The genuine Ferrari 250 GTO spotted thread

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As a nod to someone recently stumping up $70 million or whatever it was for a 250 GTO, I think it would be nice to have a thread showing any photos of these beauties that you may have taken out in the wild (or wherever!). My brother has kindly dug into our "archive" and come up with the following photos we took at events in the late 1980s to early/mid 1990s. The three parked in a row were taking part in the rainy Norwich Union classic car run to Silverstone around 1989. They were already worth several millions each back then. The barchetta.cc website provides details of each chassis, but here's a summary. Feel free to add any of your own photos.

TCH 100 "3505GT" ex Moss TT winner. Owned by the TC Harrison Ford dealer brothers
TCH 101 "3909GT". Owned by the TC Harrison Ford dealer brothers
EUP977B "3729GT" ex Hill & Parkes 2 x TT runner-up: owned by Jack Sears
6GTO "3527GT": owned by Stephen Pilkington
RBY336K "3445GT": owned by Robs Lamplough
Dark one at Festival of Speed "4219GT": owned by Brandon Wang

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That's the same car as TCH100 in the first image (3505 GT).

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Hmm, according to barchetta.cc the stated chassis number of that green one is actually a special-bodied blue 250 SWB that never belonged to David Piper. I think they have mixed it up with 250 GTO chassis number 4491GT, which was the BP green car supplied new to Piper. If so it's a silly mistake by the Exhibitor.

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308 GT4

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928 GTS said:

Its semi public secret that several GTO owners have replica of their real car which is used especially in racing events to protect expensive investment. Knowing enough about each real car and digging deep enough its possible to identify those replicas from real ones. Really good and properly done replica with actual Ferrari parts is now days £1M+ so crash isn't cheap but its sure much cheaper than devaluing real one with yet more crash history. Though almost all of them were crashed in period, many heavily and more than once. Still every new hit means part of originality and value is lost forever. Even if body is real, engine, gearbox ect. parts used in them are many times copies of original parts. Good stuff stays intact in garage and is safe while sacrificial spare is used. Sort of like putting really good printed copy of Mona Lisa on display.

When the Bamford 64 GTO “APB 1” crashed at Goodwood a few years ago, I was surprised by the in-car footage. Did any GTO leave the factory with this interior configuration?

[LotusOmega375D]

Back in November 2006, Octane covered Mototechnique’s full restoration of 3527GT (“6 GTO”). The headline quoted 2450 hours of labour. Now I have no idea what the hourly rate at Mototechnique was back then, but let’s guess at £75 /hour, which would equate to £183,750. The car wasn’t exactly a basket case before the restoration, so I doubt the parts bill would have been too massive. So a wild guess at a bill for £250,000 all-in? Compare that to a value today of what £40 million? That’s the equivalent expenditure to filling my wife’s Polo with a tank of petrol!