How ‘Ferrari’ Sourced $70 Million Vintage Cars to Create Authentic Racing Sequences

variety.com:

Todd Gilchrist editor Michael Mann’s 12th film, “Ferrari” was always meant to do more than catalog the achievements of a legendary racing team and its automotive parent.

Even so, its story climaxes with a pivotal race in the brand’s history — the 1957 Mille Miglia — that required a tremendous amount of work, and more than a little luck to recreate.

The fact that the sporting event took place more than 60 years ago meant that some vehicles would just be very hard to source, while others were impossible.

But picture vehicle supervisor Danny Triphook says that as the production reached out to members of a worldwide network of auto collectors who they hoped would loan their vehicles to use in the sequence, his collaborators’ confidence was buoyed after unexpectedly obtaining access to car they had initially lumped in the latter category. “We thought we were not going to be able to find the car that won the Mille Miglia, the one driven by Piero Taruffi,” says Triphook. “But what happened is that whilst talking to one of the owners, he said, ‘What do you think about having the actual winning car of the film on the film?