- Historic Canna di Fucile

- Terra Bruciata Hides

- Pre-OPF example

- Ferrari warranty until May 2027

- Full Paint Protection Film

- 2 former keepers

- Extensive interior and exterior carbon fibre

- Quicksilver valved exhaust (original system supplied)

- MetaTrak S5 tracker with deadlock

- Suspension Lifter

- Passenger display and Apple CarPlay

- TDF Wheels

Gardone Val Trompia, 1526. In a valley north of Brescia, a gunsmith named Bartolomeo Beretta records the sale of 185 arquebus barrels to the Arsenal of Venice. Five centuries on, his family is still making barrels in the same valley.

Brescia, at the valley’s mouth, would later lend its streets to another Italian obsession. For three decades the Mille Miglia began and ended there, and Ferrari won it eight times.

The Italians have a word for the colour of a well-kept barrel: canna di fucile. It is not quite grey and not quite black, with the faint blue of tempered steel when the light catches it. Ferrari keeps it in its archive of historical colours; the first owner of this car brought it out again.

Against the gunmetal, the exterior carbon fibre reads as a deeper shade of the same idea. It runs from the front spoiler and bumper mouth, along the sill kicks and underdoor covers, to the rear side bumpers, boot trim and diffuser; the outer mirrors are carbon too, as are the hub caps of the 20-inch forged diamond racing wheels. Gloss black callipers keep colour off the wheels entirely, leaving the Scuderia Ferrari shields on the wings to provide it. Titanium exhaust pipes, privacy rear windows and adaptive headlights with SBL function complete the picture.

At the rear, set into the vertical face of the tail, runs a long and narrow tricolore. It appears on no options list; it was commissioned as special equipment.

If the outside is the barrel, the inside is the stock.

Terra Bruciata, burnt earth, is a deep and oiled brown of the kind found on a walnut stock that has been well cared for, and against the steel of the exterior it is difficult to believe the pairing was arrived at by accident. It dresses the Daytona-style seats, the lower dashboard and the centre trim of the door panels, while the seats themselves carry perforated inserts in Nero. The headliner and parcel shelf are trimmed in the same black leather, the stitching follows in Nero, and a Cavallino is stitched into each headrest in matching thread.

Carbon fibre returns within, across the driver zone with its LED display, the upper centre console, the central bridge, the dashboard inserts, the inner door handles and the rear bench trim. The air-vent grips are finished in black. On the steering wheel, a tricolour livery marks the upper and lower rim, answering the flag at the tail, and Nero mats with the Ferrari logo complete the cabin.

The equipment is considered rather than indulgent: passenger display, Apple CarPlay, the high-power hi-fi system, front and rear parking cameras, full electric seats and the suspension lifter, which earns its keep on every English speed bump. Security comes from the Navtrak subscription and a MetaTrak S5 tracker with deadlock.

Built in 2019, the car predates the particulate filter fitted to later 812s, and its V12 speaks without one. A Quicksilver valved exhaust has since been fitted, giving the engine a wider register: composed at a cruise, and rather less so when invited. The original system accompanies the car.

Its provenance is as complete as its specification. Full paint protection film has preserved the gunmetal. The car carries a full recorded service history under its seven-year service plan, with its most recent visit to H.R. Owen on 30 April 2026 at 15,464 miles, and Ferrari warranty remains in place until May 2027.

Steel and walnut, then. The oldest pairing in Italian craftsmanship, and still the finest.

The name looks back to Geneva in 1964 and the 500 Superfast, a Pininfarina-bodied grand tourer with a five-litre V12. Only 37 were built, for a clientele that included the Shah of Iran and Peter Sellers. Its descendant arrived at Geneva in March 2017 with a name that worked as arithmetic as much as homage: 800 cavalli, twelve cylinders. Unlike the F12berlinetta before it, which was shaped in collaboration with Pininfarina, the 812 was drawn entirely in-house at the Ferrari Styling Centre under Flavio Manzoni. Its form owes as much to the wind tunnel as to the pen, with active flaps beneath the car and air channelled through the bodywork rather than over it.

Beneath the bonnet, roughly three-quarters of the 6.5-litre V12's components were new. It was the first Ferrari road car to run 350-bar direct injection, it borrowed variable-geometry intake tracts from Formula 1, and it revved to 8,900rpm. Less heralded, the 812 was also the first Ferrari to adopt electric power steering, a decision that unsettled purists until they drove it. Paired with the second generation of Ferrari's Virtual Short Wheelbase rear-steer system, it made a front-engined car of 789bhp feel considerably smaller than it was.

ACPL – Apple CarPlay

AFS2 – Adaptive headlights with SBL function

BVEN – Black air vent grips on dashboard

CALB – Glossy black brake callipers

CEAI – Front bumper mouth in carbon fibre

CELB – Rear side bumpers in carbon fibre

CERB – Carbon fibre rear boot trim

CEXD – Rear diffuser in carbon fibre

CEXS – Carbon fibre underdoor cover

CEXW – Carbon outer mirrors

CIDH – Carbon fibre inner door handle

CIDL – Carbon fibre driver zone + LEDs

CILR – Carbon fibre central bridge

CIRZ – Carbon fibre rear bench trims

CISK – Exterior sill kick in carbon

CITZ – Carbon fibre upper centre console trim

CUPC – Carbon fibre hub caps

DAYT – Daytona style seats

DATR – Dash inserts in carbon fibre

DSH7 – Leather lower dashboard - Terra Bruciata

ELEV – Suspension lifter

EMPH – Cavallino stitched on headrest - Nero 4000

EXAT – Titanium exhaust pipes

FCWS – Carbon fibre front spoiler

FLMA – Additional coloured mats with logo

HELE – High Emotion Low Emission

LOGO – 'Scuderia Ferrari' shields

LTDP – Leather door panel central trim - Terra Bruciata

NVT1 – NavTrak anti-theft system subscription

PAC3 – Front and rear parking cameras

PDIS – Passenger display

PNTH – Ferrari historical colours - Canna di Fucile

PRG1 – Privacy rear windows

RMDR – 20-inch forged diamond racing wheels

RSFE – Full electric seats

RUF1 – Leather headliner - Nero 8500

SHF3 – Leather parcel shelf - Nero 8500

SNDB – High power Hi-Fi system

SPEC – Special equipment

STC2 – Coloured special stitching O.R. - Nero 4000

STP1 – Leather perforated inserts - Nero 8500

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