hi i have been surfing this website for a while, and a huge huge ferrari fan just wondering what is the most valuable/expensive ferrari???
According to Cavallino the highest valued Ferrari models would be the 250 GTO series I and II and the 330 P4 apparently all valued at $6,000,000 - $9,000,000. But one thing to remember is that a classic Ferraris values are dependant on the race history The 275 LM (5893) that won Le Mans in 1965 would definately bring huge numbers if it were ever up for sale.
If this article is accurate, the top price ever paid for a 250 GTO was in excess of $16 million. http://www.askmen.com/toys/top_10_60/75c_top_10_list.html I have seen $14-16 M quoted in other sources. But regardless of the actual number, I think it's safe to say that this model tops the list.
One very important TR was sold for well over $10M this year. Sorry but I can not provide details. I will have another TR and a GTO for a client in Monterey. Not for sale and the owner has twice turned down offers near the $10M mark for the TR. A GTO did once trade hands for over $16M. Sadly a replica GTO was sold at the same time for over $10M. Their are othe Ferraris worth more than $10M but the numbers are meaningless as the owners wont sell and those that have them dont need the money. Regards, Bill Noon
To me, that's absolutely pathetic. Did the buyer know it was a replica? If he/she didn't, how could someone be smart enough to amass $10M and not check out what the car really was? (Must have been inherited wealth.) And if he/she DID know, that's quite a price to pay to try to fool one's friends.
The 250 GTO, I remember seeing one at Classic Coach early this year, STUNNING! He told me it sold for something like 16 million
But, as Bill Noon (and perhaps others here might tell you), the most "valuable" one might not necessarily be the most desirable one. I appreciate the heritage and aura surrounding the 250 GTO's ( i actually prefer the earlier ones, appearancewise, to the so-called '64 version), but what floats my boat is the 250 SWB, the 375 MM and the long wheel base california. Not nearly as "valuable" but, at least for me, have an appeal that goes beyond their relative place in the marketplace.
I agree there a few Ferraris id pick over a GTO ( price being the same ) 512 S 375 MM ( Jean Sages one ) 250 SWB comp Daytona Comp 250 LM Cali SWB And of course , the P3, P4 but those are as expensive as the GTOs..
Todd... maybe Im stating the obvious... but you realize Bill means the 1950's TRs, not the 1980/90s one.
$10 mil does seem high, so it must be special as I thought you could get into a TR for just upwards of $3 mil.
And just to clarify further, the 1950's car was the Testa Rossa (two words), while the newer car was the Testarossa (one word).
I'm going to separate 'valuable' and 'expensive' for a moment. To me, the most valuable Ferrari is 002C, the first customer Ferrari. It's this car that helped launch the company as a commercial enterprise and lead to all that followed.
I think a 250GTO was sold to japanese collectors and it was going to a museum in Japan for some time, the cost of the car I am almost too sure that it was $21,000,000.
I know of a 250GTO reproduction done by Favre(I think I got his name right) that was sold as an original to a man that already owned a 250GTO, when this man got his new "250GTO" home a few days later he noticed that the serial number matched his other 250GTO. This happened when the big Ferrari boom of the late 80s and I am not too sure if he paid from 5 million to 7 million, but the punch line to this story is that he then sold it to someone else as a real 250GTO. Is this the same story we are talking about?? By the way Favre did this reproductions so good that it even fooled experts, he had everything he needed to built this cars exactly as the real ones exactly down to the minimun detail, even the cars started the same way, the same sounds, smell, and it handle the same, they were perfect clones as he also reproduce the engines, transmisions, everything. At least that is what Top Wheels mag. said about one that they tested and inspected, he had all the blueprints needed to make a "real" 250GTO. Also Favre had many parts finished already to start building Testa Rossas or he already did some. He had some encounters with Ferrari and they got ugly, I think thats the reason why he did 2 years in jail and the reason why Pontiac stoped the idiotic Fiero Mera. Ferrari was attacking kit builders making Ferrari replicas and thats also another reason why Ferrari tuners started to removed the Ferrari badges from the cars the modified, for example Koenig did this because they changed body panels in many of their cars. There is a Favre reproduction for sale I think here in the U.S. right now and the asking price is $250,000.
Saw this car at Crystal Cove last month. This might be the TRC625 you are thinking of. I don't recall the year, but the owner said the car had lots of race history and was own by some drug smuggler in holland, I think. A friend of mine in the business said the car was worth well north of 3.0M in his opinion. MB http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18920 Image Unavailable, Please Login
A friend of mine sold this 62 (2nd one produced) a few years ago for approx 4 mi. He did say he was offered 12 mi at one time but wasn't ready to sell. The color shots are mine but the B&W was taken in 62 & that is Enzo to the right of the same car. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Heres some valuable/E X P E N S I V E Ferraris for sale.... http://www.mobile.de/SIDdBkyP8YcVKB2Ncb9J2naTw-t-vaNexlCsAsCsK%F3P%F3R~BmSB10LsearchPublicJ1086995082A1LsearchPublicD1100CCarS-t-vpLtt~BmPA1B20A0Z-t-v_X_Y_x_y~BSRA6A2A0A0A0/cgi-bin/searchPublic.pl?_form=search&sr_make=8600&sr_model=250&sr_priceFrom=-2&sr_priceTo=-2&sr_category=1100&sr_powerRange=-2&sr_registrationDateFrom=-2&sr_registrationDateTo=-2&sr_mileageFrom=-2&sr_mileageTo=-2&sr_engineType=-2&sr_doorCount=-2&sr_color=-2&sr_country=-2&sr_zip=&sr_zipRadiusTo=-2&sr_damaged=0&sr_daysOldTo=-2&sr_sortOrder=0&doSearch.x=0&doSearch.y=0 Paul www.SuperCarCrash.com
So some of the rarest and most valuable Ferraris are 4 cylinder cars. There goes the whole V-12 myth. Puts the 6 cylinder models in perspective. Especially since they (Dino 246 GTS) are among the 3 most rapidly appreciating historic Ferraris. Oh sorry, 6 cylinder cars are not real Ferraris.
