What Size Wheels Did The 250 Gto Ferrari Have

With the contempo news of a Ferrari 250 GTO selling for $70 million USD it started me thinking of other stories published here near the Ferrari icon, the 250 GTO. Here is a favorite.

This is a slightly updated re-post of an commodity originally published on My Car Quest in October 2011.

by Mike –

In Oct 2011 I wrote about a mystery, at least it was a mystery to me, about pictures of a Ferrari 250 GTO that I institute in the Baronial and December 1963 issues of Road & Track.

Bev Spencer in Ferrari 250 GTO No. 4219 at the Hillsborough Concours d'Elegance in May 1963

The August 1963 issue had a color film of a cherry Ferrari 250 GTO being driven by Pedro Rodriguez who won the iii-hr Daytona Continental race in this Ferrari 250 GTO.

The December issue had a black and white advert for Ferrari 250 GTO No. 4219 for sale that was raced past this aforementioned commuter and won this same race. This car was a calorie-free colour with new racing stripes down the centre.

In addition the seller was Spencer Buick (Bev Spencer) in San Francisco also an Authorized Ferrari Dealer.

The mystery for me; what happened to this Ferrari 250 GTO betwixt August and Dec 1963 that caused a color alter? And was a Buick dealer also really an Authorized Ferrari Dealer in 1963?

The answers were supplied past an commodity on MercedesHeritage.com written by Roy Spencer who is the editor of MercedesHeritage.com and also the son of Bev Spencer the owner, and seller, of Ferrari GTO No. 4219 in 1963.

A My Motorcar Quest reader sent the link to this commodity which was published just three weeks before my GTO Mystery post. And no I had not seen this commodity before, which is no longer available on MercedesHeritage.com.

Bev Spencer with Ferrari GTO No. 4219 at the Del Monte Club in Pebble Beach after racing at Laguna Seca in the fall of 1963 – note the Ferrari is being towed by a Buick Riviera, after all Spencer was a Buick dealer as well as a Ferrari dealer

Roy Spencer writes a fascinating story and explains that the paint task between August and December 1963 was because his male parent was using the car to race for the Northward America Racing Team (NART) and the motorcar was painted in the blue and white color scheme of NART. The stripes were blue and the car was white.

Bev Spencer also owned another Ferrari 250 GTO and the first Ferrari Testa Rossa made. All three of these special Ferraris were in Monterey in August 2011. The two GTOs were at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance and the Testa Rossa was sold at the Gooding sale for an all time record toll at auction for whatever automobile (up until 2011). This record has been beaten since and so.

Ferrari 250 GTO No. 4219 at Pebble Beach August 2011; now owned by Brandon Wang

It was pure coincidence that I found those two pictures from 1963 and asked some questions about this Ferrari 250 GTO. The answers were more than fascinating that I could have imagined.

The Comments below are also very interesting, they are worth reading.

The photos above used by permission of Roy Spencer.

Below are the 2 pictures that triggered the mystery.

Pedro Rodriguez in the 3-hour Daytona Continental-winning Ferrari GTO. Kodachrome photo by Robert L. Downing; from August 1963 Road & Track

Advertisement for Ferrari 250 GTO No. 4219 from December 1963 Road & Rail

Let us know what yous recall in the Comments.

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Summary

Article Proper name

The Ferrari 250 GTO Mystery Is Solved

Clarification

A Ferrari 250 GTO goes racing in 1963.

Author

Mike Gulett

What Size Wheels Did The 250 Gto Ferrari Have,

Source: https://mycarquest.com/2018/06/the-ferrari-250-gto-mystery-is-solved.html

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