{"id":65587,"date":"2021-03-23T10:05:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T10:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=65587"},"modified":"2021-04-03T05:12:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T05:12:51","slug":"ferrari-250-gt-berlinetta-prototipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/ferrari-250-gt-berlinetta-prototipo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Prototipo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At first glance at the pictures in our gallery, the thought “Boano” comes to mind. However, the Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta we are showing has never seen the inside of the premises of this small Italian coachbuilding company. And that is exactly what makes it interesting. In the early 1950s, Ferrari came up with their new developed car, called 250, with the number referring to the displacement of a single cylinder. Unlike the models with the larger V12 engines, the new car was aimed directly at European customers. For this reason, early 250s initially got the epithet ‘Europa’, while its model siblings were produced with the suffix ‘America’ or ‘Superamerica’. Of the 53 250 GT Europa ever built, 48 received bodywork by Pinin Farina. Due to the well-balanced designs and a good mutual business climate, Enzo Ferrari concluded a general production contract for standard bodies with Pinin Farina. A first result debuted at the 1956 Geneva Motor Show with the 250 GT Berlinetta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pinin Farina couldn’t built enough cars<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The sister car to our photo car stood in Geneva as a Coup\u00e9 with chassis number 0429GT. While the lower body took up the pontoon shape typical of the time, the roof section was playful with wide, curved B-pillars and a panoramic rear window. However, Pinin Farina already knew that it would not be possible to supply the quantities of bodies required by Ferrari. Therefore, parallel to the production of the first few examples, they were looking for a partner company to outsource production. They finally reached a commercial agreement with Mario Boano and handed over the drawings and production tools for the 250 to him. Boano had created a 250 Cabriolet in parallel for the 1956 Geneva Motor Show and was also well known to Ferrari. Over the next two years, the small coachbuilder produced between 63 and 79 examples of the 250 GT Boano<\/a><\/strong>, depending on the source. In 1957 Mario Boano moved to Fiat Centro Stile and handed over his company to his son-in-law Ezio Ellena. Under his management, another 49 cars followed. Both, Boano and Ellena, only slightly changed the Pinin Farina design. In the meantime, the production facilities at Pinin Farina were enlarged and, from 1958, production of the 250 GT was taken over there again.<\/p>\n\n\n

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