Barnfind Ferrari 250 GTE

learned about from http://mattstonecars.com/blog/?p=216

Take for example, the case of film director Agostino “Dino” De Laurentiis’ Ferrari 250 GTE which was just expertly sold by Bonhams at its Monaco auction held just last month. This was at one time a beautiful automobile, resplendant in metallic silver paint over red leather, with a screaming 3.0-liter Ferrari V-12 up front and gleaming Borrani wire wheels on its suspension. The car has been sitting for decades, but appeared very complete and whole, which adds considerable to its value and appeal.

 Bonhams sold the car for about $163,000, and it will take every penny of $100,000 to restore it properly and make it once again the beautiful automobile it deserves to be. When completed, it’ll probably be worth about that same $100,000, perhaps a little more, placing, for the moment, no value on its celbrity ownership. Hmmmm….unless I were the late director’s close relative, I’m not sure having his $100,000 car would be worth $263,000 to me.

Billionaire wrecks a 30 million dollar 1962 Ferrari GTO

http://www.bornrich.com/billionaire-christopher-cox-30-million-ferrari-250-gto-car-crash.html for the story

Le Mans by Steve McQueen

 It's fantastic, to me, to see the car haulers/race car transporters

the cinematography and composure of the scenes was pretty damn good, above is an example

 Above and below, are more of the great photography I was impressed by.

The beautiful Ferrari's that were at the Dana Point Concours

 The guy with the hat on is Drew, he runs Russo and Steel auctions... nice guy. Races a trans am race car at Speedfest every year

Did you hear about the Ferrari on the Great Wall Of China? Huge problem when a hot head did a burn out ... so embarrased were Ferrari company officials, they publically apologized that a car they made, not drove, not owned, not endorsing this use of, BUT MADE... was dishonoring the Chinese national monument. That is a respectable thing to do

It was a publicity moment, the 20th anniversary of Ferrari's being allowed to sell in China. A dealership employee, not a Ferrari employee, so disgraced the Ferrari name in making tire tracks on the wall, that Ferrari company reps made an apology for the act of disrespect.

Wow, that is a class move by Ferrari. I hope China responded in respect and allowed that a manufacturer is not responsible for the users of a car, just for the quality of it's build. How Chinese citizens use cars is the realm of China's responsibility.Where cars are allowed to operate, how they attain the elevated top of the wall (by a crane) and what elected or appointed person gives the approval for a car on the wall... these are all the problems of a country, not a car maker.

Ferrari... classy way to handle this event
China... I don't know how they responded to Ferrari's PR

Learned about this on http://www.tripsandturns.com/2012/05/ferrari-burning-rubber-in-nanjing/

full story at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-18006291 but if you watch the video, you'll get all the same info

Highest price for a car at auction just reset to $35 million, for a '62 Ferrari 250 GTO

that is the best investment I've heard of, this car was just bought for 8 million in 2000, and in 1996 for 3.5 million... it's also a instant pass to any car show, race, or billionaires club

photo from http://blog.caranddriver.com/stirling-moss%E2%80%99s-1962-ferrari-250-gto-is-world%E2%80%99s-most-expensive-car/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+caranddriver%2Fblog+%28Car+and+Driver%29

Via the Vintage Racing League http://www.thevrl.com/

Ferrari have got a surprisingly good reason to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee

I WAS a bit confused when Ferrari announced how it'd be celebrating the Diamond Jubilee.

Italy's most iconic car maker are not only sending a cavalcade of their finest creations to Windsor to mark the celebrations, but they're also bringing a division of the mounted Carabinieri (that's Italian for bobbies on horses) with them. All this for a foreign head of state who, while being fabulously rich, has never actually owned a Ferrari. Prince Charles we all know for being a bit of an Aston man, but I don't recall Queen Elizabeth II being on the waiting list for the 458 Italia.

Then it clicked. The bosses of the most obviously petrolhead company on the planet are paying tribute to something you probably didn't know about Her Majesty. Whisper it softly, but the Queen is a car enthusiast! You probably thought Britain's highest profile motoring fan was Jeremy Clarkson, didn't you? There are, even if you exclude the presenters of Top Gear, all sorts of powerful and influential people who have a passion for motoring. Steve Coogan, for instance, or Jamiroquai frontman Jay Kay. Chris Evans, meanwhile, is a proper Ferrari ambassador, and has an entire collection of the Prancing Horse's finest. Arguably, though, the Queen is more high profile than any of those. She appears on our banknotes and everything!

Don't believe me? Well, it's a fact that Her Majesty The Queen is a trained mechanic, and while she could have done all sorts of different things to help the British war effort in the 1940s she spent most of the conflict in a boiler suit underneath army trucks, mending things. It's also true that she had a Rover P5B Coupe (a proper, regal old Rover from the days they were fitted with plush carpets and thumping great V8 engines) which she had not as something she could be chauffeured about in, but so that she could actually drive it herself, simply because she enjoyed it. When she eventually got rid of it she got a Jag for exactly the same purpose.

There's something strangely comforting in these austere times about knowing that the ruling monarch, deep down, is a keen driver with a James May-like command of mechanical knowhow and a taste for V8-engined luxury saloons. No wonder Ferrari thought it'd be a good idea to celebrate 60 years of her reign by showing her some F40s and Daytonas.

Deep down, I reckon she'd like ‘em...

3 beautiful Ferraris from the Graystone Mansion Concours

1948 Ferrari 166 Spyder Corsa, body work by Scaglietti

 I don't think I've ever seen gauges this sun faded before.

 Roman numerals on the shifter handle, why not? It's Italian

 the seats are Python, why not... I've seen seats of aligator

Ferraris in front, in primary colors (red blue yellow)

 great looking car in racing stickers or without. First Ferrari I can think of that has had hood pins that I remember ever noticing