'The Daytona has been called the last great front-engined supercar.

For one who has thought about it, it is not difficult to see why; for one who has driven it, it is very easy to see why...

A supercar must prove its superiority on ordinary roads; the Daytona did.' - L J K Setright, Supercar Classics, Autumn 1983.

The ultimate expression of Ferrari's fabulous line of V12 front-engined sports cars, the 365GTB/4 debuted at the Paris Salon in 1968, soon gaining the unofficial name 'Daytona' in honour of the sweeping 1, 2, 3 finish by the Ferrari 330P4 sports prototype at that circuit in 1967.

Pininfarina's Leonardo Fioravanti, later the famed carrozzeria's director of research and development, was responsible for the influential shark-nosed styling, creating a package that restated the traditional 'long bonnet, small cabin, short tail' look in a manner suggesting muscular horsepower while retaining all the elegance associated with the Italian coachbuilder's work for Maranello.

An unu...