Watch the rarest Ferrari in the world get washed and detailed

Ammo NYC founder Larry Kosilla is a car-detailing evangelist, producing YouTube movies to indicate the ins and outs of detailing. Shot earlier in 2021, this video exhibits the one-off Glickenhaus Ferrari P4/5 getting some TLC in Kosilla’s store.

As a refresher, the P4/5 was commissioned by rich automotive fanatic Jim Glickenhaus and constructed by Pininfarina in 2006. The customized bodywork was impressed by the Ferrari 330 P4 race vehicles of the Nineteen Sixties, however beneath is the chassis, powertrain, and different {hardware} from a Ferrari Enzo.

Glickenhaus later adopted up the P4/5 street automotive with a Competitizione observe model. Based mostly on a then-contemporary Ferrari F430 GT2 race automotive, it lapped the Nürburgring Nordschliefe in 6:51 in 2012, throughout a qualifying session for the Nürburgring 24-hour race. He then bought the 1970 Ferrari 512S Modulo idea from Pininfarina and had it rebuilt right into a drivable automotive.

The cool factor about this mission is that it’s a necessity as a result of Glickenhaus drives his one-off automotive. The automotive comes into the store with bug splatters and street grime, plus scratches and swirls within the paint, so the method begins with a easy wash with cleaning soap, foam cleaning soap, and water. That is adopted with one other wash of the paint utilizing brushes to get into the tight areas. The within of the automotive is subsequent, a lot of it completed with a foam as a substitute of water. Similar for the engine.

Subsequent, Kosilla and his two companions transfer to the inside. The inside course of contains lather, steam, microfiber towels, and a towel with steam for the artificial suede. Lather and inside brushes be sure that the steering wheel buttons do not get moist.

Paint appropriate comes subsequent. This includes sprucing, which is finished in another way by every detailer. All of them use sprucing compounds, sprucing discs, and wool utilized with a buffing wheel. That is adopted by sprucing, which includes bigger and smaller discs, and even a towel in hand to get into the small areas. Even the inside and inside physique are polished, which incorporates numerous carbon fiber. The sprucing course of creates numerous mud, so the automotive will get one other wash.

The ultimate step is ceramic paint safety to guard the end and make future cleansing simpler. Kosilla makes use of the Ammo merchandise his firm makes, however a number of corporations supply the assorted merchandise used right here.

The P4/5 street automotive with a Competitizione observe model had been the beginning of Glickenhaus’ shift from automotive collector to full-bore automotive builder. He subsequently arrange Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus (SCG) as a race group and low-volume producer of sports activities vehicles and the Boot off-roader.

SCG at present competes within the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) Le Mans Hypercar (LMH) class with its 007. Glickenhaus has additionally proven curiosity in gas cells, directing his group to design hydrogen supercar and pickup-truck ideas.

It is unclear if these fuel-cell automobiles will attain manufacturing, or how SCG will fare within the WEC because it takes on the a lot bigger Toyota manufacturing unit group.

For now, watch the total video to see how professionals element a one-of-one supercar.