FERRARI 288 GTO

Now that is a pair of Pants for F-car land :
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Dan:

You are a most astute observer. But I too noticed the gentleman with the pink pants.

You will however note that he is not a GTO driver.

Thankfully so, because it is my carefully considered opinion that GTO drivers have generally acquired impeccable taste.

 

Great car, but when I raced it we never changed anything on the car so in fact it was better in the wet than in the dry.....
Remember sliding it around Colmar in long slides!
It was a car I really used (that's why it had the flies splattered all over the nose)
The F40 had the LM brake-ducts, slicks, modified exhaust and different shocks and springs to make it work better but still keep it drivable for the road.

Once tried three open pipes on the F40 on the road........nearly got arrested, but did I like it!

 

Haha, good one, but when we talk about taste and certain cars, I've got one here (although the car is a Veyron).
I took the pic at a Bugatti meeting at Monterey in 2003 and the guy with the snakeskin leather boots said he was going to get the first customer car for the US.
Must have been hard changing over from his white 3-speed automatic Cadillac convertible which he could drive wearing his boots..........
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LOL, classic!

This is a repost but this man has been known to wear some flashy pants... although not the day he collected his GTO.
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Mick and Dunn collecting 58149.
Marcel Massini

 

This is Mr. Lais of Stuttgart, Germany, official Ferrari dealer since many years (Lais-Power).
Marcel Massini

 

I wonder if he still has it....

 

The pink pants? LOL

 

Dan I meant to tell you that I believe it was your GTO that was tested in Italy by the late Stan Nowak & Ralph Lauren and featured in Cavallino number 26 (April 1985)...

 

and here are some pics of s/n 54799 taken at a Ferrari meeting at Lais Power in 2004. If I remember right, it was the presentation of the 612 Scaglietti.


Martin
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There should be 5 GTOs in the area of Stuttgart now. The 3 I posted above + the one Ferrari-Sammler posted (post 2169) + another one which a friend of mine spotted a couple of weeks ago (unfortunately no pics).
Does anybody know how many GTOs are currently in Germany?

Martin

 

Hardly, he has quite the collection of serious cars. I do agree that taste doesn’t come with money....

 

Thanks for posting Martin...

 

Jacques Swater's 288 GTO at Zandvoort June 15th 1985, barely 2 weeks old, Belgian-registered "338.X.3"

Copyright Marcel Massini.
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And 23 years later. Note blank plate still affixed to center console (who needs a radio?), and Megaphone pipes...
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If you want to wear pink pants, I won't try to stop you. If you must be tasteless, do it to yourself; just don't "modify" the car!

 

This car is in UK with "A11 GTO" plates. Don't know who the current owner is.

Olivier

 

I will wear any color of pant to drive a 288 gto

 

Interesting.

I have it down as originally EE.190.AK, then "B 11 GTO"...

 

Friend of mine told me that Jim Lyons from the Sports Car Company, a reputable dealer in California, predicted that 288GTO prices will be in the low $200K range within the next twelve to eighteen months.

 

Olivier
Disagree. The plate is "B 11 GTO" not "A 11 GTO". Must be a typo.
Marcel Massini

 

The car is listed in the 1998 UK FOC Owners register as A11 GTO.
Do we have pictures?

Paul

 

Thats what I thought.

The only pic I have ever seen is the one posted here.

Although I do believe I have seen the car in person. In early 1986 in London I saw Mick Jagger driving this car at night heading up Sloane street in Knightsbridge with a lady passenger. It was the second GTO I saw in person.

 

Here is "A 11 GTO".

Now what chassis number is this car? It was at Le Mans this year, not driven by Jagger...
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