Ferrari Sells For Record $38 million

Highlights
A red 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO Berlinetta, one of only a handful, was snapped up for $38.1 million in California, becoming the most expensive car ever sold at an auction. The previous record was held by a 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196R Formula 1 model bought in Britain last year for $30 million.
The Ferrari, which has a checkered past, was auctioned at Monterey Car Week near San Francisco on Thursday and is from the Maranello Rosso collection. It's chassis number is 3851 GT. According to Bonhams auction house, only 39 such cars are known to have been manufactured.
Its first owner was French racer Jo Schlesser, who drove the car in competition with his friend, the Olympian alpine ski racer Henri Oreiller, during the 1962 Tour de France Automobile. However, the second time the French pair took the car out, during the Coupes du Salon race, Oreiller crashed it and was killed.
"The car was badly damaged after hitting a trackside building and a mourning Jo Schlesser returned it to the factory for repair to as-new condition and subsequent re-sale," Bonhams said.
Paolo Colombo of Italy purchased it the following year for competition and later sold it to Ernesto Prinoth, who, Bonhams said, "embarked upon an energetic program of mixed hill-climbing and circuit racing." Italian enthusiast Fabrizio Violati acquired the car in 1965 and kept it until his death in 2010. It had since been retained by the Maranello Rosso Collezione.
The auctioneers did not name the new buyer.
Among the celebrities who own a Ferrari 250 GTO are the designer Ralph Lauren, Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason and the heir to the Wal-Mart supermarket chain, Rob Walton, according to The Los Angeles Times.
Last Updated on September 22, 2014
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