This most unusual Lot comprises a two-cam aluminium-bodied Ferrari 275GTB which was damaged in its shipping container during the transAtlantic voyage to the UK.

It was subsequently completely stripped down into component form and the damaged aluminium body panels stripped of all paintwork preparatory to full restoration, repainting and reassembly.

The project was never progressed and as offered here this Lot has been in storage for many years.

Ferrari 275GTB chassis serial ‘08249’ was ordered via the Milan Ferrari agent Crepaldi and was completed by the Ferrari factory at Maranello in February 1966.

Its ssembly sequence number was ‘337’ and its Scaglietti body number was ‘342’.

This was an alloy-bodied lightweight car from new and appears to have been ordered with ‘gentleman’s motor sport in mind, being completed as a three-carburettor car finished in silver with black full-leather upholstery, special padding to the driver’s seat, and sporting a “chromium-plated roll bar”.

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