Ferrari 512M #12 - Posey / Adamowicz - NART - 3rd LM 1971

Sam Posey wrote a short article for Road & Track back in 2015 that sums up his experience with the 512M at the 1971 Le Mans race perfectly:

 "My favorite car? The Ferrari 512M that I drove for Luigi Chinetti's North American Racing Team in 1971. The year before, we had run a 512S, finishing fourth at Le Mans. The M was a refinement of the S, and word filtered back to us that it was a lot faster, really, a whole new car. One question that arose during planning for the 1971 season was whether i would fit in the new car. I was six foot one, they'd have to redesign the pedal area, which included the front bulkhead. Or NART would have to hire a shorter driver. I fit, barely. The M was tighter than the cramp-inducing S, but I was already in love with the car and determined to drive it no matter what. The car was so perfectly balanced and the steering so precise that as I swept through the left-to-right  combination on the track, coming closer to the Porsche's each lap, I felt the exhilaration of total control in a place where a mistake would be fatal. On the Mulsanne straight, as the speed began to level off around 200 mph, trees blurred into walls of green, the engine note was muted, the sun shown in through the big windshield. It was warm in there, and calm. Three miles flat out, a world all its own. I looked at the prancing horse medallion in the center of the wheel and I thought with some pride that here I was, driving a Ferrari at Le Mans. You can only truly know a car when you've driven it at its limit, and in the 512M, the forces of acceleration, cornering and braking were all equal, yet in combination, they elevated the car to a different realm".

Acme is proud to bring you this amazing replica of the car that brought Posey so much joy.