Interesting items for sale. To bad I already bought generic intercoolers for my supercharged 308 GTO lookalike. These were 900 euro for the pair. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Italian registered "815158.BA" at the 50th Annivesario in Rome, 1997 Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Almost Dennis, but not quite. Group B was canceled before the GTO Evoluzione that Ferrari SpA built could be put to competitive use. Accordingly, there was no failure. The 288 GTO was built to satisfy FIA homologation requirements that 200 road cars had to be built within a 12 month span in order for Group B certification to be issued (it was issued by the FIA for the GTO on the 1st of June 1985), followed by 20 evolution examples for racing. As we all know only half-a-dozen GTO Evoluziones were built, for a race class that had by then been disbanded. Group B was canceled because the FIA felt that the cars had become too powerful, this action taken following the horrific events involving the Lancia 037 of Attilio Bettega, the Lancia S4 of Henri Toivonen, and the Ford RS200 of Joaquim Santos. Drivers and spectators alike sacrificed their lives to this conclusion. The 288 GTO and especially the GTO Evoluzione symbolize the end of a glorious motorsports era.
I used failed for canceled. It is a shame that the Giants in the Motorsports Field, Ferrari and Porsche, were not able to show off the 288 GTO and the 959 on the field of battle. These were my HS years, and thus would have been truly formative in my motorsports appreciation. Took another decade for me to begin to really appreciate rally racing due to the cancellation of Group B.
This the only 288 GTO that lives in New Zealand owned by Paul H and he plans to bring it to our little GTO Reunion in California... Image Unavailable, Please Login
As said many times before: a truly beautiful car! Doesn't sound too expensive: EUR 459K, does it? Some more pics to follow. Look at those exhausts! I guess these cars are not just offered by one vendor, but may be offered by two or even three different vendors? Gr. Martin Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
nice pics an other with megafono on tks for sharing do you have more of that nice and rare countach 5000S in luci del bosco ?
Aaarrrrg! Gutted why didnt you tell me Greg, assuming it was a meet? I still have not seen a GTO since i got my digital camera back in 2005, and have been waiting to digitize one, if you see what i mean.
You are welcome [nerd on] I recognise the number plate- was it used for some magazine shoots? [/nerd off] Hi Al - It was a last minute thing, took my son along expecting 'old bangers' [as he calls them] and saw an F40, 288GTO, 360CS, 355 F1 amongst the gathering of classics
