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Ferrari GTO Series

deloreandmc

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What can I say?

When Ferrari GTO is mentioned, what comes to your mind?

The legend and rarity of the 250 GTO,

The amazing good looks and popularity of the 288 GTO,

Or the modern extreme performence hyper car, the 599 GTO.

I will be covering all of these in this thread, starting off with the 250 GTO.


Was released in the 1960s, and was considered the best car of the decade, among many.

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EDIT: I just realised that under the cars number it says officine panerai

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This car was origonally sold for $18,000 US, (too bad its not still like that)

it had a 3.0L V12 engine, and was, and still is, idolised by many toy car manufacturers

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even I have a 1/64 250 GTO.

From 1962-1963 there were 36 cars made, known as the "series I" and in 1964 the "series II" was released, the "series II" had slightly different looks, only 3 were made

making in total, 39 cars ever made.

Motor Trend Classic placed the 250 GTO FIRST on the list of "Greatest Ferraris Of All Time"

Explains why one was recently bought for $30,000,000 at an auction eh?


The interior of the car was extremely basic, to the point where a speedometer wasnt installed in the insturment panel.

Many of its switches came from the Fiat 500, and it was said that as the car was rushed into production, the original cloth seats were made from workers' overalls.

Onto the 288 GTO?

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(please ignore the license plate "car" its there as if they expected us to not know what it is)

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In my opinion, this car had the best rear view of all the GTO line, mainly the mechanics hanging out the bottom

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you may wonder, is there such a place where I would be able to see more then one of these? the answer, is yes

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This car has also been idolised by many model makers. I own 2 1/64 scale models of it myself, one in red, the other in yellow.



The Ferrari GTO was built to compete in the new Group B Race series and a minimum of 200 cars were required for homologation. However as only Ferrari and Porsche, with their 959, entered, the series was soon abandoned leaving just the Group B Rally championship. The Porsche 959 (as the Porsche 961) only raced three times in Group B, but the 288 GTO never raced and all 272 cars built remained purely road cars.


Some of the 288 GTO's styling features were first displayed on a 308 GTB design excercise by Pininfarina shown at the 1977 Geneva Salon. This included the deep front spoiler, fender flares, rear lip spoiler, front lid radiator cooling louvers and quadruple driving lights.


This is the first street legal production car to reach 186mph/300kmh, top speed was 189mph

0-60mph was in the higher 4 seconds range, even today thats still good performence.


Ferrari also built five 288 GTO Evoluzione models with more aggressive and aerodynamic body styling and increased power. The engine in the 288 GTO Evoluzione originally put out as much as 650 hp (480 kW). With weight of 940 kg (2,072 lb) the car had a top speed of 225 mph (362 km/h). These cars form the clearest visual link between the 288 GTO and the F40 soon to follow.
Only three 288 GTO Evoluziones are still in existence, with one at the Gallleria Ferrari museum in Maranello.


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The Ferrari 599 GTO, Ferrari's most recent addition to the epic GTO line.

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(Yes the Stig is in some of these pictures)

On 8 April, 2010, Ferrari announced official details of the 599 GTO. The car is a road going version based on the 599XX* and Ferrari say the 599 GTO is their fastest road car ever, able to lap the Fiorano test circuit in 1 minute 24 seconds, one second faster than the Ferrari Enzo.

0-60mph in under 3.3 seconds

661bhp

620 N-m of torque/ 460 ft lb of torque

a top speed of over 208mph/335 kmh

weighs 220 lbs less then the standard GTB

EVO magazine says the 599 GTB is the car of the year for 2006

Top gear magazine also states the same thing



* here is a picture of the 599XX

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Ferrari felt the 599 should be the newest edition to the extremely exclusive GTO family, and my god they did a good job!
 

HeadToucha

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Nice review !!

I don't know exactly why this 599 is badged as "GTO", this three letters are so famous for Ferrari i would have expected a new Ferrari GTO, not a special edition of a Ferrari.

And to add a precision, after the first well known 250 GTO in 1960, Ferrari made a "serie 2" in 1964:

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JC7

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Sick.. this section of the forum was a great idea. Good job dmc
 

RD-3

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I'll take one of each please... (in my dreams)!
 

Hogan

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I LOVE the 288 GTO. Looks like it would kick your a$$ without even moving!
and the new 599..... OMG... A wet dream on 4-wheels!
 

scenium12

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A 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO has become the world's most expensive car after being sold in a private transaction for $35 million.

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A 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO has recently become the world’s most expensive car after being sold for $35 million, Bloomberg reports. The record-breaking price trumps the previous princely sum of $32 million paid for a 1964 Ferrari 250 GTO back in February, and the $30-34 million paid in 2010 for a 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic.

On top of setting the world’s record for most expensive car, the 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO also has the honorary distinction of being built specifically for British racing legend Stirling Moss. Despite the fact that Moss never actually raced the classic Ferrari (his career was tragically cut short after a crash in 1962 left him in a coma for a month), the car carries a respectable racing pedigree – having won a number of races in its day. The $35 million 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO features a distinct lime-green livery and is one of 39 examples built between 1962 and 1964.

Interestingly the car’s title has passed hands on more than one occasion with the latest owner, U.S.-based classic car collector Craig McCaw, purchasing it from Dutch-born businessman Eric Heerema, owner of Nyetimber vineyard in Sussex, southern England. Heerema, who purchased the green GTO nearly a decade ago for $8.5 million, will no doubt be pleased with the return on his investment.

