you guys ride my dad we had a you know he had a 240 Twin Cities 240 do4 TD looking play like the slowest Mercedes yeah exactly is that the non turbo that's non turbo I remember I remember trying to get as much juice as I could out of it you know automatic automatic oh that's really slow Olivia would your dad think you're crazy and have all these cars or he thinks this is just the nuttiest thing he probably thinks daddy I remember I mean he passed already five years ago but but I remember when I got my Lamborghini he just really couldn't understand why I didn't get that did you go for a ride in it he you know he like I had to persuade him fight you know it's really cool daddy - no it's not it's okay eventually I got a minute once a day that's very fine it just like you know you love them for that it is they it's that old-school stuff it just it just makes me laugh what a bucket list thing this has been what a thrilled David thank you very much turkey buddy you know if you wanted how keen afford these kind of cars David is probably the one of the biggest watch dealers in America what's your website hwl jewelers a con hwl jewelers dot-com so if you want to buy a watch a real car guy and you have drivers watches too don't you yeah sure all kinds of cool stuff so yeah check it out check out some of the drivers watches he's got he's got really good stuff and he's got really cool cars and being able to drive this this is one of my fantasies from back in the day and thanks for making it come true David thank you buddy David Lee see you guys next week

Channel: Jay Leno's Garage

Views: 804,354

Rating: 4.9331722 out of 5

Keywords: david, lee, jeweler, car, enthusiast, jay, leno, garage, ferrari, gt, b4, 1967, Jay Leno, Jay Leno's Garage, car reviews, compares cars, classic cars, vintage cars, sports cars, super cars, cars, car gear, McLaren P1, Porsche 918 Spyder, Camaro Z28, jay leno garage, jay lenos garage, car collection, cnbc, episode, motorcycle, ford, corvette, tour, dodge, lexus

Id: NQ379uN_O2E

Length: 24min 9sec (1449 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 14 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/h20snap]

Hey Jay, you like sushi?

Sushi? Nah.

...Okay

[u/Annotate_Diagram]

HEAVY BREATHING

[u/dvb70]

Is this the first Ferrari he has done? I don't remember them ever doing one before and it's always been a thing with their personal collection that they have none. They always say it's due to how much they cost to collect but that's never made a lot of sense to me given the price of some of the cars they own.

[u/Obi-Wan_Kannabis]

My dad owns a 240 D and this video offends me.

Lol, in all honesty though, what a car.