Equipment
4963/400hp, 5-speed, Borrani wire wheels, Michelin XWX tires, woodrim steering wheel, Blaupunkt radio, power windows, air conditioning, leather upholstery. Comes with tool roll, documentation, and spares.
Condition
Lovely paint on a fascinating color that almost looks black at first glance, but the green really comes out when the light hits it. There is, however, some paint rubbed off the right B-pillar and some orange peel around the quarter windows. Pitting on the mirrors. Tidy but used wheels and underbody. Significant wear on the driver’s seat and two large blemishes in the middle of the dash. An attractive car and of course rare and rather fast, but also shows some flaws.
Market commentary
Sold by the original owner, Lord Hanson, at Brooks Ferrari sale at Gstaad in 2000 for $263,658, another successful investment by an important figure in British business in the Sixties. Bought there by Edgar Schermerhorn, it was next sold to Martin Gruss at RM's Maranello auction in 2009 for $968,048 (Euros 715,000 at the time, today's result in Euros is 1,895,700). It was offered at RM's online Monterey-Shift auction in 2020 where it was bid to $1,980,000 and has changed hands at least once more since then. A wonderfully-maintained, obsessively documented largely original example of Ferrari's exclusive flagship that is a sound value in this transaction even though it is a bit less than it would have brought had it sold at the reported high bid in 2020.