Tom Talks: Ferrari 500 Superfast | Tom Hartley Jnr 

400hp, a 5 speed, and disc brakes were all insane in the mid 60's. I bet it feels strong even today

my great uncle had one in gold in the sixties. needless to say it led to a lot of agitation when he came to our poor rural town to collect his debt each month. haha

I have never heard of this model. It's very impressive.

Stunning, what a story, history and video to watch, thank you for sharing with us, absolutely love the To. Talks series. Thank you.

Yep, the Great days of Ferrari, Hugh Hefner, and Playboy Magazine! The days of Wine & Roses! Very Wonderful memories! Thank you ❤!

Another fantastic presentation Tom, I really look forward to these videos. You must of had goosebumps going through those letters. Mr Miller has left a great legacy with that Car. Keep up the great work. Atb.

Great video, thank you. One of my childhood memories is of reading a feature in the AA Drive magazine profiling the seven UK owners of the 500 Superfast. Eric Miller was among them. I remember too that one of them sadly wrote off his car and was killed in a high-speed crash before the magazine went to press. The magazine would make a fascinating addition to this car's history file.

Great watch, loved the opening scene, so informative, well done Tom, absolutely stunning

Amazing video & insight. I am watching all your past Tom Talks vids. Please keep them coming and thank you so much for doing them!

Love the history file. A far cry from modern “digital service histories”.

What a fantastic video. Your passion for these cars really shines through!

Amazing video as always. Really enjoy these videos, these 500 superfast and 400SA cars are so elegant, so much presence.

Beautiful history, this Superfast!! Thank you Tom!!

As always, a brilliant video and talk from Tom. Keep up the good work !

I love Classic Cars and i love nothing more, than distinguished gentlemen such as yourself, talking about them. Beautiful video, great music, thanks Tom and team, a real treat for the eyes and ears.

I love the history behind the cars (models and specific units as well). Congratulations for this amazing video.

A wonderful video, loved the shooting. Thank you Tom for your insight and enthusiasm that shines through. Great stuff!

Superb as always. Love these in depth looks at your cars. Keep them coming 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Excellent video Tom. What a stunning car.

beautiful.....so precious.....another awesome car from Tom Hartley.....great video

Great video. Well thought out and presented. I thoroughly enjoyed watching. Thank you.

Tom.. What a beautiful car and interesting history on it, you Harry and Ian Tyrell are the best car RU-vid’r’s in the UK . 😊

I really learned a lot from this kind of video,pls keep making more

Fantastic as always Tom.The insight and your incredible knowledge is indispensable. Thank you. The car is stunning!

Another video which just oozes class Tom. Fantastic.

I’m glad I found this wonderful channel! All best wishes to the producers of these priceless videos! Andreas Martin, Lute

This is a great channel with superb quality content - really surprised it doesn't have more subscribers...

Fantastic car!!! Huge conggrats Tom!

Thank you Tom, great video on a great car.

Lovely car and a very interesting presentation of it!

No matter what anyone says Tom is definitely the best in the UK , if not the World, at what he does. What an amazing car I hate to think what it will cost.

Wonderful video. More of this please! Seems from the Brooks catalogue that Miller died in tragic circumstances.

Amazing history and detail.... what a beauty of a car

Thank you Tom for another fascinating video. Note the small gaggle of 993’s in shot, video on those please if you can.

Love these videos👍🇦🇺

Love your videos tom,you are a great teacher,i have learned so much,👍

Another fantastic video Tom - you are an absolute pleasure to listen to. Loved seeing the Agnew supplied 993 RS in the background too - my Dad was offered it for £70K when trading in his then 993 Carrera and turned it down after a test drive as he felt it was too harsh for him (which I can understand) and ordered a new 996 instead - isn’t hindsight a wonderful thing!

8.43 . A four ringer folder = one cherished car !

Please do more of these

I love the car, what exquisite lines. Now I know where the 812 Superfast gets it’s name. Thank you for these great videos.

Such a shame with all the safety restrictions that they can’t build cars this beautiful any more 😢

Just saw this very same car in a carpark in the University of Limerick next to the Limerick hurling team training. I think I know who bought the car from you Tom!

Cars with documented history have an identity, with identity you trigger emotions, emotions grow passion, and with that you will be in front of a soul talking about her memoir she lived with humans who formed, shaped, touched, and took care of her.

I would have more fun driving an old jewel like this than driving any modern supercar. Sports car in its purest form.

What a great channel

There is a beautiful white one in the U.K. It was on the cover of a magazine back in the 80s.

This is a stunning ferrari ..400bhp in 1965!!

I remember when this was first introduced. My first thoughts were on the price. It was eye watering. I also was not too keen on its overlong boot. I thought it spoilt the overall lines of the car. Great informative video.

400bhp in a road car in that period seems like more of an achievement than the chiron today.

There's one of these in a barn in Wiltshire.......it's been there for about 35 years. Unmolested, original condition, ready for restoration.

