This was one of two mid-engined racing Ferraris NART ran in the Sixties. Both caught fire. But this one wasn't burnt too bad so in the late '60s Coco, the son of Luigi Chinetti, found a high rolling fashion illustrator Bob Peak to bankroll making an all new street car body for it designed by Peak but built by Michelotti with gullwing doors. The silver car graced the cover of Car & Driver. I fancied looking for it once but was too cheap to pay for display ads. At any rated, flash forward 30 years or thereabouts and Chinetti sends both cars plus another Ferrari to Italy for rebodying whereupon Ferrari, ungrateful wretches (for Chinetti establishing their name in the colonies back in the 50s) sued them for making replicas, whereupon Chinetti countersued and won. My question is: when Chinetti Jr. and Peak displayed the gullwing car at the NY Auto show was it merely to draw in customrs to order custom bodywork on Ferraris or was the actual car priced at the time (I am predicting if it was, it would have been south of $100,000 USD). i have seen the brochure for the car advertised on eBay but there's no price for the silver gullwinged show car.
Anybody remember an ad from the NY auto show period for the silver car with a price attached? This is all of course so I can kick myself for not making an offer.
I think with the correct race car body on the car, it has to be worth, oh, $10 million dollars (a rarer car than a 250GTO but not quite as street drivable...)
