More info on this car ? ( Nick cage..)

s/n 0783GT : a standard 250 GT Cabrio PF S1 now restored back to its original configuration.
Totally wrong competition features on your pics...

 

S1 cab. Not spider.

Regards,

Art S.

 

How COOl is Nick Cage ??? Just hate that bloke

 

Yeah, but who's the scary chick in the white tee shirt?

 

Probably some famous actress without her makeup.

 

His ex-wife Patrica Arquette perhaps.

T308

 

Hi, here is my first message here. Living in France, I am fond of these red things since ... years !

Sorry, I don't know the charming lady above ...

But if Cage's car is not a copy, it must be the one-off by Pinin Farina called "250 GT spider competizione" s/n 0663GT. Presented two weeks after the Geneva show in 1957, it was sold in Belgium to Léon Dernier.
Of course, nothing to see with competition, even if racing stuffs apparent.

 

Welcome to you on board.

See my post number 2 for the real s/n.

 

Thanks Aardi.

According to A.Prunet's book :
0783GT is a spider 250GT S1, sold to Porfirio Rubirosa, early 1957.

The same book and others say :
0663GT is the special PF "250GT spider competizione", sold to "Eldé".

So what ?

 

In a certain way, we can see 0783GT as a replica of 0663GT !!

Fortunately, 0783GT is again a PF cabrio S1 today.

 

Everything is in order, right s/n with one's right original body !

Thanks.

 

Hi Hubert,

I am fairly certain that the car pictured below does not carry the original body of 0663GT. Instead the body on the car pictured below is a replica/rebody built to look like 0663GT. Nothing to do with the original 0663GT body other than it looks similar.

-Jarrett

 

Thanks Jarrett.
Everything is in order now !

 

concerning 0663GT

i saw pics of it as a 2 seat, with one removable headrest (at drivers side) and wrap around windscreen

also saw pics of it with the passengers side covered with an alu 'tonneau' (don't know the english word) and a small 1 side windscreen

what configuration is 0663GT in now...?

 

These two first pictures were taken in 1957 at the Pinin Farina showroom, according to the tiled floor.
It's the same car. PF probably wanted to increase the racing style by presenting such a "single-seater" ... This road car was called Spider Competizione.

The third and fourth pics : two weeks before, at the Geneva show, PF introduced a well-known spider called sometimes Collins (as he bought and drove the car painted in green) with left door cut-out (0655GT).
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Great pics Hubert!

 

sorry for the topic kick, but I just read an article on Rubirosa in Cavallino #102 and it mentioned 0783GT, as being delivered in this configuration (with headrest and wrap-around window that is) to Rubirosa, so that would make these 'competition features' original and grants the car the label 'one off'.

 

Absolutely WRONG !!!!

 

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Are you saying the car wasn´t ordered and delivered to Rubirosa with the headrest and the wraparound window? Cause that is what Cavallino states.

 

Sorry if either of these comments is off-topic. (1) Otto Zipper, at one time an LA Ferrari dealer, once owned the car with the cut-down door. (2) I have a copy of "The Last Playboy", a book about Rubirosa, which I will send to the first person who tells me he is sending me $10. When I was a turn marshal at SoCal races, I saw Rubi driving. Not a good driver--his idea of going around a corner was to saw away at the wheel while being passed on both sides!

 

You have my address....SOLD!

That Rubirossa was wild!

 

He didn't do that Paris roundabout too well, either....................