There are two Ferrari 250 LMs in existence with the same serial number - one has the OEM Engine, the other has the OEM Chassis/coachwork. Can't recall the S/N, but both were on-sale at the same time for $3-7 Million, each.....
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--- On Tue, 7/13/10, Charles Perry <charles [at] carolina-sound.com> wrote:
From: Charles Perry <charles [at] carolina-sound.com> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Fake Ferrari's To: "Michael" <Cavallino_Rapante [at] yahoo.com> Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com> Date: Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 2:46 PM
There was a 250GTO reproduction around here for a while built on a modified Ford Mustang platform with Mustang 5.0 power.
Proportionally and visually it was an outstanding copy. Until it started up you wouldn't have guessed...
One of the better repros I've seen.
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There was a company some years back, can't remember if they were Swiss based, or Italian. They were making "reproduction" cars of the first GTOs and such. Some had 400i V12, and other sourced bits if I remember. They were a little bit too good, and Ferrari had them shut down. As I remember, they were pretty much clone cars, down to the hand beaten panels. They even fooled some well seasoned Ferrari fans. I'm sure the ones made are still kicking around somewhere.
Ed 911SC
On 13 July 2010 12:50, LarryT <l02turner [at] comcast.net> wrote:
The new Autoweek arrived today and there was a odd article. Seems a wealthy family in Italy has been modifying wrecked Ferrari's & engines to make them look like more valuable ones. I figured someone was turning a 308 into a 288GTO or something similar. People can do amazing stuff with FRP.
Then they lost me - they said the American connection was Pontiac Fiero's were the base /donor car for some of their creations. Creations? More like abortions.
Seems some Fiero's were rebodied to look like a 308GTB. I guess until Ferrari issued a court order stopping that here (I think) - but even so, doesn't seem like there'd be much profit in that kind of reproduction?
I can scan the article if others want to read
it.
LarryT
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