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Man I wish I'd of known it was up for auction! I would have paid $14.5 mil for it easy.
There is a fella here in the SF Bay Area, that I know, with a 1957 Ferrari TR250 #754. He bought it in like 1959, as a no longer competitive race car on the world stage.....to run SCCA events. It had previously raced at Lemans etc. I think he paid about $10 grand for it, which was a lot of money for a used race car you couldn't drive on the streets, back in 1959. He has campaigned it first in SCCA events and now in Historic races on the West coast ever since. I've watched him at both Laguna Seca and at Sears Point. He is a retired physicist, and still drives the car like when he bought it. He was telling me most of the guys at the historic races all know each other & their cars capabilities, and only newbies sometimes make it interesting. At one historic race there were 3 of the TR250's that had been on the grid at LeMans together, back in the day, reunited for the first time since. Interesting fella, I'm sure this auction result made him smile!
Arthur,
That gives me goosebumps just reading about it.
That gives me goosebumps just reading about it.
To me, this was the "Ferrari"....It was the first one I ever saw....Love/Hate, loved car, hated price....But then I was only 16....
Oh well, they upgraded the upholstery in this one by several orders of magnitude.....Still love the car....Still hate the price....Still want one...
Oh well, they upgraded the upholstery in this one by several orders of magnitude.....Still love the car....Still hate the price....Still want one...
That is one sweet car. Whoever bought that has way too much $$$$.
Mickey, I'll have to give you this one. It's dead sexy.
Apparently, Ferrari had style at some early point in its history.
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Apparently, Ferrari had style at some early point in its history.
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You guys ever see the famous 'red barchetta'? it's a 50's ferrari I think called a 166 of something. very cool.
This is a awsome car R.M. had it on display at Amelia Island I had the pleasure of seeing it in person a real cool ride real crude fit and finish typical old Ferrari race car real cool. BIG MONEY!!
What's the flippy-up, gas-tank door-looking thing in the top of the headrest for?
There are a lot of design ideas in that car that should have been timeless, but I'm going to guess the wind-tunnel killed them. I like the windshield, the mirror on the dash, the curves of the fenders, the leading-edge red paint on the nose ...
I guess maybe I just never saw an old Ferrari in black before. Beautiful.
(Nobody tell Mickey. I'll show up to his restaurant one of these days for a nice platter of my own hat, and he'll damn sure make me eat it.)
There are a lot of design ideas in that car that should have been timeless, but I'm going to guess the wind-tunnel killed them. I like the windshield, the mirror on the dash, the curves of the fenders, the leading-edge red paint on the nose ...
I guess maybe I just never saw an old Ferrari in black before. Beautiful.
(Nobody tell Mickey. I'll show up to his restaurant one of these days for a nice platter of my own hat, and he'll damn sure make me eat it.)
The flap behind the headrest I think is for acess to the feul tank filler
Here's pics of a '50 Ferrari Barchetta that every so often rolls into the Cars & Coffee meet here in my neighborhood...
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The Rouge River Ford Museum had one of the Ferraris (subject of post) straight from the track, complete with haybale marks, etc.....I think it's still there.....