• One of a mere 200 Series II cars with disc brakes and overdrive • Delivered new to Switzerland, now EU registered • Restored by Carrozzeria Cremonini 2007-2008 with photographic record on file • Present private ownership for more than a decade • Offered with Factory Hardtop" • Marcel Massini report on file together with numerous service invoices By the early 1960s, road car production had ceased to be a sideline for Ferrari and was seen as vitally important to the company's future stability.

Thus the 250, Ferrari's first volume-produced model, can be seen as critically important, though production of the first of the line - the 250 Europa, built from 1953 to '54 - amounted to fewer than 20.

Before the advent of the Europa, Ferrari had built road-going coupés and convertibles in small numbers, usually to special customer order using a sports-racing chassis as the basis.

Ghia and Vignale of Turin and Touring of Milan were responsible for bodying many of these but there was no attemp...