1959 Ferrari 250 - GT Coupé Pininfarina

Ferrari 250 GT Coupé Pininfarina

Chassis number: 1435 GT

Model year: 1959

Mileage: 4666 km

Exterior colour: Grigio Conchiglia MM 16249

Interior colour: Connolly Leather Verde VM 3476 (Aquamarine)

Presented in its exquisite original colour combination of Grigio Conchiglia over Verde Aquamarine leather

Complete history known and documented.

Ferrari Classiche certified, confirming the car's matching-numbers chassis, body, engine and gearbox.

One of only 354 examples produced

Desirable Series One with drum brakes and offset lever four-speed transmission

Chronology:

August 12, 1959

Factory completion date

September 1959

Delivered new via Johnny Von Neumann's official dealership, Ferrari Representatives of Hollywood, CA/USA. Specially ordered by the first owner, who wanted an interior comparable to that of his Ford T-Bird.

January 1960

Sold to the first owner, Donald Hampton, resident in Los Angeles, CA/USA

1970

Sold to Richard Mills in OH/USA

1979 to 1980

Listed in the Ferrari Owners Club USA membership roster as owned by Richard Mills, President of the Mills Alloy Steel Company and resident in Cleveland Heights, OH/USA.

1981

Sold by Mills to Dutch broker Robert De La Rive Box, resident in Villmergen, Switzerland.

1981

Re-sold by De La Rive Box to Autodino SA & Foitek AG, official Ferrari dealers in Zurich, Switzerland.

1981

Driven by Karl Foitek on Swiss dealer license plates of Zurich “ZH 32402”.

1984

Sold by Foitek to Gösta Fredriksson, a plastic manufacturer resident in Örebro, Sweden.

September 1, 1986

Registered in Sweden on license plates “MDF-565”.

1999

Still owned by Fredriksson.

December 19, 2000

For sale at the Bonhams & Brooks auction held at Hotel Palace in Gstaad, Switzerland, Lot #139, estimated price Swiss Francs CHF 85'000 to CHF 100'000, sold for Swiss Francs CHF 97'000 (or US$ 57'738) to Philippe Lancsweert in Brussels, Belgium.

February 14, 2004

For sale at the Artcurial Briest Poulain-Le Fur auction in Paris, Lot #121, estimated price Euro €80'000 to €90'000, sold to Count Hubertus Dönhoff, resident in Dietramszell, Germany. In the auction catalogue it states that the engine was rebuilt in Modena one year prior.

March 2013

Still owned by Dönhoff, car has the original turquoise interior.

2013

Sold by Dönhoff through Axel Schütte Fine Cars GmbH to Helmut Eberlein Automobile in Kassel, Germany.

April 10-14, 2013

Displayed by Eberlein Automobile during the 25th Annual Techno Classica in Essen, Germany.

December 10, 2014

Ferrari Classiche “Red Book” certified. Factory Certificate of Authenticity #4357 F issued.

May 2019

Advertised for sale in the English magazine “Octane”, issue #191, by Will Stone Historic Cars Ltd., England

Car is registered in the United Kingdom.

2020

Owned by Rutger H. J. P. Houtkamp’s The Houtkamp Collection in The Netherlands, New Schedoni interior in the original colour Verde VM 3476 (Aquamarine) is fitted. Later sold.