Swaters ran Garage Francorchamps, the exclusive distributor of Ferraris in Belgium, as well as, owning and managing the Ecurie Belge and Ecurie Francorchamps racing teams.
I suppose it depends on why you bought your GTO in the first place. If you bought it as an art object, you'd treat it with kid gloves while you prepare for the next concours d'elegance. If you bought it as an investment, you might think about cashing in, or you might do a fist pump as the sale of this particular car just increased the value of an asset in your portfolio. Or, you might be getting ready for the coming season of vintage race hoonage at Goodwood, Monterey, LeMans, etc. In any of these cases, your net worth is going to be large enough that you'll only sell your GTO on your terms.
With great difficulty.
If anything, the World's 250 GTO owners are probably taking a "hold" position on this investment.
Yes, all 250 GTOs are present and accounted for.
That's a steep price for an obviously beautiful, incredibly rare car with a middling competition history (chassis # 5095). Which means a GTO with a more distinguished history (say chassis # 3505, pictured above), could fetch an even higher price.
The who/what/when/where of GTO histories.
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I used to know a guy named Michael Caine.....he was kind of a bad-ass. Probably not the same fellow.
In keeping with your theme.....(with Ginger Baker on drums and Steve Vai on guitar)
Here's the Man! Bobby "Blue" Bland!
DUANers and gentlemen, Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters!
Barry Gray FTW!
Cut Patrick some slack. After all, he is talking about his boss's girlfriend.
I submit this as a visual representation of the commentariat's reaction to the subject of today's NPOCP nominee. Mmmmnnn......nicely priced Christina wagon.
When first introduced, the 240z ticked all the boxes. All the style and performance offered by Triumph's TR6 and GT6 and the MGB and MGB GT, which were the moderately priced sports cars of their time, with dead, solid reliability.
Personally, I'd keep the engine, add an electronic ignition and modern fuel injection, and add your afore mentioned 5 speed. Nothing against the Mopar, but it can't sing the way a 4-cam Maserati V8 can.
Is obscure music from the other side of the planet ok?
Toyota Corolla (seen here in an uncharacteristically "fun" moment)
The Cleveland Browns won 7 league titles in 10 years.
The Green Bay Packers won 5 league titles in 7 years.
The Green Bay Packers won 5 league titles in 7 years.
Of course this happened before there were Super Bowls, and more importantly pre-ESPN, therefore they mean nothing. Please ignore these facts accordingly.
In the 1968 Tasman Series, Chris Amon used the Ferrari 312 chassis with a 2.4 liter V6 to beat the Lotuses (Lotii?) of Graham Hill and Jim Clark.
"Help, I've fallen.....and I scored a game-winning touch down"
