Celebrity owned Ferrari 365 GTS/4 Daytona Spider at auction Dec 10th

FYI- A good Christmas gift suggestion for someone here!

the Daytona was sold to its first owner of record, James Levitt of Beverly Hills, California, the proprietor of an eponymous furniture company.

Mr. Levitt retained possession of the 365 for three years before selling the car in 1976 to one of the decade’s most legendary showmen, the death-defying motorcycle stuntman Robert Craig “Evel” Knievel, who had already owned another Daytona Spider, chassis number 14737. Due to the many injuries Mr. Knievel had suffered over the years, he reportedly experienced great difficulty getting in and out of the Ferrari, and consequently he sold the car later that year to the famous disc jockey Frankie Crocker.

A showman in his own right, Mr. Crocker was a Manhattan-based radio DJ who helped pioneer the urban contemporary format, incorporating R&B, soul, and disco into his playlists before switching to a rock and roll station. Noted for helping to “break” a wide variety of new musical acts, ranging from Blondie and Madonna to Grace Jones, Manu Dibango, and Bob Marley, Mr. Crocker also managed to parlay his radio celebrity into bit parts in several movies, including the “blaxploitation” film Cleopatra Jones and the comedy Five on the Black Hand Side. He later moved to Beverly Hills, California, as registrations on file reflect, and during a service at Hollywood Sports Cars in March 1986 an odometer reading reflected 22,571 miles of use.

Mr. Crocker owned the Ferrari for nearly 20 years, along the way commissioning a repaint by the noted Bill DeCarr, the Southern California-based body specialist whose personally mixed day-glo paint shades became a thing of legend among local car enthusiasts. In January 1997 the Daytona was acquired by Terry Price of Gazelle, California, and he sold the spider a few years later to the legendary Major League Baseball slugger (and car collector in his own right), Mr. October himself, the great Reggie Jackson.​

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Chassis 16835

https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/mi22/miami/lots/r0028-1973-ferrari-365-gts4-daytona-spider-by-scaglietti/1296532

 

I question if the James Levitt as the original owner is related to Levitt furniture. At the time there was a Jim Levitt is the FOC that was of the Levitt home building family. Would later own one of the Daytona Comp cars. "Jumping Jimmy Levitt".

 

i think the furniture guy *always* spelled his name with one T and a Z

 

IIRC, back in the day, LEV was the stock symbol for the company. I used to trade calls in them.

 

so beautiful, makes me want to cut the top off mine
nice set of books and tools.

 

Another fantastic description from an auction company. They didn't get past the first sentence without a mistake.

 

Don’t do it
Coupes always look best

 

$2,205,000 USD | Sold

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Do you like replicas, fakes ?

 

i like beautiful cars. and i was being figurative.

 

and speaking of spelling everyone almost always seems to want to add an "s".

Hollywood Sports Cars in March 1986 an odometer reading reflected 22,571 miles of use.

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1969 *12301*

 

Did celebrity Tom s own this .. .? I remember all the unique details on this early Daytona


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