Ferrari 250 GTO in Virginia?

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Could very well be...the pictures I compared were pretty good. Only difference that jumped out to me was the to little silver "balls" over the license plate (most likely liscense plate lights) were spaced a little farther apart than other pictures.

The fact that there was a 575 SA that has the same of vanity plate driving with it could add some legitimacy too it also...maybe the two were out for a drive?

Someone here will have better than info than this I know, but I'd say yeah. Good spot!!

 

Was hopin someone like you would chime in....
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LOL, someone like me...! That's priceless... Don't let the vintage guys see you say that, they'll rip me apart - actually, they're too classy for that, but they could if they wanted to. I know next to nothing about the vintage stuff.

Unfortunately, I can't tell if it's a real GTO or not. Someone e-mailed me that second picture a few days ago and asked me; I told them to post in the vintage section. If they did, I don't know.

There's a chance that it's real since there's another Ferrari in the next lane over with similar plates (TWS GTO and TWS SA).

 

Well then, your vast Enzo knowledge just tricked me into believing you knew everything about everything in the world of Ferrari

Yep.

Also, this pic seems to match up pretty well to me...
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Vast Enzo knowledge - that, too, is a stretch.

Two different cars. But I believe the car on VA plates is a genuine GTO.

 

I don't ... rear window is different shape, and the distance between the spoiler versus bottom of rear window is off ... but of course slightly different photo angles.

But the rear window width is definitely different.
Pete

 

Try to find out something about the license plates. Clearly the 550 Barchetta in the next lane belongs to the same owner/group, since both plates start with 'TWS'.

 

Lester, that's a Superamerica, not a Barchetta.


Pete, this is why I'm horrible at identifying older cars and determining whether or not something like this is real. Because back then, the cars weren't 'cookie cuttered' like they are now.

 

Yeah, my mistake. That helps me read the license plate, 'TWS SA.' It gives more weight to the claim the the GTO is real.

 

Real or replica I would has crashed my car!

 

Plate on the GTO is from South Carolina. However the plate on the 575 Superamerica is from Illinois.

 

Thread needs to be moved to the Vintage section ... would have had an answer on the 2nd post!

Best
Pete

 

Good call Pete! Still awaiting my approval for mod status but atleast I have another forum to mod, damn trollies!!!!

 

Including chassis number etc in case it is indeed the real thing.

 

I think that it is a fake, it just looks a littel "off" to me. The rear looks a little too rounded relative to the picture of the one that's known to be real. Additionally, the lights over the plate look out of place from other pictures...

 

Its the best GTO reproduction you will ever see. It and Superamerica are owned by same individual. Check out this thread to see more pictures of the car (s).

http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=240120&page=2

The Bobert

 

Virtually positive it's not the real-deal.

CW

 

Here it is carrying a SC vintage plate similar to my dino:

http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=193260&highlight=sc+antique

 

You make an interesting point in that thread regarding the relative lack of expense for a car on vintage plates versus a car on regular plates - makes me wonder why the owner would switch back to regular plates. Is the personalized plate that important to him?!

 

That rear is way too fat.

 

If I went to see a doctor and told him that there is this web-forum and some dude from US just posted a pic of a car rolling down a road somewhere there and after looking at it for a while a serial number just popped out of my head... he would probably call in the people with white jackets they would lock me in. It is even scarier to think that they might make a movie out of me, where I would driven around in a yellow Buick... and yes I also know all the phone numbers around where I live. I just don't know who they belong to...

Best wishes, Kare

PS: that is 1273 - a Greg Jones replica.

 

It used to be a real Ferrari 250 GTE.