In the finest tradition of Ferrari’s dual-purpose road and racing berlinettas, the new 250 GT SWB was a tractable and well-mannered daily driver about town, but it was a veritable beast in a race, where the ever more powerfully-tuned Colombo V-12 and revised rear suspension delivered unprecedented performance. Competition-specification cars with additionally uprated engines and lighweight alloy aluminum bodies were immediately made available for racing customers, 43 of these competizione examples were made in the model’s first year of production, 1960. (Just two SWB examples were produced in late-1959, the show cars of Paris and Torino.)
A vintage Ferrari car is on display during the "The Great Challenges Ferrari-Maserati" exhibition, dedicated to the competition between the two great names in Italian car racing, at the Museo Casa Enzo Ferrari in Modena, northern Italy, Oct. 15, 2012.
So can you guess what this car's year of manufacture and model is? Let us know.
Come see all the exciting Ferrari scale models and Ferrari memorabelia in our great Italian restaurant on the Melkbosstrand beachfront.


260 hp, 2,999 cc DOHC four-cylinder engine, two Weber 58 mm DCOA/3 carburetors, dry sump lubrication, five-speed manual transmission, independent front suspension with unequal-length A-arms and coil springs, de Dion rear axle with transverse leaf springs and trailing arms, four-wheel hydraulic drum brakes. Wheelbase 88.6"
- One of only 35 built, a matching-numbers example
- Starring role in On the Beach, featuring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner
- Driven on screen by Fred Astaire
- Brussels Motor Show car, 1955
- Race-winning history, including John Von Neumann, Phil Hill, Harrison Evans
- Two-year documented restoration
Looking to buy your other half something really special for Christmas? Well, the estimate on this car when it reaches the auctioneer's block is between $8m and $10m, which in real money, means a top price of somewhere north of six million pounds.
Ladies and gentlemen, please be upstanding for the world's most famous Ferrari, and arguably one of Maranello's most beautiful designs. It's a 250 GT California Spider - here in LWB trim - being offered up for auction in Gooding's Scottsdale sale.
For some, buying a classic car may be merely adding a car to their collection while for others it is a dream purchase. You don’t buy a classic car as a commuter, just to get you out of the house and to your place of work, rather you buy what made you dream during your youth.
The lucky owner who we present now perspires and bleeds the passion of automotive. His heart is consumed with the prancing horse, Ferrari. “When you love you don’t count the cost” says the Syldave proverb. The quotation was not randomly chosen – our man acquired 3 Ferraris during the last 40 years: 3 Ferrari 275 GTB! Each of these cars has a long story and two of the three Ferrari 275 GTB are very special models.

At the beginning of my exchange with the owner, I did not think of writing an article around his cars as I wanted to concentrate only on the pictures. Then, after our discussions, I realized that he had many interesting things to say. Classico is not just about the cars but about the people behind the cars.
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