Merged: 250 GTO sold for $20 million +

I heard that the recent GTO sale price was equivalent to $22.5 MM (a.k.a. current GTO membership dues paid in full ;-).

Max

 

I believe that chassis 5095 sold for $22.5 MM. Another transaction occured for a different GTO at $28 MM recently. Can anyone confirm?

Max

 

Does anyone have specific information about this rumored sale?

http://www.sportscardigest.com/archives/1577

 

See this thread in the vintage section


http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=203096

 

Thanks - I had seen that thread before, but not recently. Still, there doesn't seem to be concrete information about the trade.

 

"While $30,000,000 may be a mind-blowing amount of money to pay for a car, the buyer is also buying a true work of art and one of only 36 Ferrari 350 GTOs, the most famous of all Ferraris."

 

You quoted them incorrectly

 

How many of the 36 are actually fully functioning, and/or driven? Be it, on rare occassions or other.

 

Now I'm curious how many of the 36 are 350's??

 

I lifted it right from here.

http://www.sportscardigest.com/archives/1577

 

no you didn't. You changed 250 to 350.

 

Interesting, someone there must have seen my post and done an edit, you perhaps?

It was cut and paste, no changes to the text.

 

Amazingly enough, all 36 are alive today. Some of them aren't completely original, but they're all still around. There's an owner in Italy who drives his GTO a lot - a LOT - but I don't know how often the others are driven.

 

not I.

 

Some are still driven. Here's me following one on a mid-Atlantic drive this spring. My car is far from quiet but I couldn't even hear my car shift when I was close to him. Unbeleivable experience to drive behind one of these treasures.
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Begs the question of how many of the 36 are actually real.

 

Sorry to say, but the one above in Reston was not a real one , but a recreation. Here's a real one, (not technically, it's really a 330 GTO) but trust me, it's very real. The same gentleman owns all treee of the pretty remarkable cars in pic. GTO ,312PB, and 206 SP.
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I have a pic from when I saw that #22 GTO at the Ferrari Challenge at Infineon. My friend knew the owner and I touched the car, wonder if its the one that went for 30 mill?

 

Thats just crazy man 30mil for a ferrari and here I was complaining about 100k for a 355 .

 

I thought there'd be at least 42 of the original 36 still around

 

No, it's more than that, just like Daytona spiders

 

Fabrizio Violati has owned his GTO s/n 3851 since 1965
but most of the time is kept at his museum COLLEZIONE MARANELLO ROSSO .

that must be the least expensive GTO when he bought it, as it was just an used old race car.

 

Withint the last 10 years, Several Van Goghs' (as an example) have gone for $40M+.....

And they are just oil and canvas that you can hang in your vaca home...

A 250 GTO is a living breathing entity, which by defenition is no less a work of art than any Monet, Manet, Gogh, Seret, Warhall...etc....and it's something you can actually interact with...why not $30M.... seems like a bargin to me.

 

Wow, 30 millions is a lot of money, but this is a piece of art.

 

I guess you have to figure there are about 1000 billionaires in the world... most of them guys...
most guys love cars. What marque is one of the most "prestigious" to own, and of that marque
which is the most "desirable" to own... and perhaps the hardest to get your hands on? To me
it's hard to see why they aren't selling for $50 mil+. I am sure within the next 10 years or so,
with all the new billionaires added to the world total every year (I think 180 new people joined
the billionaire club just last year) It's only a matter of 10 years or so till those these GTO's start
jumping up in price by $10 mil every time one sells. Nice car to own right now. Thing is, how do
you get one of those billionaires to part with a gto once they have their hands on one? The money
it's worth probably doesnt mean that much to them... what means more (I'll bet) is they have
something everyone would like to own... and cant have. It's mine... all mine!!!!