A modern Daytona, hand-built once and never again

Dutch coachbuilder Niels van Roij is building a modern take on the legendary 1970s Ferrari Daytona Shooting Brake. Hand-formed aluminium body, Kamm tail, butterfly side windows. Debut at the RAC Concours on 8 July.

Dutch coachbuilder Niels van Roij has taken on a project that can hardly be called ordinary tuning. His team is building the Daytona Shooting Brake Hommage — a contemporary interpretation of the only Ferrari Daytona Shooting Brake from the 1970s.

The base will be a donor Ferrari with a front-mounted V12, but the body will be reworked completely. Panels will be hand-formed in aluminium, and the car itself will receive an elongated rear, a sharply raked Kamm tail and a noticeably reshaped roofline. Another striking detail — the butterfly-style rear side windows. Only the first renderings have been released so far, but it is already clear that this is not an attempt to copy the old Daytona to the letter.

Van Roij said: “Translating the legendary 1970s shooting brake into a contemporary design language was a complex process. Our goal has always been to celebrate the original without being creatively limited by it.”

The interior is also promised to be seriously reworked, although few details have surfaced. The finished car will be shown on 8 July at the RAC Concours. After that, the car will go straight to its private owner — the project is created as a single example and will not be repeated.

Van Roij himself described the work almost as a personal privilege: “Designing the Daytona Shooting Brake Hommage was both an honour and a rare opportunity. There is a special sense of occasion in creating something that will never happen again.”

Cars like this are not bought for the practicality of a shooting brake, nor for lap times. The value lies elsewhere: a V12, a hand-built body, a nod to one of the rarest Ferraris ever, and the chance to own a car that will not have a twin even at the most exclusive concours d’elegance.