Solved - NEH 3006: Ferrari 275 GTB Coupé Speciale SEFAC - 1963

[Carnut]

What is this car and exactly who created it, when and why - for 1 point?:

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[Carnut]

Won't last long with the Experts, I'm sure..

[frederick59]

Ferrari 250 GTO 64,

[Carnut]

Ferrari 250 GTO 64,

It's a Ferrari of course, but not a 250 GTO 64; that would be a bit too easy..!

[ropat53]

It looks like a Ferrari 275 GTB/4 N.A.R.T. Spyder with a hardtop.

American Ferrari dealer, Luigi Chinetti asked Sergio Scaglietti and Enzo Ferrari to build a few Spyder versions of the 275 GTB/4,
Only 10 were built by Scaglietti in 1967 and 1968.

[Carnut]

It looks like a Ferrari 275 GTB/4 N.A.R.T. Spyder with a hardtop.

American Ferrari dealer, Luigi Chinetti asked Sergio Scaglietti and Enzo Ferrari to build a few Spyder versions of the 275 GTB/4,
Only 10 were built by Scaglietti in 1967 and 1968.

And when my younger son asked me if I could have any car in the world regardless of the price what would it be, that was what I said I would have!

But this isn't one of them..

[WayneB]

1963 Ferrari 275 GTB  SEFAC.
Its the first 275 GTB built (prototype), on a 250 GT chassis/drivetrain.
Differs in looks from its later sisters as it has the 250 LM style tunneled back window treatment.

[Carnut]

1963 Ferrari 275 GTB  SEFAC.
Its the first 275 GTB built (prototype), on a 250 GT chassis/drivetrain.
Differs in looks from its later sisters as it has the 250 LM style tunneled back window treatment.

That's the car, yes.  It was a project of SEFAC (Societa Esercizio Fabbriche Automobili e Corse), set up by Enzo Ferrari and Michel Paul Cavallier, a car-mad French industrialist, in 1960 to further new projects, and was, as you say, the first 275 GTB prototype.

The similarity of this car to the 250 Lusso, the 250 LM and the 250 GTO 64 can be seen in the rear, although it pre-dated the GTO and was just 5 chassis later than the first 250 LM (its chassis number is #05161).

It was badly damaged in a roll at Fiorano in 1963 and was rebuilt into a convertible, spending much of its life in the Sacramento, California area.  But in the 1990s it returned to Europe and was restored to its original coupé style.

Well done!

[D-type]

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The similarity of this car to the 250 Lusso, the 250 LM and the 250 GTO 64 can be seen in the rear, although it pre-dated the GTO and was just 5 chassis later than the first 250 LM (its chassis number is #05161).

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Well done!

I'm puzzled.  The chronology doesn't fit.  The first 250 GTO, the 250 GT with the Testa Rossa engine,  was in 1962 while the 250 LM, the rear-engined coupé that Ferrari tried to argue was a development of the 250 GT series, dates from 1963.  Or am I getting my Ferrari models mixed up?

[Carnut]

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The similarity of this car to the 250 Lusso, the 250 LM and the 250 GTO 64 can be seen in the rear, although it pre-dated the GTO and was just 5 chassis later than the first 250 LM (its chassis number is #05161).

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Well done!

I'm puzzled.  The chronology doesn't fit.  The first 250 GTO, the 250 GT with the Testa Rossa engine,  was in 1962 while the 250 LM, the rear-engined coupé that Ferrari tried to argue was a development of the 250 GT series, dates from 1963.  Or am I getting my Ferrari models mixed up?

Perhaps you are.  As I said the first 250 LM was just 5 chassis earlier, in 1963, as is the puzzle car.
The 250 GTO 64 didn't appear until one year leater, 1964; perhaps you are getting confused with the original 250 GTO which dates from 1962?  The one I'm referring to, the 64, is pictured below and you can see the similarities:

[WayneB]

I think some of the confusion arises from the fact that the 1963 250 GTO sn 4399GT (Colonel Ronnie Hoare, Maranello Concessionaires) was crashed and rebodied by Scaglietti in the style of the mid engine 250 LM in 1964.
It was the first 250 GTO to be rebodied in the LM or series 2 style (I think it was one of 4 in total)

Great car, I was lucky enough to sit in it when Sir Anthony Bamford bought it over to Canada to race about 9 years ago.

[Carnut]

Another one for Iluvatar's Museum of Rare Ferraris?