Swallow Doretti, Chassis No.1216 was first registered in Northern Ireland as TZ 1887 on 11th November 1954.
The next report of the vehicle comes from Simon Seath who owned it from 1975 to 1977
and used it as his everyday car, when he was a student at flying school in England.
Simon remembers, "that the car's passenger door catch was a bit suspect and I had to hold onto the girlfriend if we went round right hand corners (Oh the good old days)! It was missing the radiator grill and bumpers and had a replacement engine. It went well and I had a tonneau cover made and drove it around in the winter without the hood up."
Chassis No1216 was exported from Southampton, England on 20th Jan 1977 to Newark, NJ. USA.
Shortly after the car's arrival in the USA it was bought by Kevin McLemore of Ambler, Pennsylvania,
then a student at Syracuse University.
Kevin says, "I bought it from a guy who had purchased a bunch of Ferraris from Europe. He thought it was an Italian car, too. When he discovered it wasn't, he put it in the NY Times for sale at $500. I was in school at Syracuse University and saw the ad when I was reading the papers. I drove down to NJ and bought it. He kept all those lovely Ferraris in chicken coops - I kid you not - and there were dozens of the cars there - I'd never seen so many Ferraris in one place ever before - or since. The Doretti was largely complete, but needed tons of work - it was pretty badly rusted underneath - but it still drove. I drove it home, in fact, even with a dodgy generator. But because I could not locate a replacement front grille and the work to make one would have been horrendously expensive for me, a college kid, I decided to enjoy it for a short while, then sell it on." Kevin sold No.1216 circa 1978-1980.
In March 2025, Bryan Fry reported that Chassis No.2016 had been been bought by Robin Maxwell, then shipped to Bryan's grand-parents farm in Pennsylvania and stored in a barn ever since its purchase from Kevin McLemore.
...Thanks to Simon Seath, Kevin McLemore and Bryan Fry for their information.