This legendary Ferrari 375 Plus goes under the hammer

Posted on 19-05-2014 at 11:11 by sir_smokalot – 3 Comments”

Rich klassiekerliefhebbers, pull out your checkbook but again: next month is going to this unique Ferrari 375 with an impressive racehistorie away at an auction. That promises a miljoenenbal to be.

Of the 375-Plus, a true classic from the ’50s, were only 5 copies were built. This is the first. He is aangdreven by a huge, with a 4.9-liter V12 with 330 horsepower. Except European success at Le Mans and Silverstone was the Ferrari also are male in South America. In the life-threatening and no one ontzienende Carrera Panamericana (Mexico) won the 375, if opvoger of the 375 MM, with Umberto Maglioli axchter the wheel. The Italian took an average of 173 km/h. Those were the days…

Other big names behind the wheel if a seat was Jose Froilan Gonzalez, the ‘Pampas Bull’ from Argentina, and Paolo Marzotto.

Just as Fangio’s Mercedes W196 last year, this Ferrari 375 this year the showpiece of the Goodwood auction on 27 June. Or is he even 22 million euro will yield is yet to be seen, but that he afgehamerd is for an amount with at least six zeros seems like a foregone conclusion. The seller is doing it ‘without reserve’ of the hand, in the knowledge that the Ferrari-craziness is still not over his peak.