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RE: 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO sells for a world record auction price of $38.1 million!

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FenderLover

In Reply to: RE: 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO sells for a world record auction price of $38.1 million! posted by LWR on July 27, 2015 at 06:07:56

Not surprised, as many feel this is Ferrari's best looking road/race car. I like the 275GTB, myself (1965 in photo).
As for the 250GTO, what is there something like 50 known to be still running?
Wonder why these is a white triangle pointing to fuel rail?

Edits: 07/27/15

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RE: "like 50 known to be still running?" - b.l.zeebub 07:17:15 07/27/15 (3)
That would be interesting as they only made 39 but not beyond the realm of possibility.

There have been court cases about this before: Someone used the engine of a crashed car to rebuild while someone else used the chassis of the same wreck. Both claimeing that theirs was the
'original' car.

Personally I find the best looking road/race car ever made is the Aston Martin DB4GT Zagato.
- RE: "like 50 known to be still running?" - painter27 17:37:10 07/27/15 (0)
  Ya know, there are more 67, 427, 435hp vets registered than were ever built at the factory.
- Interesting - I'd never thought about them multiplying! - JDK 16:36:07 07/27/15 (0)
  In the 1980s a friend got involved the the restoration of a D type Jaguar. It had been severely crashed twice in it's life - killing it's original owner in the first one.
  The car was rediscovered in Hong Kong when a Jag buff was searching around the old GP track. He found an old locally made sports car with what appeared to be a D type engine in it. He wrote down the engine numbers and photographed it and came back to Sydney and did the research. It was the engine from a known D type that crashed in the British GP, killing it's owner/driver, was purchased as a wreck and restored and raced in the Hong Kong GP where it was crashed again and disappeared. He went back to Hong Kong and tracked down the builder of the car he saw, and he found the remains of the mangled D type under a house not far from the old track.
  He bought the lot and shipped it back to Sydney where the 5 year restoration took place. The race car was stripped and the original D type engine, transmission and full suspension was recovered. The D type chassis was a write-off. He hired a retired airframe fitter to measure up an unrestored D type and make an almost complete new chassis and skin. It was certified as a genuine D type with original engine number and chassis number even though the chassis and body was totally remanufactured from scratch.
  It was an amazing car. Not an extra D type though. But definitely brought back from the dead!
  
  Cheers,
  John K
- RE: "like 50 known to be still running?" - FenderLover 09:02:06 07/27/15 (0)
  Didn't know the correct number. 39 made from 1962-64.
  
  Thanks!

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