Weekend Edition Wall Street Journal visits GTO Engineering

but why fake ferrari? it is still a ferrari.
GTO is always telling the original serial number ( only the number, not the letters ) so it is no fake in my eyes. and everybody could check with this serial number what car it once was. and as long as it is the original frame with the original frame number then it is still a ferrari. there are on the market a lot of other cars ( like mercedes pagode with US 4 and 6 cylinder engines but they are still mercedes ) not original but still with the original manufacturer plate.

nevertheless a good article, but what is written there: That paint is getting very hard to source, actually - as mr lyon noted is not right. I have used this kind of paint since more than 20 years and still use it.and today it is easy to coat the valve covers and it looks like original wrickle paint

 

A former GTO employee told me the only Ferrari part in the cars is a tiny piece of frame with the Ferrari chassis number on it get it a Ferrari title. In his words they could build a 250SWB on a 456 chassis number if nesessary. I’ve heard that some have used 308 chassis numbers.

 

When Favre was doing almost the same thing it was a scandal.

Now, for some reason and to some people, it is acceptable.

Discuss.

 

Now that is interesting. For a car that you take out for a Sunday morning blast for you own pleasure, if you are not looking to fool anyone other than the licensing authorities. If you find a car which as GTO say cannot be saved under any circumstances. Also, saying 308 on the logbook makes future fraud less possible.

Its been discussed many times before, its gets heated. One interesting poster left and hasn't been heard of since.

 

I've posted a question about this here: https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/posts/146084945/

What Matthew says is what I have heard from a number of others.

Romano's point - "as long as it is the original frame" - is a comment I also hear a lot, but plainly if the former is the case, then it's not the complete original frame at all, is it?

This can also be understood from a simple calculation of wheelbase figures - i.e. the difference between a 330 GT 2+2 and a 250 SWB is 250mm. I'm sure there are quite a few people who wrongly assume that to build these replicas, a lovely new hand-beaten body is just 'dropped' onto the all-original tubing and bolted on without a fuss...

-Ed

 

UPDATE: Individual who works with the company states that he has confirmed with GTO Engineering that they only rebody the original chassis...

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-Ed