1963 Ferrari GTO sells for £52,000,000

[Bizzarini]

I know this is the gutter press but it is reported everywhere

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/968045/F...

[Baldchap]

But I read that people who buy classic cars are peasants who can't afford supercars...

[Exige77]

It won the tour of Francine

Worth every penny

[FourWheelDrift]

I had a tour of Francine once, I must have lost. She slapped me.

[J4CKO]

That is a rather nice looking car, a 944 based replica would do, makes an E type look a bit plain.

[a8hex]

Each to their own I suppose.
My mother taught me that if you can't say anything nice not to say anything so I shan't give my opinion of what it looks like.

[Pericoloso]

Most people when they hear "Tour de France" [ine] they think of cycling ,so unlikely that the road race

is one of the most famous in the world.

I offered $69M ,just not quite enough....

[trickywoo]

I wonder what lap time it would do round the IOM TT course.

[anonymous-user]

trickywoo said:

I wonder what lap time it would do round the IOM TT course.

According to other threads on here: faster than a motorbike but slower than a Porsche.

[iSore]

"The 250 GTO - sometimes described as the Picasso of the car world - is a sought after classic car".

Like the one Ronnie Pickering has? You wot m8?

I'm guessing it's time for Ferrari to dust off a few unused VIN's and knock a few more out.

[coppice]

I remember parking next to Nick Mason's car - reg no 250 GTO - at Silverstone in the 80s. Gorgeous thing , but just an old Ferrari to most of the people who walked past it with hardly a glance . They belong on the track, but seeing one now is very rare given their crazy value as objets d'arts for obscenely rich people .

[Skyedriver]

iSore said:

Like the one Ronnie Pickering has? :

Who?

(Sorry just had to ...)

[rossb]

coppice said:

They belong on the track, but seeing one now is very rare given their crazy value as objets d'arts for obscenely rich people .

Guy who bought it is self made guy whose company WeatherTech makes car mats - lots of them....and a serious enthusiast who uses his car on track - good for him - as it is for us impecunious enthusiasts who will probably get a chance to see the car on track - opposed to being parked up as a soulless asset parked up in a bonded warehouse

[iSore]

coppice said:

I remember parking next to Nick Mason's car - reg no 250 GTO - at Silverstone in the 80s. Gorgeous thing , but just an old Ferrari to most of the people who walked past it with hardly a glance . They belong on the track, but seeing one now is very rare given their crazy value as objets d'arts for obscenely rich people .

You do wonder how much that particular car is worth. More than this one?

[thegreenhell]

iSore said:

You do wonder how much that particular car is worth. More than this one?

Isn't Mason's car also a Tour de France winner? Also, red Ferraris are always worth more than silver ones...

[av185]

wormus said:

trickywoo said:

I wonder what lap time it would do round the IOM TT course.

According to other threads on here: faster than a motorbike but slower than a Porsche.

Although currently slightly faster than the unfortunate Porsche GT3 RS which ended up in a field, engine out on its roof.

Main thing though as expected the Porsche was ahead of the bikers at the time so quite clearly cars are faster than bikes.

[TooMany2cvs]

All this "Most beautiful car in the world" hype is complete cobblers. It's not even the most beautiful Ferrari 250 - by a long chalk. I'm not particularly convinced it's even in the top dozen 250 variants...

[coppice]

That accolade , in my house anyway, goes to the Miura. But the 250 GTO, I think, is undeniably a lovely thing , and , with the Lusso and SWB ,must be in the top three of 250s for me . I don't like the word 'icon ' , as overuse has devalued its meaning , but it is amusing to note how the passage of time can transform a tired old 6 grand E Type or distressed DS on its last legs to barn find icon status with a rewritten back story which misses out the decades when they were just knackered old cars.

Robert 'Partridge ' Coucher has elevated this technique to an art form in Octane

[Mammasaid]

TooMany2cvs said:

All this "Most beautiful car in the world" hype is complete cobblers. It's not even the most beautiful Ferrari 250 - by a long chalk. I'm not particularly convinced it's even in the top dozen 250 variants...

I beg to differ......I'd not chuck it out of bed for farting.

[TooMany2cvs]

Mammasaid said:

I beg to differ......I'd not chuck it out of bed for farting.

Oh, don't get me wrong... It's no SsangYong.

But when other 250s include such beauties as the Lusso, TdF, Cali, SWB, Testarossa, Boano, <takes deep breath, remembers mid-engined 250s> etc etc etc... Hell, even the tubby unloved common-or-garden family GTE - donor for so many fake GTOs - is more coherent and cohesive. Never mind the mix of random shapes around the nose - round brake vents, oval grille, split by rectangular lights - just look at that horrible mismatch between door top and windscreen top on the GTO - it's like they had a big pile of screens kicking around, so just shrugged and lobbed 'em at it. It's function, not form.