250 GTE ...HOW MANY REMAIN ?

it’s good to see people, enjoying, and using these chassis that would’ve been in the dump and gone forever only parted out never to run again


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True but in some cases the Chassis are cut up, then an already heart-over-wallet decision becomes even more so. Need to find people with big wallets and hearts even bigger.

 

Despite your statement, several of the cars cut up to become silly replicas were not even close to being write-offs.

 

It is my hope that as the A list 250’s grow to stratospheric levels and beyond the practical reach of many , quality gte,s , etc will be cherished now for similar driving characteristics which for the most part is why we love the brand.!

 

I would hope so too, but history and reality has shown us different.
Most owners of any vintage cars, let alone vintage Ferraris, even fake ones, don’t really drive them that much or as intended.
How often an average GTO, SWB (fake or real) or even GTE or PF Coupe owner loads up his/her car with luggage for few hundred mile (or longer) weekend or week long road trips (& not part of some organized group event or show) ?
You know, just for fun and pleasure of driving.

 

Not several, many.

 

Who today is driving around without the need to go from A to B , for the sheer pleasure of driving, vintage or modern sports car. Very few and they are branded as criminal against the environment on top!

 

As someone who (truly) enjoys driving vintage cars for the pure pleasures of them and has averaged 5K-10K with them in past 4+ decades, I know what you’re saying.
It has been a very rare (almost non-existent) occasion I encounter likeminded enthusiasts on the roads, whether just on a day drives or weeks long (Grand Touring) vacation travels.

OTOH, I’ve never felt criminally branded or viewed, not even in my open exhaust/- wheel early thirties hot rod.
If anything, majority of everyday folks I/we encounter always seem intrigued and thrilled, want to ask questions and most are just amazed that I/we actually drive/travel in 50-100 year old cars on our own, without being a part of some organized event/show.

Many of my lifelong vintage car enthusiast friends in Europe travel (or used to) with their 50+ y.o. cars relatively extensively all over Europe and/or UK, but I can’t recall them having complained about being treated poorly.

I know it seems like a cliché, but if I had a SWB, 6C1750 Zagato Spdr or alike, I’d probably would drive it as much and in the way I do and always have all my other vintage cars.

 

I recently discovered this old girl in storage for nearly forty years. There are plans to restore her.
Originally Red/Black
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its easy to take the etype to the grocery store. no sweat. much different with a daytona or ‘66 shelby gt350. maybe its just psychological.

 

I hope it’s a sympathetic restoration to retain patina.

 

I spent 20 years restoring my GTE (work sped up after the kids got out of college...), so there was no way that I was not going to drive it when it was "done"! I live in Los Angeles so 100 miles up to Santa Barbara or down to San Diego is a regular thing. The car is a great open road cruiser and still fun on the twisty roads through Malibu or to the wineries where I can come home with wine in my trunk! People regularly pull alongside the car to take a look or ask questions at signals as the car does not look like any Ferrari they have ever seen. I am having a blast with my GTE, sunny weather or not, so keep an I out for us if you are ever in LA.

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He is very proud of the Champagne paint work and would like to leave it as is. He painted the car himself, it’s a Cadillac color.
The interior is very rough as are the mechanicals.
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Is the original engine still there? There is a yellow SWB that has been reported as using that Serial Number.

 

The engine was too dirty and poorly lit garage to see.

 

Just tell the guys it is a Volvo, or an early 60s Tesla.....

Marcel Massini

 

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That won't be hard. As it is, when buying parts I always say I am restoring an old Fiat...

 

Isn’t that what KIAs, Teslas & all modern SUVs, etc are for ?
I’ve always thought E-Types being touring/travel cars, just like Daytona, et. al.

 

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this etype was my first car at 15 1/2, so it was my daily driver thru high school, college and dental school until i could afford something better

 

For 2745 GT I have the following:

6° Spa Ferrari days (08.05.1994)
8° Trophée des Ardennes (12.06.1994)
7° Spa Ferrari days (08.05.1995)
10° Trophée des Ardennes (12.05.1996)

All events at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit and 2745 GT always listed as 250 GTE.

 

I have:

05/03/1996 Spa Ferrari Days, Edmund Perry, Yellow on Black SWB, LP FUP 687 (From Jean-Luis Bezemer)
04/28/2000 Spa Ferrari Days, Edmund Perry, Yellow on Black SWB, LP FUP 687
12/31/2004 Seen as a Yello on Black SWB with LP FUP 687
09/22/2013 for sale on Anamera, SWB "Reconstruction" by Giordannengo

Note that two of my entries were duplicates, so actually have these four, not five. This information was entered before I took over the register, so I do not have as much information as I would like.If anyone has more information from the Anamera sale, that would be very helpful

 

I have to correct myself

2745 GT was indeed listed in my personal database as 250 GTE, but for the 12.06.1994 and 12.05.1996 events with the remark "Replica 250 GT SWB on 250 GTE chassis".
It is safe to assume it was already a SWB replica on the first event in May 1994.

 

The current owner of the GTE has had it for over forty years as a GTE. He tells me he once took it on an extended road trip to Canada and back.
In the early eighties it had coolant in the oil and was parked in the spot it remains today. He started to dismantle the top end and lost interest but everything is there on a bench next to the car.
I find it hard to believe the car was ever a 250SWB.