A Ferrari 250 GTO – chassis 3851 GT from the Violati Collection – is hitting Bonhams Quail event in California next month. But how high will the price go?
The last Ferrari 250 GTO Series 1 to hit auction rooms in 2012, fetched a remarkable $35 million, and last year another 250 GTO – chassis #5111 – was sold in a private deal thought to be worth $52 million. And now another Series 1 250 GTO is about to hit the sale room.
Ferrari 250 GTO #3851 GT has long been in possession of the Violati family and housed in the Maranello Rosso Collection on display in Italy.
When Fabrizio Violati died a few years ago, the family put the entire collection up for sale but never managed to find a buyer, perhaps because they would only sell the entire collection – and the museum building – intact. And it was quite a collection.
Comprising of more than 30 classic Ferraris and a huge number of Abarths, no one was prepared to come up with the asking price, a price that grew by the day as the prize of the collection – the Ferrari 250 GTO – grew in value. When we last heard, the asking price was well north of $100 million.
But either the Violati family has had a change of heart and decided to split the collection up, or someone has finally stepped in, snapped up the whole collection and decided to start punting the cars out to auction rooms.
Whichever it is, Fabrizio Violati’s Ferrari 250 GTO will hit the auction room at Bonhams sale in Quail on August 14th, and there’s every expectation it could fetch a world record price. Somewhere upwards of $60 million seems not unlikely.
So if you’ve got pockets deep enough to acquire one of just 33 Series 1 Ferrari GTOs, you’d better grab the Bonhams catalogue for Quail, get your cash in the right place and dig deep.
But just in case a 250 GTO is out of your price bracket – and it is for all but a handful of collectors around the world – we’ve listed all the Ferrari’s in the Fabrizio Violati collection below, because if the 250 GTO is hitting the auction room there’s a fair chance a number of these will be too before long (if some haven’t already).
Fabrizio Violati/Maranello Rosso Collection Ferrari
- 1951 Ferrari 195 S Coupe Vignale
- 1953 Ferrari 250MM PF Berlinetta
- 1955 Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Competizione
- 1957 Ferrari 250 FT PF SI Cabrio
- 1956 Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Competizione
- 1959 Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Competizione ‘Interim’
- 1959 Ferrari 250 GT PF Coupe
- 1960 Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Competizione ‘Passo Corto’
- 1962 Ferrari 250 GTE 2+2 Coupe
- 1962 Ferrari 250 GT PF Coupe Aerodynamico ‘Passo Corto’
- 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO
- 1963 Ferrari 250 GT Lusso
- 1965 Ferrari 275 GTB
- 1964 Ferrari 330 GT 2+2
- 1966 Ferrari 330 GT 2+2
- 1968 Ferrari 330 GTC
- 1968 Ferrari 365 GTC
- 1969 Ferrari 365 GT 2+2
- 1970 Ferrari 365 GTB/4
- 1971 Ferrari 365 GTC/4
- 1973 Ferrari 365 GT4 2+2
- 1987 Ferrari F40
- 1967 Ferrari Dino 206 GT
- 1970 Ferrari Dino 246 GT
- 1976 Ferrari Dino 208 GT4
- 1968 Ferrari Dino 246 Tasman
- 1978 Ferrari 312 T3
- 1963 Ferrari 330 P
- 1965 Ferrari 365 P2/3
- 1969 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Competizione Conv.
- 1981 Ferrari 512 BB/LM
- 1970 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Competizione Conv.
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