Vintage Ferraris are big money. The couple million, auction-record-shattering kind of money. Does a Chevrolet V8 make this 250GTE more or less valuable? Depends on your way of thinking.
Ferrari built little over a thousand GTE grand tourers, each originally equipped with the famous 3.0-liter Colombo Tipo 125 V12 engine. Not a single Pininfarina-designed and built GTE ever came with a DZ302 V8 with a Tremec six-speed from a Dodge Viper and a Ford 9-inch rear end. (Hey, that’s the whole Big Three represented, right there.) What’s more, that color is straight from a Mitsubishi catalog.
The story goes that the Ferrari owner, Joe, acquired this shell, and only the shell, and nothing else. Having just paid $1,200 for an original Ferrari badge, he extrapolated the cost of the restoration from there and decided to cut his losses.
Smart guy. This thing looks like it drove straight from McQueen’s subconscious. It sounds badass, too.
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