Yearly, most of the most useful automobiles on the planet make their manner to Monterey, California for Automotive Week. It’s potential to nonetheless benefit from the occasion for comparatively little cash, however actually, this occasion isn’t actually for folks like us. It’s for the billionaires and mega-millionaires who can afford to gather Nazi automobiles and drop seven figures at an RM Sotheby’s public sale. Nonetheless, generally one thing breaks by and finally ends up being fairly rattling cool. This 12 months, it is perhaps Tom Hartley Jnr and his numbers-matching Ferrari 250 GTO.
Hartley Jnr introduced plans to point out off his 250 GTO at Pebble Seashore this 12 months on Instagram, highlighting the automotive’s racing historical past, distinctive paint colour and largely accident-free historical past contemplating how a lot time it spent on observe. He stated they’ve been working with Ferrari to revive this automotive he purchased it again in 2021, and now it’s lastly prepared. What makes this announcement way more attention-grabbing, although, is the 24-minute video he additionally launched, that dives deep into the historical past and restoration course of required to get it Concours-ready.
After all, at this level, Ferrari 250 GTOs aren’t actually automobiles anymore. They’re so useful, they’re extra like artwork items for the ultra-wealthy to cross round after they’re not shedding staff, doing inventory buybacks, and groveling at Mar-a-Lago for tax cuts, however come on. If you happen to have been going to purchase a automotive to show in your home as an alternative of driving, you may do lots worse than a 250 GTO. These items are simply objectively attractive and arguably extra stunning than even the legendary Jaguar E-Sort.
Extra importantly, it’s simply an enchanting, extremely well-done video even if you happen to don’t actually care all that a lot about ludicrously costly playthings for the 0.1 %. It’s, in spite of everything, an vital a part of automotive and racing historical past. Additionally, it appears to be like attractive. Have I discussed that it’s attractive?
