British race car driver Gordon Spice claims he’s a businessman first and a race car driver second, but his podium finishes at Le Mans may suggest otherwise. In his competition days, Spice had a knack not just for racing, but for car building. By the early 1980s, Spice’s factory-backed racing career wrapped up after Ford pulled the plug on its Capri Group C racers. It was the perfect time for Spice to launch his own career. As he told Motorsport magazine in late 2017, “I had all the kit you needed to run a team, courtesy of Ford, but no cars.”

Spice and Ray Bellum went in together and created Spice Engineering with the intent of building Group C chassis. The cars did well in the World Sports Car Championship and in IMSA racing in North America.

Spice Engineering was a strong force into the early 1990s when the Ferrari-powered SE 92C GTP offered here was completed. It was not a Group C car, but was instead intended for use in IMSA GTP and GTP Lights Championship in the U.S. That innovative series wrapped up in late 1993 and gave way to the World Sports Car Championship. At that time, the car was campaigned by L’Guja Racing’s Ranieri Randaccio.

Unlike most Spice Engineering racers, this SE 92C speaks with a hearty Italian accent from its large exhaust pipes. A Ferrari 355-based V-8 built by Amoroli puts out around 475 hp. The car’s early competition miles came at the hands of Randaccio, who reportedly was involved in an accident at Sebring in 1996. The Ferrari-powered Spice race car was rebuilt and has not been raced ever since. In 2006, its owner at the time commissioned Autoworks Unlimited in Harwinton, Connecticut, to complete a restoration. Completing such a project on a car that was hand-built on the other side of the Atlantic a decade and a half earlier was no easy task, but the Spice Ferrari shows well today as it wears Rosso Barchetta livery inspired by Ferrari’s earliest racing efforts.

The Spice Ferrari has been exercised regularly at Ferrari club events over the last decade, including some light track-day use. It features a new fuel cell, a new clutch, and will be delivered with an extra set of BBS racing wheels.

With its British–Italian heritage, the Spice Ferrari SE 92C offers a unique combination of attributes, including a chassis created by a seasoned racer and the distinctive power output of the Ferrari 355 V-8 engine. Ready to be enjoyed, it would be the talk of the paddock at any gathering of Ferraris on the track.