Maranello Rosso Collection: Bonhams Monterey 2014 (Anamera)

‘Ten Important Motor Cars from the Maranello Rosso Collection’ are to be sold at its
annual Quail Lodge Auction

Ferrari 250 GTO s/n 3851GT 64/may/24 - 6th OA 2nd GT (7'15_36) - Coppa della Consuma hillclimb - Ernesto Prinoth Ferrari 250 GTO s/n 3851GT

Hot on the heels of the Bonhams Motor Car Department selling £24-million-worth of mouth-watering machines at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the company announces ‘Ten Important Motor Cars from the Maranello Rosso Collection’ are to be sold at its annual Quail Lodge auction on the Monterey Peninsula, California, in August. ... MediaCenter Gallery >>> The Sale will be headed by the world’s longest single-ownership Ferrari 250 GTO Berlinetta – which has effectively been in one family’s care for no fewer than 49 years from 1965-2014.  The car is to be offered for sale by auction AT NO RESERVE on August 14-15.  The enduringly gorgeous 250 GTO’s appeal is its dual-personality as rumbustious (and GT World Championship-winning) road racer, as startlingly streamlined winner of the fantastic multi-day Tour de France Automobile, and yet also perfectly civilised and road-useable shopping car.  The 250 GTO is the most coveted jewel in the classic car world’s crown, a beauty in which an owner can show his prowess on track one day, and then go touring beside a comfortably seated companion the next.   The Maranello Rosso Collection car, chassis number ‘3851GT’, was the 19th 250 GTO Berlinetta in sequence, completed new on September 11, 1962. It was delivered to the leading French racing driver Jo Schlesser, to be co-driven by himself and daring French ski Champion Henri Oreiller in the 1962 Tour de France Automobile. The pair challenged for victory and finished an honourable second overall. The car was then crashed during a race at Montlhery Autodrome, just south of Paris, France.  It was repaired immediately by Ferrari in Italy and was sold to Italian gentleman driver Paolo Colombo in time for the start of the 1963 competition season.  At the time of ‘3851 GT’s re-emergence the latter half of Ferrari 250 GTO production was still in full swing at Maranello and in the Scaglietti body plant in Modena. Paolo Colombo enjoyed a very successful season in ‘against-the-clock’ Italian national mountain-climb events,  before selling it to Ernesto Prinoth for 1964.  He then used the car widely in both mountain-climbs and circuit races, again with fine results. READ FULL POST AND MORE HERE