Agreed it was from a previous era where the factory's production area was more cluttered and less organized. That said, the GTO was an FIA Homologation special where they wanted to get the first 200 cars built ASAP, so, they assembled these wherever they could within the factory, as opposed to on a dedicated assembly line, so you often see images of the GTO being assembled amongst Mondials, Testarossas & 400is Image Unavailable, Please Login
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At first, I thought it was 308 production line, but at looking better it d possible to read the logo Gtobin the third car. Yes Alberto, I m agree with you, but at this time - if I remember well - in Geneva one Ferrari commercial refused to sell a car to someone who wants speculated. The best GTO picture, is certainly this one made for the French magasine Auto hebdo "spécial Ferrari" page 68. If you haven't, I will provide you. Ciao
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Thank you very much, Christian. I already saw all those pictures many times, but they are still great, like the one with the GTO in the snow on the lorry. I don't need them as they are all pictures with a Copyright and today better not facing a copyright problem: Ferrari is very severe, today. For what I know, 288 GTO were built quickly as they were all already sold, not because of the B Group, as the 288 GTO Evo program (B group racing) was a bit late so they had all the time they needed. Then they were just 272, that means less than 8% of the Ferrari year production at the time (going by memory they were more or less 3500 cars in 1984), so no problem at all to produce such a low number of cars. ciao
And delivery time....too long! +/- 2 years But it was normal, during the F40 delivery time makes increase very faaaast...it was the case to say. Mr Daniel Marin (French importer, director general of Pozzy France) said it was unthinkable, to have this delay of delivery. I think my first vision for the 288 Gto was in foundation Cartier. One examplar was integrate in the exposition. 87/88 I know someone who gets better pictures than mine. I will contact him, he s a very cool guy.
Yes, and they were 2366 in 1983: Reading figures on a book is easy, like reading how many workers Ferrari had in 1984: 1605 workers. I just wrote a more or less figure going with my memory. But the focus is another: The GTO production numbers were low if compared to the whole production numbers. Ciao
Personally I have always believed that Ferrari was Italian, not American, and still less Swiss. The error to want an authentic car, and having to go through foreign intermediaries, for me it s a mistake. Ferrari should review and control this market which ultimately remains opaque, made direct and indirect commission. Customer problems etc...time for Italy to recuperate jobs, and control of his product. Finally, yes Alfredo, memory is vital and daily exercise, necessary.
I prefer from far a Italian plate typo MO ..... Incomparable! Many vintage cars used them. I want to say: Italia First!
Myself I prefer an EE (Escursionisti Esteri) plate especially if it's the same one the first owner used to collect the car from Ferrari SpA Image Unavailable, Please Login
