Any 250 GTO fans here?

[ferrari spider]

Man ya got to see this siht. By far the best real vintage footage i have seen of 3! Gtos driving together through the streets in America. And check out the 7mil £s California, check out what they do to it!!! WTF!!
Clearly none of them imagined the value of each Ferraro back then. Enjoy its amazing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md_jcC6OnIU&pla...

[M3John]

It is a lovely video for sure.

DINKEL info please mate...


Dink posted it on my Facebook page over a year ago now with plenty of info on th vid. Still a cracking effort though !

Edited by M3John on Wednesday 12th May 22:54

[ferrari spider]

I would not know that mate, i am not part the face ache world. Contrary to belief not every one is. I for one like to think i have a life

[ShadownINja]

Lucky sods.

Much like this guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivlVfChBkzg

[M3John]

ferrari spider said:

I would not know that mate, i am not part the face ache world. Contrary to belief not every one is. I for one like to think i have a life

I know you wouldn't sir. Was only asking for Dink to pop by with the info for us all, after all it is a great video with lovely commentary. It's actually nice to see these machines being used as they were intended to in the first place. I know how you feel about the whole FaceAche thing though. Have recently deactivated my account on there as it was getting a `little intrusive` to say the least.

[M3John]

ShadownINja said:

Lucky sods.

Much like this guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivlVfChBkzg

[AndrewW-G]

The story of the guys driving and owning the cars was in IIRC one of the FOC magazines a year or two ago, will dig it out in the morning and scan it in.

One of the cars involved was one of the 4 litre GTO's produced with the standard 62-63 body

[Pommygranite]

40 secs in "Mario Tassi...who had just sold his GTO to buy a new Maserati Ghibli'

[jdw1234]

One of the guys in the videos posted it on Ferrari chat.

Apparantly, the Cali was hand painted in camouflage paint and taken to a car meet!

Awesome.

[Beefmeister]

Incredible video.

I suppose at the time these 19-20yrs olds buying 250GTOs and 250 Calis is a bit like the current bankers/celebs buying them, then wrapping them to go on Gumball.

That guy HAND PAINTING a 250 GT California in Army colours... If only he knew the value that car would have in 50yrs...

One question though - who is the Stephen Mitchell guy narrating, and who owned the GTO with the Le Mans lights on the roof? A look on WIkipedia finds some odd people who surely can't be him.

Edited by Beefmeister on Friday 14th May 16:18

[Beefmeister]

Also, this vid is brilliant. Loads of shots of GTOs roaring off into the distance.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=GTO3987#p/u/13...

Oh, and the guy filming's daughter is pretty hot too!

[jdw1234]

Beefmeister said:

Incredible video.

I suppose at the time these 19-20yrs olds buying 250GTOs and 250 Calis is a bit like the current bankers/celebs buying them, then wrapping them to go on Gumball.

That guy HAND PAINTING a 250 GT California in Army colours... If only he knew the value that car would have in 50yrs...

One question though - who is the Stephen Mitchell guy narrating, and who owned the GTO with the Le Mans lights on the roof? A look on WIkipedia finds some odd people who surely can't be him.

Edited by Beefmeister on Friday 14th May 16:18

This is what I was referring to...

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

...enjoy.

[Streetrod]

Even back then GTO's were not cheap. How did he afford one at 19???? I am so impressed

[ferrari spider]

jdw1234 said:

This is what I was referring to...

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

...enjoy.

Yes a great thread that one. Just read it and thanks fa posting

[ferrari spider]

Part 2 of the original video i posted. Amazing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCfItWwi2V8&pla...