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[David Birchall]

Not quite - 250GT/GTOs won every year between 1956 and 1964. Here are the winners according to Wiki:

http://en.wikipedia....ance_Automobile

My only excuse is that at 4.am I took Pourret at his word! The 250 GTs did win every TdF they entered in period-perhaps that is what he meant.

In any event, I want one. The DB2 is a stand in for a 250 SWB-and not a bad one...

[David Birchall]

Here is a photo I stole from Pourret's book of 3527GT after collision with the milk truck-there is no bodywork fwd of the windshield-the engine cover is a sheet of aluminium. Reading Pourret it seems they were disqualified, after leading for most of the event, because there were no longer any front lights. Sorry about the small size of the photo-if anybody can enlarge it please go ahead:


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[Jean L]

It is a copy of the Burago model !

[rl1856]

I attended the Amelia Island Concours held in March of this year. Featured cars were the Ferrari GTO and Shelby Cobra, with each celebrating their respective 50th anniversaries. The news of the day was that a GTO had sold for $30mm US a month before the event. With that in mind it was truly a visceral experience to be able to get within inches of 12 of these legendary cars.

http://s1123.photobu.....r/Amelia GTO/

Enjoy the pictures !

Best,

Ross

[Alan Cox]

Am i the only TNF-er who reads newspapers?
Check out this link:
http://www.dailymail...o=feeds-newsxml
£23 million for the Moss car .....

A bit slow in picking this up: From the Mail Online 6th June, recording the new owner. Interesting to note that it reports that three GTOs have been sold in the past few months.

THE WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE CAR
Classic car collector, Craig McCaw, snapped up race driver Sir Stirling Moss' former Ferrari for a record $35 million last month - making it the world's most expensive car.
McCaw bought the car from Dutch-born businessman Eric Heerema, owner of the Nyetimber vineyard in Sussex, southern England, according to Bloomberg.
John Collins, of UK-based specialist Ferrari dealer Talacrest, said he has sold the apple-green 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO twice before, and that it's value had sky-rocketed.
'In the mid-90s it was in my showroom for three months before I sold it for £4 million ($6.18 million),' Collins said of the vehicle, which was first built for the legend race driver.
The 250 GTO is regarded by collectors as the most desirable of all classic Ferraris, taking first place on Motor Trend Classic magazine's 2010 list of the 'Greatest Ferraris of all time'.
The model was created in 1962 to compete at the Le Mans 24- Hour and other Grand-Touring car races.
McCaw's new purchase was made by the Ferrari factory in 1962 for the UK racer Moss and the driver's name is scrawled on the back of the right-hand driver’s seat.
The car was painted in the pale-green of Moss’ UDT- Laystall race team.
Unfortunately, Moss never got to race the car. On April 23, 1962, he suffered a career-ending crash at the Goodwood circuit in Sussex, England before taking the wheel of his new Ferrari.
The car was raced by fellow UK driver Innes Ireland at the 1962 Le Mans, where it retired. Before May's sale, the record for the world's most expensive car had been held by a 1936 Type 57SC Bugatti Atlantic. It was bought by the California-based collector Peter Mullin in 2010 for between $30 million and $34 million.
In January, a 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO numbered 5095 was sold by UK-based businessman Jon Hunt for about $32 million, according to Bloomberg.
Collins said classic Ferraris were now extremely valuable investments.
'I’ve never seen anything like it. (The market) has gone crazy,' he said. 'If someone wanted to sell their 250 GTO, I could find a buyer in 30 seconds.'
The strongest market at the moment is for Ferraris built in the 1950s and 1960s - with the 250 GTO the car investors are clamouring to buy. Just 39 Ferrari 250 GTOs were made between 1962 and 1964 with Enzo Ferrari selling them for $9,300.
Over the past eight weeks, three Ferrari 250 GTOs totalling just under $90 million have sold as well as two Ferrari 250 California Spyders and a short wheelbase 250 Berlinetta.