212 body

Per ad: THE CHASSIS ENGINE WAS USED TO BUILD A BEAUTIFUL 212 TOURING BARCHETTA.

 

Well, let´s hope this injustice can be corrected. Whoever thought it was a good idea anyway?

 

Criminal.

What more do you need to know:

"YOU COULD FIT AN AMERICAN ENGINE AND CHASSIS AND HAVE A HALF MILLION DOLLAR LOOK AT THE COUNTRY CLUB."

I believe this is the car? Note the chassis number is claimed for the Barchetta.
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Interesting, from the RM description of the "barchetta"

In addition, the car is offered complete with its original Pinin Farina Inter Coupé bodywork, which remains in excellent condition from a previous restoration and includes the original glazing and the interior components that were not used during the conversion to the Touring Barchetta coachwork.

 

The car has been sold with both bodies, a good decision in order to keep the originality at arm's length. Now the body will be divorced from the rest of the car, with the result that the originality of #0259E will be lost forever! Stupid, because I'm sure that the car's value with both bodies is higher than the sum of both items separately.

 

Sold again by RM in 2009, at Monterey. Original body again offered with the "barchetta."
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It is a sin to call that "thing" a Touring Barchetta - that's how AWFUL it looks and that's why it keeps coming back into market time after time.

Selling the body off separately is a VERY VERY VERY stupid thing to do.

That body should be installed back into that chassis to convert the mongrel back into a wonderful old car again.

Best wishes, Kare

 

"A beautiful barchetta" !!!! At least, the seller on ebay has a fantastic sense of humor when you see the horror he's talking to...

 

For both the clone (with correct engine) and the body, maybe not too hideous. You could put the real car back together, and then take the "Touring" body, install it on a golf cart and, as the eBay seller suggests, put on a show "at the country club."

 

Question: What is original of this car. As far as I know even the enginenumber is from an other car (0553GT).

Just sad that someone did this. The car was in 1998 restored.

Xander

 

Wow, I am not a big connaisseur of the Touring Barchetta's but even to me that thing looks wrong in so many ways.

 

+1, although i'd be curious to know if the Ebay seller even owns the chassis. maybe theyve been split since 09.

 

We could put the vintage Ferrari back together, and put the Barchetta replica on that Bentley chassis I see parked across the drive.....

Marshall Texas......


I met a girl from there once, on the beach in Galveston.....the rest of the story is X rated.

 

Strange, the ideas of some individuals. At the recent Amelia concourso, a sister car to this Pinin Farina was nominated and took out the "Peoples Choice". PF's will increase in value and his barchetta will devalue in the longer term. I entirely agree with Aardy, the car should be reassembled.

 

We've talked about stupid people over and over, every time a 330 or a GTE has turned up as a mongrel. But honestly, the guy that thought of this one must earn some kind of a high ranking award like "king of fools", or "world class idiot", or something distinguished like that.

john

 

I post this only for reference at a later date (when auction will not come up any more)

 

here we go again - hope the pictures come up this time.
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Again, this is pure vandalism from some stupid guys.

 

Anything to try and make some $$.

Another example that having money and brains don't always go together.

He wins the Darwin-award of the car-world.

 

Asked that question via eBay. no reply yet.

 

As I recall, the car may have come from the Brooke Stevens Collection in Michagan without a powertrain, 10 + years ago. Advertised in Hemmings

A Fchatter got the PF coupe engine that was sitting next to the car at the time.
$14,000 as I believe.

 

With 3D scanning and printing, we shouldn't have too many terrible replica bodies anymore.

I can see what the owner was after. The Touring Barchetta and Berlinetta of that period is so damn gorgeous.