Do you remember that weird slice of Ferrari concept car, the one and only 1970 Ferrari 512 S Modulo? Well, it was bought by a rich guy, made to run, and the exhaust caught the tail on fire

if this looks familiar, then you too probably grew up in the 80s, with big car posters on your bedroom wall.

The Ferrari 512 S Modulo was a one-off concept supercar created for the 1970 Geneva Motor Show, where it squared off with the Lancia Stratos HF Zero for title of the ultimate wedge.

Well, the competition, the one-off concept Lancia Stratos HF Zero

 stole the show at the Concorso d'Eleganza at Villa d'Este last year, and if there's one thing megawealthy car freaks can't stand, it's a challenge, so son of Wall street money manager, former 1980s movie director and producer, James Glickenhouse decided he could easily be the most impressive thing to show at the 2019 Concorso d'Eleganza at Villa d'Este if he got the Modulo running. Who wouldn't invite him to their party? 

The problem with concept cars though, is that they haven't had much research and development time to work out the problems that mass production cars get, which prevents the occasional exhaust tips from catching the tail on fire as no one realized that you can't mount high temp exhaust to plastic body parts on a car you're going to drive.

When it was nothing more than a museum piece roller that was hand pushed to and from display, no one bothered to make the car safe.

It's a different world, when on the road.



https://www.thedrive.com/news/28239/gaze-at-the-radically-designed-1970-ferrari-512-s-modulo-as-it-glides-around-italy
https://www.thedrive.com/news/28761/one-off-ferrari-modulo-concept-owned-by-james-glickenhaus-catches-fire-due-to-faulty-muffler
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15108415/what-id-do-differently-james-glickenhaus-interview/
https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2006/11/when-ferrari-had-schiziod-episode.html