The gorgeous Ferrari 250GT Berlinetta Lusso is generally regarded as having been the most exquisitely proportioned and most beautiful of all the Pininfarina styling creations upon the legendary front-engined Ferrari 250GT chassis.

These were classical high-performance Granturismo cars with a difference, for they combined power and speed with the highest contemporary levels of elegance and comfortable accommodation for two, plus their luggage.

If ever there was a Ferrari for lovers this was it, and the motoring-minded public loved the Lusso and everything it represented.

French-domiciled Swiss owner Robert Blouin (who lived in Angers) took his enthusiasm one step further, and his Ferrari 250GT Lusso – as now offered here – became the only example of this refined early-‘sixties sophisticate to be raced competitively, not merely at club or national level (as two others were) but at International FIA World Championship event level – most particularly, in the fabulous Targa Florio open r...