Merged: "Breadvan" to be auctioned at Christies...

It didn't sell...

 

Fred: very nice article and great photos.

--Dan

 

WOW!!!! Never seen anything like it...not sure but I think RM cranked out over $25M in sales...

Probably important enough to start a new thread...

Very tired...have not been to sleep in way too many hours...but well worth it....

Cheers,

Bill

 

Does anyone has some good photos of this car when raced at Le Mans 1962?

 

I hope not! The car is only valuable if chassis and body are TOGETHER; it is unique.
There are plenty of SWBs anyway, so why butcher and historical car to recreate another SWB, and obtain 2 mongrels in the process?

There could have been more Breadvans. I read somewhere that Giotto Bizzarini who was behind the GTO had vision of improving it in future along the lines of the Breadvan for the next GTO series. His sacking by Ferrari allowed him to put his ideas in practice on Volpi's SWB. Bizzarini didn't think that the hastly converted 1964 GTO LMs, that came a year later, were an improvement on the originals.

I agree that aestheticly, it has not the most pleasing shape compared to an original GTO, itself not as nice as a Bizzarini Griffo in my eyes.

 

I think it was a joke?