The Ferrari SA Aperta was built to commemorate Pininfarina’s 80th anniversary as a design house and to celebrate a partnership which had produced some of the finest road cars to be adorned with the Cavallino Rampante badge.

Production was limited to just 80 examples, which were all pre-sold by invitation only to Ferrari’s most loyal customers before the first car was shown at the Paris Motor Show in 2010.

The name “SA Aperta” was as much about its convertible configuration as it was an homage to both Sergio Pininfarina and his son Andrea, both of whom were made honorary chairmen of their eponymous company in 2006.

The car itself was a roadster variant of the extremely potent Ferrari 599 GTO—making it a successor to the 575 Superamerica and a continuation of Ferrari’s tradition of building limited-run variants of its flagship V-12 front-engined berlinettas.

Being based upon the 599 GTO, rather than the 599 GTB, meant that the SA Aperta received the full-fat Tipo 140 V-12 engine, wit...