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Carmel, California

August 14, 2014










1958 Ferrari 250 GT Series 1 Cabriolet  

                                                              
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Sold For: $6,820,000

This particularly magnificent Ferrari 250 GT Cabriolet S1 Pinin Farina is chassis serial '0759 GT'. It is a very early example, being only the eighth of some 40 units built overall. Its chassis frame was delivered to the Pinin Farina plant on September 9, 1957, and upon its completion with this strikingly handsome body it was promptly (and so justifiably) exhibited at the 39th Salone dell'Automobile in Turin's Valentino Park exhibition hall, from October 30-November 10 that year.

In January, 1958, this Cabriolet was then shipped to the Venezuelan Ferrari importer, Carlo Kauffman, in the central-American state's capital city of Caracas. It was registered there on Venezuelan plates 'NC 6159'. The car was pictured in the factory's official 1959 Ferrari Yearbook, whose compilers every year made much of the burgeoning marque's global appeal. Study the car's gorgeously preserved tan leather and honeyed carpeting today and one can imagine just how cool and stylish it must have seemed to Carlos Kauffman and his eager clienti as they sampled '0759 GT' here on the broad sun-soaked boulevards of Venezuela's then booming, already oil-rich, capital city.