2 275GTB/4 NART spiders in the UK for sale

400SPYDER · Jan 29, 2005

Originally posted in the UK section

400SPYDER said:

Came across this whilst window shopping on the internet

Without cheating, ie going looking with google, why don't you try and guess the price of this beauty.

Ferrari 275GTB/4 Straman NART spider

One of only a handful of Straman cars. Finished in Galio fly with <a style='text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 3px double;' href="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=24&k=black%20leather" onmouseover="window.status='<a style='text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 3px double;' href="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=24&k=black%20leather" onmouseover="window.status='black leather'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;">black leather</a>'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;">black leather</a> and burgandy carpets, it has a black soft top.

The car is in excellant condition throughout and has recentley been serviced and fully checked over.

It sits on Borrani wheels.

The following gives background to Richard Straman... FERRARI "275/4 GTB. Like wine connoisseurs, Ferrari aficionados have favourite models that aren't well known by the greater public. While the magazines and casual exotic car fans search for superlatives to describe the <a style='text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 3px double;' href="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=24&k=new%20cars" onmouseover="window.status='<a style='text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 3px double;' href="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=24&k=new%20cars" onmouseover="window.status='new cars'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;">new cars</a>'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;">new cars</a> from Maranello, the faithful who gather at a Ferrari Club meet hardly raise an eyebrow at a 360 Modena Spyder. New cars from Ferrari are almost always greater than the last but it takes time to see how they rank among the legends. Among the tifosi few cars rank higher than the 1966-68 275 GTB/4 Coupe and GTB/4 S Spyder. It is an ending no one could have predicted when the car was new. Of all the periods of high drama in Maranello, none topped the mid to late 1960's. It began when Ford nearly bought Ferrari in 1963. But the deal fell apart over control of the Ferrari racing team and Henry Ford II hired Carroll Shelby-an adversary of Ferrari from a decade earlier-to campaign Fords against Ferrari at Le Mans. Between 1964 and 1967 this became the greatest blood feud in the history of racing. After the deal broke Ford and Ferrari came to genuinely hate each other and the action on the track was only an extension of a battle between two titanic egos. Ferrari also had his hands full with the tractor maker. Earlier in the decade, Ferruccio Lamborghini-owner of a tractor factory that bore his name-began to build his own cars, reportedly after being slighted by Ferrari when he came to complain about poor workmanship on his car. (Only Lamborghini's trip to call on Ferrari is unconfirmed. Poor quality and arrogance were well documented in Maranello.) By 1966 the automotive world was abuzz with rumours that the upstart was going to bring the revolutionary mid-engine design only a few years old in racing to the street. So was Ford through another rival, Alejandro DeTomaso-who had brought nemesis Maserati back from the dead. Finally, the relationship with the man who had done more than any other to bring Ferrari wealth to match his fame was strained again. Luigi Chinetti had known Ferrari since they were men in their early 20's, shortly after WWI. He had brought Ferrari's to America and just as Chinetti made them the choice for the jet set and Hollywood elite, Enzo Ferrari made it abundantly clear he cared about nothing but the racing teams. Production cars only paid the bills to support the race program. The 275 series was born into this opera. Launched in 1964 as a successor to the incredibly successful 250 GT and GTO series of road and competition cars, the first generation of the new cars failed to live up to the standards set by their predecessors. The styling by Pininfarina was bulbous and as indistinctive by any standard. Compared to the 250 GT it looked like an obese woman squeezed into a designer dress. The competition models continued to perform well in endurance racing, but the faster Prototype cars ended their days of challenging for overall victory. Where 33 GTO, s were made for competition, only 17 275 GTB/C's found buyers. In 1966 the 275 was sent back to the drawing board. Pininfarina sharpened the design. To make a second sexist analogy, the car emerged looking like Sophia Loren after a few months in the gym: taunt, powerful but still feminine in its curves. The appearance of power was more than skin