Bell Sport & Classic Ferrari 330 LMB
Writing about cars for 25 years has enabled me to get behind the wheel of some decidedly exotic metal, from one of the first Bugatti Chirons ever built to the legendary Bentley Speed Six ‘Old Number One’ that twice took the chequered flag at Le Mans 24 Hours — and was valued at £10m in 1990. But I have never been so apprehensive about driving a car as I was when I was invited to take the controls of the remarkable Ferrari 330 LMB re-creation built by the genius craftsman-engineer Elliot East, of the Hertfordshire-based Prancing Horse specialists Bell Sport & Classic.
East spent three years creating the car as a showcase for the firm’s talents, a labour of love that produced what can only be described as a perfect facsimile of the 330 LMB, only four of which were originally