FERRARI 288 GTO

Steve,
Thanks for that info. It is good to know that the holes serve a purpose in cooling the headers. It does not seem to be the most integrated scoop... but function over form I guess.

 

I find the scoops to be one of the deliciously subtle details of the GTO's bodywork in keeping with what the car is all about. Subtlety.

Joe
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I kind of like the scoops. I think it adds aggression to very pretty "coke bottle" lines. Not quite as nice looking as an SV, but close and a heck of lot faster and more reliable.

Steve

 

Agree. Never get tired of the lines and the details only grow more and more on me with time

 

Yes nothing tops an SV to look at. That combination of low and swoopy muscle-bound elegance is impossibly beautiful.

We will have to get you back in one again...

Joe
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One of the finest 288 GTOs Ive seen. The 276th car, it is just 2 cars from the end of production and carries chassis number 58339.

Joe
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Does chassis number 4880 sound familiar?
What colors was it? Body/wheels & sills/interior?

Joe
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Thats real Italian Muscle!

Great pics!



Best,
Jon

 

I thought that they only made 272, plus the yellow development car....??

 

279 total.

The yellow car is one of the pre-production prototypes built in red (repainted yellow by Pininfarina Im told) and it is one of 6 pre-production prototypes included in the 279 number.

Joe
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This car was serviced and restored by both of our Ferrari techs. It was a nice car to begin with, but received a serious amount of detail work. This 288 belonged to one of my best friends who traded his F40 for this 288, it received numerous awards at Monterey and Cavallino.

The car was sold about 3 years ago.

Chris

www.rossomotorsports.com

 

I simply love the 288GTO. In Maranello two years ago I couldn't stop looking at it in The Galleria...

Gr. Martin

 

My understanding was that the other 5 development cars "ceased to be" GTOs. I think a couple were crash tested and the others were used as GTO EVO or F40 development cars.

So I think that the 272 + 1 number is generally considered correct for the count of road cars.

However as with F50s and Enzos, who's to say whether they really made a few other cars - I wonder how many are on Marcel's list?

 

Yes 273 road cars, and who knows what happened tro the 6 pre-production cars...

Joe
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And some prototypes were not really "GTOs" at all, they were 308s modified to research/test various aspects of the upcoming car. The VINs of these are in various GTO books that are not in front of me at the moment. The 273 number is generally accepted production number. That said, it is Ferrari that has a habit of producing more than one car for VIN.

Steve

 

Dan, I am 100% sure more cars were made of all the variants of Ferrari Supercar than the production registers show. Accordingly, for GTOs we can say "at least" 273 production cars were made...

Joe
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100% sure? It should be possible then to state with more precision than "at least"???

 

DM18, for example it is known that there are more F50 and Enzo than the official factory number originally given. But just because some have discovered a few extra chassis number does not mean they have discovered ALL the extra cars. So "at least" serves a purpose.

Joe
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With Ferrari, being vague is the best you're going to get. We're talking about a company that has used the same VIN on more than one car of the same model. Never mind all the "after production" cars of a particular model that actually get a different VIN. If Ferrari were a US company, I'm sure a few Treasury Department agents would have been wondering about the multiple use of the same VIN. Gee, I wonder why someone would do that....

Steve

 

I rest my case.

Joe
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Thank you for the clarification

 

Well this moment will have to wait; the car was not present at our show. I’m not sure why, but I will now continue to wait to see this beauty in real life.

 

Dear Joe,

I have noticed that you are a friend of details, so a question regarding this post seems obvious. Beeing a GTO owner I am in posession of quite a lot of literature about this car, and everywhere - including my factory contacts - it is noted that the no of produced cars are 272 or 273 depending on how you consider the yellow prototype. The very beautiful car you are referring to is said to be the 276th car and 2 from end of production, which will make up 288 cars. As you say, close, but not spot on. But comments would of course be interesting!

Kind regards, Caley

 

Joe,

I can't wait for the visual calculas on this.

I'm not even sure Newton could have figured out Ferrari's math.

Steve

 

Steve,

He wouldnt have attempted...

Joe
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