deep. The venerable Colombo VS. -12 now wore dual overhead camshafts and the row of six Weber carburettors-an option on the first 275-became standard equipment. Power jumped from 239 to 330. When 12 buyers lined up for GTB/CO Series II cars and took them to first and second in class at Le Mans in 1966, it seemed Ferrari had finally found a successor to the 250 cars. The 275 GTB/4 was a smash hit for the image of Ferrari. Yet it was outsold-or perhaps simply out produced-by the more pedestrian 330 series by nearly two-to-one. Luigi Chinetti begged Ferrari to do something. He had battled with Il Commodore over abysmal quality and hideous colour choices on the cars being sent to him to sell. And now he asked Ferrari to make 25 Spyder models of the 275 GTB/4 to sell in America. Ferrari refused. There was already a convertible to sell, the competent but uninspiring-styled 330 GTS, and Ferrari believed Chinetti should be able to sell whatever was sent to him. But in one of only a few times in his life, Ferrari relented and a small run of 275 GTB/4 S Spiders were prepared. The changes from coupe to convertible were minimal-no extra bracing was made to the steel space frame and coachbuilder Scalletti made some cars as convertibles from the start and cut away the roofs from coupes on others. For reasons unknown only ten of the planned 25 cars were built, all but one going to Chinetti in America, where its buyers nicknamed it the NART in honour of Chianti's North American Racing Team. As stunning as the GTB/4 looked in hardtop form, removing the roof lifted it into another dimension. It is everything you think of when you imagine post-war sports car-sleek, powerful and blessed with exquisite proportion and detail. Lines flow cleanly from one into the other and most important, as they used to say, it looks like it's going a hundred miles an hour when it's standing still. And the 275 were the rare exotic that drove as well as it looked. Blessed with a broad power, the four-cam engine generated a strong, broad range of torque. Unlike the later Daytonas, which were too powerful for the suspension and tires of their day, the engine of the 275 GTB/4 was perfectly suited to the technology available in 1966, 67 and 68. Run up to 8,000 rpm the engine makes that singularly Ferrari noise of whirring valve and an exhaust roar that sounds like ripping canvas. It is one of the most beautiful sounds all of autonomy. More than thirty years after the last 275 GTB/4 was made it is still considered among the very best driving Ferrari's ever made. Until Tom Seleck and Don Johnson brought Ferrari's to television in the early 1980's, the NART also had the greatest star power. The first NART appeared with Steve McQueen in the original version of The Thomas Crown Affair. McQueen bought the sixth car made and developed an almost religious fervour for it. Other well known NART owners include Noel Blanc-who took over after the death of his father as the voice of Bugs Bunny and the other Looney Tunes characters, and designer Ralph Lauren. (These are only the most recognizable names. In my research I discovered that a dinner with past and current NART owners would be one of the more interesting ways to spend an evening. Something about this car attracts people who have more than money to bring to the table.) Ferrari ended the production run of NART Spiders after ten cars. But the demand in the US market for them launched the career of Richard Straman. As a young engineer and coachbuilder, he was commissioned in the early 1970's to convert a GTB/4 coupe into a Spyder. The quality of his work was so exceptional that other Ferrari owners came forward and several more cars were completed. Over the last three decades Straman has made countless cars into ragtops. One of the most recent was a Ferrari 550 Maranello, a car with strong styling and heritage links to the GTB/4. It is as spectacular as you would imagine. But once again Ferrari seems unconvinced that there is a substantial market for a ragtop grand toured. The more things change... -Brian Igor

colour Galio Fly

interior colour Black leather

drive LHD

type Cabrio / Roadster

year 6/1968

mileage 9.000 km / 5.592 m
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400SPYDER · Jan 29, 2005

Second one

400SPYDER said:

Well this is a bargain - comparitively.

Same dealers got this one :-

Ferrari 275GTB 2 cam Nart Spider

restored and converted by Mototechnic in the early ninties to alloy body NART spider specification from an original LHD car, in excellant condition throughout on Borrani wheels.

colour Blue metallic

interior colour tan leather

drive LHD

type Cabrio / Roadster

year 1967

mileage 3.300 km / 2.051 m

price 345.000 GBP
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SefacHotRodder · Jan 29, 2005

A week too late

http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=46073

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