An auction will take place on 17th and 18th January in Scottsdale, Arizona, featuring 6 magnificent convertible cars of the Italian Ferrari brand. It will look back on 40 years of history of this luxury car brand.
The oldest car of these six classic cars present, is the 1960 Ferrari 250 GT Cabriolet Series II Pinin Farina in Rosso Rubino color, is the number 68 of 212 that were built, has original hardtop and the 3.0-liter with a Colombo V12 engine with about 240 hp. The price for this gem is estimated at between $ 1.3 and $ 1.5 million.
Based on the year of production comes the 1972 Ferrari 365 GTB / 4 Daytona Spider in 1972, colored Argento Metallizzato, with chassis 14779, which as a curiosity, belonged to Hollywood actor and director Sydney Pollack. The engine is a V12 of a 4.4 liter with 352 hp. Only 121 copies of this convertible version were built. The estimated sale price is between 2 and 2.4 million dollars.
From the year 1985 the Ferrari 308 GTS Quattrovalvole is presented with a 3.0 liter V8 engine with four valves per cylinder, making a total of 32, developed by 230 hp. From the year 1990 follows the model 348 TS that is equipped with the engine V8 of 3.4 liter with 300 hp. In total, 3800 copies were produced, and both are estimated to cost between $ 80 and $ 100,000.
With the highest value of this auction, between $ 3.2 and $ 3.6 million, comes the powerful 1995 F50, one of the magnificent 349 copies produced, one of the 55 built for the US. It is equipped with Formula 1, Type F130B V12 of a 4.7 liter and 513 hp.
Last is the latest model, built in 2001, the Ferrari 550 Barchetta. 448 copies were produced to celebrate Pininfarina's 70th anniversary. It was equipped with the V12 engine of 5.5 liter 412 hp. The value of the sale is estimated to be between 400 and 500 dollars.
