McLaren may know how to build the occasional ugly race car, but it takes a Scuderia Ferrari in the doldrums to turn the WTF-meter to 11. This is Mauro Forghieri’s Ferrari 312 B3 from late 1972, better known as the Spazzaneve (snowplow). It was so ugly it never raced.

Forghieri’s ugly duckling of a Grand Prix was actually a very advanced concept. Built after yet another disappointing season, when Ferrari finished a distant fourth in the championship, the Spazzaneve picked up some ideas from Colin Chapman and Maurice Philippe’s radical, wedge-shaped Lotus 72.

All photos by Pietro Zoccola