These strains! That grill! The gills, profile, dashboard!
The design by Pininfarina is probably probably the most stunning Ferrari ever made. If I had been a person of limitless means, I’d fill my storage with each variation of the 250 Enzo ever produced (See this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and this).
2, 3, 4, 12: 2 valves per cylinder, 3 Weber carburetors, mated to a 4-speed handbook transmission, a V-12 engine. Certain, 240HP pales in comparison with what you should buy immediately, however it’s in a 2,646 pound spyder.
Sotheby’s described the 250GT in 2016:
“If there are two phrases within the Ferrari vocabulary that get the blood flowing in any tifosi, absolutely they’re “California Spider.” Thought of by many to be probably the most stunning automotive to return out of Maranello, the California Spider had the efficiency credentials to again up its beautiful presence. To the person who was searching for a automotive that might be pushed leisurely with the highest down on Saturday, taken to the observe and raced exhausting on Sunday, and with the requisite Italian fashion and aptitude solely a Ferrari might ship, there was merely no different possibility.”
Solely 50 Spyders had been made on a protracted wheel-base (LWB), and are exceedingly worthwhile. A 1959 Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider aluminum physique that completed fifth place on the 1959 Le Mans — the race that was received by Carroll Shelby in a Ford GT — was bought at a 2021 Sotheby’s public sale in New York for $18 million.
The little runabout beneath is anticipated to fetch $Sept. 11 million at RM Sotheby’s upcoming Amelia Island sale on March 4th.
Supply: Traditional Driver
