Yes, I am guilty of holding back in some of my posts, and I was just thinking about that last night! LOL...
Someone asked about the light bulb kit within the GTO's tool kit (Caley, I think?) and its illustrated here... Image Unavailable, Please Login
Check this one out. Spotted in Barcelona: http://www.klassiekergespot.nl/viewimages.php?id=1214748364822012009144802 Gr. Martin
Hi, I thought Mr. Lepeltier owned 250SWB # 2667? Maybe my mistake, but maybe also he 2 at different times?
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Finally some big important news in the morning paper. Seems like we have a 288 GTO in Finland, and have had for quite some time. Atleast I have missed it, but maybe it was in you guys knowledge allready. And the owner is no one less but Juha Kankkunen (ex. rally driver) and he according to the paper also has a F40, 512BBi, 512tr, 308gts. I have heard rumors of these kind of collections in Finland, but never any "confirmed" (the newspaper is a daily tabloid...) Sorry, no pics. Just thought I'd share. http://www.iltasanomat.fi/viihde/uutinen.asp?id=1638354
Lepeltier got his new 288 GTO #53769 on the 7th January 1985 from SAVAF (Société Anonyme pour la Vente des Automobiles Ferrari), the official Ferrari importer for Switzerland, based in Geneva. He paid Swiss Francs 170'000. The crime happened in Geneva on the 19th April 1990. Lepeltier was 57 years old. The Lepeltier family kept all the cars until 2003. Bonhams sold all the cars (14 Ferraris), on behalf of the Geneva bankruptcy court, on 19th December 2003 at Hotel Palace in Gstaad, Switzerland. At the time the 288 GTO showed 30'924 kms on the odometer. Here are 3 photos. COPYRIGHT MARCEL MASSINI Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
The 30,xxxx km car, interstingly, has had the oil pressure switch/line modification(see last picture)-a rather rare factory update, and is almost always(in my experience at any rate,) on cars which had accumulated "hi" miles 'early on' in their life. ("High miles" in 288 terms at any rate!) A bit of a sign that an owner used his GTO as it was intended.... With respect to the Finland cars...they ARE real-I've an associate who has actually sat in a couple of them...the pictures posted are NOT the cars-those turbo cars are special, SPECIAL cars....according to the man who saw them and sat in them.... The owner at that time was-after all-a former 4 TIME WORLD RALLY CHAMPION...and some of the cars were rumored to have been gifts from FIAT/Agnelli himself! ALL of this story stuff is.....second hand here-say "rumor"... the cars, however, ARE real....
Thanks for sharing that. No surprise that Juha Kankkunen has a 288 GTO as he was a Group B stalwart...
Lepeltier GTO description by Bonhams http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=EUR&screen=lotdetailsNoFlash&iSaleItemNo=1408194&iSaleNo=10807&iSaleSectionNo=3 Bonhams 2003 auction here : http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=EUR&screen=catalogue&iSaleNo=10807 Thank's to Bonhams to keep archives 5 years later on their website.....-)
Thanks for that Gregory. The writer of the description who used to work for Bonhams should have done his research to know that more than 200 examples of the GTO were built.... or more likely, he was trying to make the car appear more rare to uninitiated bidders! I love reading auction descriptions. Great entertainment.
Mexican GTO at track-day recently... I suppose I will have to go down there to get the chassis number Image Unavailable, Please Login