And although spending a small fortune on a single car is likely out of reach for the vast majority of us, we can’t see McCaw hurting over his $35 million purchase either. McCaw was the co-founder McCaw Cellular, which he later sold to AT&T for cool $11.5 billion back in 1993.

In what could be credited as a clear testament to Maranello’s excellence in engineering, Stirling Moss’ 1962 250 GTO is but one of many big-ticket Ferrari’s sales to go through private transactions during the last two months. A Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa in which U.S. driver Phil Hill won the 1958 Le Mans 24-Hour race was recently sold by French collector Pierre Bardinon for about $25 million, while a Ferrari 250 GTO bought by U.K. television host Chris Evans for a handsome $18 million in 2010 was recently said to have sold somewhere in the region of $25-29 million.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/st...expensive-car/
 

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A 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO has become the world's most expensive car after being sold in a private transaction for $35 million.

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A 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO has recently become the world’s most expensive car after being sold for $35 million, Bloomberg reports. The record-breaking price trumps the previous princely sum of $32 million paid for a 1964 Ferrari 250 GTO back in February, and the $30-34 million paid in 2010 for a 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic.

On top of setting the world’s record for most expensive car, the 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO also has the honorary distinction of being built specifically for British racing legend Stirling Moss. Despite the fact that Moss never actually raced the classic Ferrari (his career was tragically cut short after a crash in 1962 left him in a coma for a month), the car carries a respectable racing pedigree – having won a number of races in its day. The $35 million 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO features a distinct lime-green livery and is one of 39 examples built between 1962 and 1964.

Interestingly the car’s title has passed hands on more than one occasion with the latest owner, U.S.-based classic car collector Craig McCaw, purchasing it from Dutch-born businessman Eric Heerema, owner of Nyetimber vineyard in Sussex, southern England. Heerema, who purchased the green GTO nearly a decade ago for $8.5 million, will no doubt be pleased with the return on his investment.

And although spending a small fortune on a single car is likely out of reach for the vast majority of us, we can’t see McCaw hurting over his $35 million purchase either. McCaw was the co-founder McCaw Cellular, which he later sold to AT&T for cool $11.5 billion back in 1993.

In what could be credited as a clear testament to Maranello’s excellence in engineering, Stirling Moss’ 1962 250 GTO is but one of many big-ticket Ferrari’s sales to go through private transactions during the last two months. A Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa in which U.S. driver Phil Hill won the 1958 Le Mans 24-Hour race was recently sold by French collector Pierre Bardinon for about $25 million, while a Ferrari 250 GTO bought by U.K. television host Chris Evans for a handsome $18 million in 2010 was recently said to have sold somewhere in the region of $25-29 million.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/st...expensive-car/


I hadn't heard about this transaction yet, but yes Chris Evans is a huge and well known F-Car collector
 

ibmx2

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If I remember correctly only 208 (288 gto’s) where made
200 in rossa corso and the awesome 8 in silver that were supposed to be the race cars.
Correct me if I’am wrong

Great post
 

deloreandmc

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I'm not too sure about it's production count, but wikipedia states this:

"The Ferrari GTO was built to compete in the new Group B Race series and a minimum of 200 cars were required for homologation. However, after the death of Henri Toivonen and his co-driver Sergio Cresto in the 1986 Tour de Corse, the FIA disestablished the class, leaving just the Group A Rally championship. As a result, the 288 GTO never raced and all 272 cars built remained purely road cars."
 

ibmx2

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looked that up myself
But I was a assistant parts manager for a dealer back then and the owner had one , I believe it was the one road & track tested (drove it myself and a f40 too) I was told that was the production numbers . could be wrong the italians cant be bothered by trival things like production numbers
They are only concerned with the real ferrari's(the track cars) there words not mine .
On a interesting note back then I was told 60% of every road car sale went directly to the race program .
 

deloreandmc

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I totally agree with that thing about Ferrari, they don't really care about the road cars and have always been interested more in racing at that time.

That must have been one hell of an experience with the drives as well!
 

ibmx2

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the 288 was one of best rides i ever had tide with a N.A.R.T. 275 4 cam
do you know the even and odd chassis number thing they do
 

ibmx2

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The Italians thought It was bad luck to have odd numbers so
to separate(and bring luck to) competition cars from road cars. Competition cars had even numbers, whilst road cars had odd numbers. The last competition car was 512 M #1050. This lasted until # 75000, which was a Testarossa, until the factory began using even numbers on road cars as well ( I believe after the old man died ) . if you think a early car was a factory track car easy to tell even track car odd $**+ for the public
 

deloreandmc

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I guess that explains why their road cars were so unreliable haha!

But that is a very interesting fact that I never knew.... Always cool to learn something new.

To me there has always been something fascinating about Ferrari, mostly because of the fora behind them.
 

scenium12

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Well it happened again. A 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO just set another record for top selling price.





Most expensive car ever auctioned is sold for $34.65 million
Thursday, 14 Aug 2014 | 8:51 PM ET



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A 52-year-old Ferrari just smashed the record for the most expensive car ever sold at auction.

The 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO, with a somewhat dark past, was just sold by Bonhams for $34.65 million. That blew away the previous record, held by a Mercedes-Benz racer that sold last summer for $31.6 million including auction fees.

 

KBH

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Picture of the engine in my old 1965 330GT. Same V12 block as the GTO. The main difference ws the GTO had 6 2bbl Webers vs my 3 2bbl and dual overhead cams. And I imagine a higher compression ratio. Nothing like the sound of a Ferrari 12 cylinder engine purring.