1961 Ferrari 250 - GT Cabriolet Pininfarina Serie II

The Ferrari 250 GT Cabriolet Series II has been sold by the factory to the Italian dealership Malago. It carried originally the very elegant colour combination as mouse grey metallic with a dark red interior. It was acquired by an American Ferrari enthusiast already in the seventies when it appeared in Pennsylvania and later in Ohio. It was offered in the seventies obviuosly repainted into black with a new black interior. In the late eighties it was part of Bill Kontes "The checkered Flag collection" in New Jersey who kept it obviously for more than ten years. In this time the odometer has shown an

overall mileage of 73 872 km's. It left the US in 1999 bought by a Netherland based Ferrari enthusiast. In its new home the 250 GT Cabriolet was frequently used for rallyeing and participating at Ferrari club events until we purchased it in 2005. The odometer was showing a mileage of near to 80 000 km which we believe might be the original overall mileage of the car.

Since then we carried out a major cosmetic restoration changing the outside colour into Argento metalizzato with a dark red interior. The engine compartment had been detailed in our workshop and lots of necessary work was carried out.

The engine is the late Tipo 128 F engine which was the last step of the development of the Tipo 128 engines. Beside lots of detailed

internal changes it already received the bigger valves producing more torque.

This was a big improvement compared to earlier models of the 250 GT Cabriolet carrying the earlier Tipo 128 D or Tipo 128 E engines.

Unnecessarily to say that it is the original matching number engine which had been installed into the car in 1961 by Ferrari.

Today our 250 GT Cabriolet Series II appears in near to new condition.