1953 Ferrari 375 MM Spyder

The 375 MM built by Ferrari for its privateer clients used a 4,522 cubic centimeter twelve-cylinder Lampredi long-block engine with triple Weber 40 IF4/C carburetors and twin magnetos. Twenty-six examples of the 375 MM were built in total and all but three of them were clothed by Pinin Farina. The successor to the 375 MM was the 1954 375 Plus, which would capture an outright victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

This particular example is believed to be the ninth of 26 examples built, and the fourth of 12 cars completed with spider coachwork by Pinin Farina.

Casimiro de Oliveira was a gentleman racer from Porto, Portugal who began competing in motorsports events prior to World War II. 0366AM was completed in November 1953 and delivered to de Oliveira in Casablanca, Morocco. The car was to be included as part of the Scuderia Ferrari team assembled to compete in the 12 Hours of Casablanca race. Reigning World Champion Alberto Ascari put the car, wearing #1, on the pole for the race. Unfortunately, de Oliveira then crashed hard during a practice session and the car was unable to compete. Returned to the Ferrari factory for extensive repairs, it was shipped to Sweden in May 1954 for the 9 Hours of Hedemora Grand Prix where de Oliviero qualified on the front row and won. Another crash in the 1954 Grand Prix of Sweden sent this 375MM back to Ferrari for further repairs. The damage was sufficient to require an entirely new body and the 375MM became the first and only of its kind to wear coachwork by Sergio Scaglietti. It went to its new Swedish owner, Ferrari importer Tore Bjurstrom, where local driver Vlademar Stener raced it to second overall in the Helsinki Grand Prix and fifth overall in the Swedish Grand Prix.

After the 1956 season, the car was retired from competition. Gunnar Fristedt became the car's next custodian during the mid-1960s and he commissioned a coachwork modification that changed the front end into a dual-nostril shark nose design. It was shown at the sports car show in Malmö, Sweden in 1969 and sold the following year to Ake Andersson of Stockholm. Two additional Swedish owners followed during the early 1970s before it was treated to a restoration by David Clarke's Graypaul Motors in the United Kingdom.

Lord Charles Brocket acquired it in 1992 and retained it for a short time, displaying in 1992 at Coy's Historic Race Festival at Silverstone before being sold to Chuck Wegner of Chicago in early 1993. Mr. Wegner drove it on the Mille Miglia Storica, then presented the car at the FCA National Meet at Palm Beach, Florida, and the 2nd Annual Monterey Vintage Ferrari Concours at the Quail Lodge.

Giuseppe Calgaro became the next custodian in July 1996, and he entered the car in the Trofeo Alberto Ascari historic race at Monza in September 1997. Four months later, it was purchased by Scott Rosen who presented it at the 1998 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in the class for Scaglietti Coachwork.

Oscar Davis purchased the Ferrar early in 1999, displayed it at the 2000 Cavallino Classic where it won a Silver Award, and was featured in the May 2001 issue of Forza magazine.

Davis sold the Ferrari in March of 2002 to Graham Revell of Hidden Hills, California, and was used in the 2003 and 2004 Mille Miglia Storica, though mechanical issues prevented him from actually running the vintage tour in the first year. Fossil Motorsports of Richard Freshman was commissioned to prepare the car for touring and following significant preparation, the car was shown and toured at various events. It won the Francesco Barraca Award for a Ferrari of exceptional merits at the 2008 Reading Concours d'Elegance and was exhibited at the 2009 Cavallino Classic.

Mr. Davis re-acquired the car around 2017, and prior to this, the car had been submitted to Frank Triarsi's Classic Coach Repair in Elizabeth, New Jersey, for a complete restoration. The work included returning the nose section to the original 1954 configuration of the Scaglietti design and correcting the cosmetic alterations made to the car in prior decades. In 2020, the car was shown at the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance