{"id":28077,"date":"2018-06-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/ferrari-250-gto-series-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-02T17:39:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T17:39:15","slug":"ferrari-250-gto-series-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/ferrari-250-gto-series-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari 250 GTO Series 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Ferrari 250 GTO is a worldwide automotive legend. Recently a particularly well-preserved car with an excellent history changed hands privately (we reported). Now RM Sotheby’s announced another example from this small series for the upcoming auto auction during Monterey Car Week in August. Ferrari only built 39 GTOs from 1962 to 1964, of which three received a larger V12 engine and therefore in official usage run as 330 GTO. Of the remaining 36 cars 33 emerged as Series 1 with the familiar body shape with long nose and beautifully curved passenger cabin with fluent expiring roofline. Subsequently the Italians developed a Series 2 with a modified body style, whose roof ends just behind the passengers and shows a vertical, recessed rear window. Below is classic notchback. In this form three cars were produced ex works. In addition Scaglietti retrofitted four Series 1 cars with new bodyworks.

Due to the low production number and the successes in motorsports achieved with these vehicles (more than 300 class and overall victories), where the GTO was probably the last streetlegal race car, with which you could drive to Le Mans and take the overall victory there, it is now the ‘holy grail’ among wealthy Ferrari fans and must necessarily occur in their collection at least once in their lifes. Thus, to a certain extent, the prices reached in the meantime have been explained, to which certainly the Ferrari myth also contributes. RM Sotheby’s expects a price of about 45 million US$ for this vehicle. If this sum is reached, this would be a new world record for the world’s expensive publicly auctioned car.<\/p>\n\n\n

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