Swedish title Chassis no.

1057 GT

· Certified by Ferrari Classiche
· Very high-quality restoration by the best Italian craftsmen
· Twelfth car built, known history
· One of the most beautiful cabriolets in the history of the car
· No reserve
 
In December 1958, Ferrari’s importer in the United States, Luigi Chinetti, received this splendid Ferrari 250 GT Spyder California in his New York showroom.

It was very much a new model, as production had begun only a few months earlier, and, for Chinetti, a source of satisfaction, as it was a model which he and John von Neumann, a Ferrari racer from California, had asked Ferrari to build.

And it was Chinetti who came up with the name ‘California’.

The car delivered to him was, moreover, only the twelfth example produced, including the prototype.
It was soon sold to its first New York owner, Robert Gumper, who kept it for a decade, before it crossed the country in 1970 to its second owner, Robert Ramlose, in California.

From 1974, the ca...