Ferrari built the F40 to mark its 40th anniversary as a car maker. It was conceived as a road car with as little as possible between the driver and the machine. Pininfarina shaped the body, and Ferrari built it largely from composite materials over a tubular steel frame, the first time a Ferrari production car used composites for most of its body panels. The result was light and stiff, with no carpets, no door trim and no driver aids. As successor to the 288 GTO, it carried Ferrari's turbocharged V8 tradition to its peak.
Power comes from a 2.9-liter twin-turbocharged V8 mounted behind the cabin, driving the rear wheels through a five-speed manual gearbox. Ferrari claimed a top speed above 200 mph. The F40 delivers its performance with very little filtering, which is why it is still regarded as one of the defining driver's cars of its era.
Chassis 92027 is a European-specification, left-hand-drive F40 with wind-up windows, completed at Maranello in January 1992. It was delivered new that March through Sa.Mo.Car, the official Ferrari dealer in Rome, and moved into Scandinavian ownership in 1995. It spent the following three decades in Norway, with periods of care in Sweden and Denmark. Marcel Massini's chassis history traces its ownership from delivery through