Volume 19 Issue 4 - October-December 2012 - Ferrari Club of ...

Garage TourOrangeArticle and Photos ByTex OttoCounty, California is known for being home to its long departed citrus farms and a famoustheme park in Anaheim. For a select group of members who attended this event, the O.C.shall also be remembered for a fabulous collection of sports cars and two shops who stakemajor credit for getting numerous concours winning Ferraris back on the road.Our tour organized by Wally Clark began at Don and Carol Murray’s magnificent collection.It’s home to several significant award winning Ferraris, plus a long row of rare ’50s throughmodern Porsches, with a few other cool cars included in the mix. Don graciously providedpastries and refreshments as members gathered and roamed the collection. Once all attendeeswere accounted for, Don provided some background on most of the cars and what inspiredhim to acquire them. His Ferraris include a 1950 166 Inter Berlinetta, an alloybodied1951 340 America (1 of 2), a multi-concours winning 1963 400 Superamerica, aDaytona coupe, a 275 GTB and a recently restored deep green 246 Dino GTS.Our next stop was Francorchamps of America (FAI) where founder Rod Drew guided ourgroup through his many projects in his Costa Mesa shop. As a full service restoration and repairfacility, their projects on hand were engine work on a 250 SWB and 275 GTB, an engineout servicing of a 355, development of cylinder heads castings for a Lampredi V-12, andFerrari electronic dashboard repair and recalibrating.The last stop on our tour was to nearby Beckman Metalworks. Owner/metal artisan SteveBeckman gave us a tour of his efficient shop where several projects were in varying phasesof completion. On the frame jig table, a Ferrari 212 Vignale Coupe for Don Murray was un-Photo captions from top:Part of the Ferrari row at Don Murray’s collection. Cute Bugeye Sprit and Jaguar XKE infront of a stock Ford Pantera and a 1968 Iso Grifo 7 Litre with the rare “Penthouse” hood.Wally and Don in front of the 1951 340 America and 400 Superamerica.14