I went to a very big Motor Museum in Sinsheim, Germany in 2000. As I was a great Type 4 (the car!) fan at the time, I asked the museum guide if they had any 411 or 412 cars on the floor. Although very friendly and helpful, his English was very bad and my German even worse. At the end I wrote '412?' for him on a piece of paper. His eyes lit up, and very excited he took me to the car pictured above - a Ferrari 412. Doh...
The Ferrari 400 and Ferrari 412 are front-engined 2+2 coupé cars from Italian manufacturer Ferrari and were available with the 5-speed all synchromesh or an optional 3-speed automatic transmission unit from General Motors. Their design was derived from the almost identical looking 365 GT4 2+2 version of the famous Daytona. Production began in 1976, when Ferrari revealed its first car fitted with an automatic transmission - the 400 - at the Paris Motorshow of 1976. With the improved 412 introduced in 1985 it was phased out in 1989. Today, its sleek, Pininfarina-designed lines and relatively limited production numbers give it potential as a future classic.