This is super interesting. I love the attention to all original parts and so much history on it. Superfast become superrare. Btw i cant recognise chronograph you ware. Is it IWC davinci?

Peter Sellers stated that if his garage was on fire he would rather the car burn than somebody touch it

Fascinating review thanks. As mentioned in earlier comments, original owner not quite a match for the calibre if the car

The luvrers where inspired by fighter planes of ww2.

Eric Miller I believe owned Park West Apartments in the Edgware Road in London in the late 60's

Over 33 years ago a family friend mentioned his (wealthy) London Client that has owned a Ferrari Super-fast. A gentleman so wealthy that he flew his entire entourage of friends and family to Israel (in a privately chartered airliner) for a birthday celebration. This may well therefore have been the the car that his client owned. Having just read up a brief history of Eric Miller (thanks to Wikipedia) he certainly fits the bill.

Fifty years on and still going, I remember a friend saying that I cost just under fourteen thousand pounds to get one on the road that was at the end of 65 beginning of 66 it was a huge chunk of cash back then, I am sure it will be worth every penny of its price today.

There is an important bi-history between the Ferrari Superfast and the Alfa Superflow, both by Piininfarina made. Each brand made prototypes Mk 1 to Mk 4. The modt important difference was that the Alfas came always ca. 1 year ealier on the stage as the Ferrari prototypes, both aerodynamic progects started in the mid 50's. Knowing the history well it looked very strange too me. It was like as Alfa was financed by the Italian State, the most money for the project came exactly from Alfa. Never ever later a Ferrari was in some way comming as second important in s project. Of course the Alfas had first 4 cylinder and later 6 cylinder. The Alfs Superflow IV.(4) was the last prototype, but also in thid stage the car reached series possibilities, which at Alfa went on with the Alfa modern Spider body which finally came as Duetto or boat tail Spider on the market as series car. Of course a much cheaper 4 cylinder version of what was thought at the very start of the project, but already in the early 50's Alfa after winning the first 2 official F1 titles, and had like Lancia started to leave the market of one-off and small series cars, which was in the first 50 years Alfa terrain, and with the 1900 it started to transform which finally culminated in the Giulietta as first real Alfa "mass-produced" car models(higher numbers hit it better than mass-produced, of course). From all models that went in series after the Superflow, the Alfa Spider boat tail was the one with the most resemblance to the last Superflow, even of course Pininfarina in reality made a modern prototype with a much more aerodynamic body, and thought as successor of the Giulietta/Giulia Spider of the 50/60's, colminating in the 1966 yhrn already in series produced Slfa Spider. Ferrari grew on Alfa's and Lancia's tradition to the only most succesful super sports-car manufacturer ........on the world, till today.

Gorgeous car, but must say, I think I'd prefer a 330.

Heaven

Is this car still for sale

Wonderful. If my numbers come up I'll call and add it to my collection.

Bonjour Mr et encore merci tout a fait les Ferrari et n'importe quel voitures de collection doivent être répertoriés mais le monde est vaste . j'ai vu des voitures encore plus belles Que les originaux la contrefaçon existera toujours ... même pour les papiers . les tableaux montres. Ext ext a l'époque j'ai vu 2 magnifiques prototypes même numéro chassis même couleur même moteur ext ....... encore merci pour votre expérience sincères salutations lepeltierferrari Suisse amicalement.

And here i am, calculator in hand dealing with red numbers...

At 2:00; I very much doubt that the Shah of Iran would be included in a list of the world's greats.

Sir Eric Miller, the original owner of the car, was a property developer with social and political ambitions with close links to the Labour Party. Whilst under investigation for fraud and embezzlement from Peachey Property Corporation, the company he chaired, he committed suicide in 1977. Shunned by his political and society 'friends' at his funeral, he is at least remembered for his exquisite taste in cars, the Ferrari Superfast being the prime example amongst others including a rare rhd 'flat floor' 1961 E-Type Jaguar.

I’m here because of VinWiki

25 LHD and 6 RHD .... he missed 5 LHD. Out of the 36, how many in white or purple? Any one off colours?

Solo ferrari puede inspirar a eso FERRAI

Out of interest, according to the BofE cpi calculator, £12k in 1965 equates to £240k today, with inflation averaging 5.6% pa over the last 55yrs. So, perhaps the Superfast was a bit of an expensive bargain when new!

those video and picture overblendings are extremely annoying optically

More like a Superslow. Dang there's something wrong with that thing.

If Mr. Miller wanted so badly a red interior Mercedes, then why not buying a dam Mercedes Benz! dead people can be quite annoying.

So desirable. Would prefer no music. Needless & distracting. Slightly baffled as to why you added it 🤔

Sir Eric Miller shot himself amid a cloud of financial scandal. One might consider this a "stolen car" due to how the money was obtained to purchase it.

Man, those transitions are unbearable!