As Marcel notes that when the factory finally made 47649 available in a sale on March 27 1990 the GTO finally escaped the factory. Some time later the GTO was shopped around and offered for sale in 2003 for a reported 1.3 million Euros. The price hampered a sale as it represented four times the price of a later production GTO. The GTO was finally auctioned off for 506,000 Euros in 2007. Perhaps a better reflection of the perceived value for an early GTO at that time. This picture below appears to be when offered 'for sale'. The MO lic plate is a curious coincidence with 84 the year followed by a 6? and finally the famous 288 model number for the GTO. This 288 model number was originally planned as a badge for the rear panel in the way that other Ferrari models featured a model number to. The "288" looked like the script style of a 328 model's badge but was never used during the regular production. Image Unavailable, Please Login
This photo was taken inside the showroom of then official dealer MOTOR S.p.A. on Via Emilia Est in Modena (close to the Carrozzeria Scaglietti plant). Marcel Massini
I was waiting for the first to give them between you and Marcel I personnaly have no interest in VIN numbers. only the beauty of the picture
I asked because I believe that one or both of those GTOs was sold by us from the USA to Hong Kong. No worries, numbers don't need to be for everybody, thanks for posting anyway!
a 288 GTO among the crowd at last year 70 th Modena display, saturday morning. ciao Image Unavailable, Please Login
Charles, the story is not exactly that: 47649 was registered on March 1990, but that was not the date that Factory sold it. It was sold by the factory one or two years before. ciao
You may want to verify the paperwork. Official documents for 47649 show the license plate issue date as 27 March 1990, the actual sales date as 1st October 1990 and the sales registration date as 16th October 1990. Motor S.p.A., domiciled at Via Emilia Est 1040 in Modena, was the first owner, there was nobody else before. Marcel Massini
I hear a 288 GTO is doing the Gumball Rally 3000 this year. London to Tokyo (flight from Italy to Japan). Demo day Covent Garden 4th Aug, start 5th Aug. Good on him. Maybe one of those high mileage ones that someone was talking about a week ago.
I'm sorry Marcel: you read in a wrong way Italian Motor Department documents. Motor SpA got the car from Ferrari in "1988 or 1989" (their words), they did the works the car needed, then they registered the car on March 27, 1990, with the plate MO846288. October 16, 1990 is just when the Italian Motor Department office registered on their archive the vehicle first registration; No sales in 1990, just the registration first plate by Motor, the first registered owner of the car. Facts are these ciao
here you are, Marcel: I think you know very well this guy and you know a bit of Italian. "Immatricolazione" is the only date you have to look for. I just wrote what he told me, no more no less (all recorded) I have to thank Bert De Boer as he shipped me the picture where Mario Vincenzi from Motor of Modena is driving the car around Modena during the 50 th celebrations in 1997. The world is very small ideed! ciao Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Thanks to both Marcel and Alberto for sharing their respective information here about *47649* with more details than are usually seen! Image Unavailable, Please Login
Thanks for your words, Charles: what a fantastic looking car the 288 GTO is! I don't know anything about most of the others 288 GTO produced: I just spent some time with the man that got 47649 from Ferrari and kept it for almost 20 years, so he told me several things about the real story of that car. I'm much more interested in the cars story BEFORE they leaved the factory and not after they leaved it, but in this case I did an exception as it's a very rumored car so I wanted to know exactly what happened after she leaved the factory, as I read a lot of things about this car that proved to be incomplete or incorrect. I'm lucky that I live here so close to the factory so it's not so much difficult for me going to the source and ask for some first hand info ciao
This is awesome! Wish there would be more info on other prototipos. To me they have more meaning on the history of the 288!
