The Only Mint Ferrari F40 In The World Heads To Auction

The Ferrari F40, revered arsenic 1 of the top supercars ever built, has a unsocial illustration heading to the RM Sotheby’s Monterey 2024 auction this weekend. This one-off F40 is estimated to fetch betwixt $1.9 cardinal and $2.5 million.

Originally painted successful Rosso Corsa and delivered to Germany (chassis fig 88538), this F40 aboriginal recovered itself with the German Ferrari Club president. However, harm successful 1998 led to a merchantability and consequent repair successful the Netherlands, with the car returning to its archetypal reddish hue.

An auction successful 2014 saw the F40 alteration hands again, and the existent owner, acquired successful 2021, opted for a unsocial path. Inspired by the airy greenish of a 250 GTO (chassis fig 3505), they broke with contented and had the F40 repainted successful this stunning shade. The interior was besides reupholstered successful blue.

While Ferrari mostly frowns upon modifications, this F40 is an exception. The Italian marque adjacent licensed Amalgam to make 1:8 and 1:18 standard models of this peculiar car.

Affectionately nicknamed the “Minty Forty” for its standout paintwork, this F40 retains its original, matching-numbers motor and transmission.

The auction listing highlights caller maintenance, including substance vessel replacements successful 2022 and implicit €43,000 spent connected the car successful the past 18 months. The odometer presently reads astir 19,300 miles (roughly 31,000 kilometres).

It whitethorn not beryllium for the Ferrari collectors retired determination but effort and find a much striking F40, we volition wait.

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