This 1965 Ferrari 275 GTS will be offered at Monaco Car Auctions’ L’Astarossa sale on June 8.
Today’s sleek supercars populate the cell-phone screens of teenage automotive enthusiasts around the globe. But it wasn’t always so. Long ago, in the day when owning a color television was a luxury, the sight of ain a magazine—let alone on the road—was a rare privilege. The decade of the 1960s was an especially fertile period for car design, and there’s no arguing that the Italians did it better than anyone, anywhere.
The latter was the last of Ferrari’s Colombo-designed V-12s, made 260 hp, and took the convertible to 150 mph. Whereas the berlinetta’s Pininfarina-designed body was built by Scaglietti, the all-steel spider was built by its designer, Pininfarina, after which, fully completed and trimmed bodies were delivered to Maranello for fitment of the mechanicals.The 29th produced, the car on offer was then delivered new to Spain, where it has primarily resided since.
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