Equipment
Triple Webers, chrome Borrani wire wheels, Cinturato tires, locking filler cap, Nardi woodrim steering wheel, Veglia dash clock, La Chaperon pushbutton radio.
Condition
One of the stars of the no reserve lots offered by the Cayman Motor Museum The 98th of 353 cars built, it was sold new in Rome and was in the United States by the 1980s and was in the Cayman Museum by 1990 showing 87,659 km Today it shows dull chrome, tired but sound paint, lightly scratched window glass and a dusty but complete engine bay The interior is good and lightly worn and the bottoms of the exhaust tips are scraped and bent Certain and expensive mechanical freshening is ahead, but the appeal of this cars originality is obvious
Market commentary
The appeal of this Pf Coupe isnt originality; its been restored. It isnt history; much of it is missing. It isnt condition; the old restoration is showing its age inside and out, top and bottom. The appeal of this Pf Coupe is that it was offered without reserve and aggressively promoted, leading bidders to keep coming back for more well after passing any reasonable value for it. Its a charming old car, but one for which $400,000 would have been more in keeping with the current markets enthusiastic pricing of 250 GT Pf Coupes than the gold plated price it brought. Record prices do not set the curve until theyre reinforced by other similar results. This is an outlier on Pf Coupe values.