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PostPosted: Tue Jul 14, 2020 6:57 am 
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I really dig the concept, but I'm not a replica guy. Of course the price is good considering the real deal is up to about 2 million. Maybe someone here might be interested. It appears this is a well done job and they even welded the hatch shut which is the way the real one is. I've seen these before at car shows and they didn't weld the hatch, and the job wasn't as good as this one.


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PostPosted: Tue Jul 14, 2020 1:06 pm 
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["Of course the price is good considering the real deal is up to about 2 million"].

The Ferrari GTO was the very first car in automotive history to ever sell at auction for $1million dollars...In 1988. Today they are auctioning for over $50 million apiece.

https://www.autoblog.com/2014/07/29/fer ... 4-million/

There were only 39 of them ever made, and they earned Ferrari the world automobile championship several straight years in the early 1960s. Only Mercedes and Aston Martin had any chance of beating them until Ford got serious about championship sportscar racing and built the Cobra Daytona and GT40. One of my greatest teenage thrills was watching Lorenzo Bandini in a 250GTO beat Bob Johnson in a 289 Cobra and the then-brand-new 1963 Corvette split window coupe at Watkins Glen in '63. That was where I first understood what they meant about the "Bashee Wail" of the GTO series.

One of these replicas burned on a public street in England in 2012, throwing the entire collectable car society into a panic before they learned it was really a V8-engined 240Z.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 15, 2020 8:52 am 
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I stand corrected........$50 million :shock: I think I stopped checking when it was $2 million. There is a John Candy movie out there and he is driving one, most likely a replica. If I was to do a replica I would at least see if the Jaguar V-12 would fit, inexpensive to get VS the real deal. I think the Ferrari was around 300 HP. Then you have a Lotus Esprit 4 cylinder that's about 300 HP, go figure.


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PostPosted: Wed Jul 15, 2020 1:03 pm 
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You're right. The entire 250 engine series were 3.0 liter V-12 OHC or DOHC engines designed by Columbo. They made right at 300bhp.

Ferrari designated their engine size not by the total swept piston displacement, but by the size of a single cylinder. I don't think anyone else on earth measures that way. Anyway, the "250" indicates that the engine has a volume of 250cc in each cylinder. 250cc x 12 cylinders = 3000cc, or 3 liters (182 cubic inches).

The 250 engine series survived from the 1950s into the late 1960s and powered some of Ferrari's most-successful sport-racers, including the 250 Testa Rossa and this GTO. Variances in compression ratios, camshafts and carburetor systems gave the engine a wide variety of power and torque options. With proper gearing, the 250 engine powered the Ferrari to touch 200mph on France's Mulsanne straight.

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