1851 GT: AMONG THE LAST Powered by a revised “outside plug” 3.0-liter V-12 producing 240 horsepower, fitted with an overdrive-equipped transmission and updated mechanical underpinnings, and clothed in a beautiful skin penned by Pinin Farina—Ferrari’s second-series version of their venerable 250 GT model range is undoubtedly the most sought-after by collectors.

These “Series II” 250 GT Coupes were produced in very limited quantity only for the 1960 and 1961 model year, and even fewer survive to the present which have experienced such a well-documented and pampered life as our subject lot.

Marque historian Marcel Massini notes that 1851 GT was completed by Ferrari on 5 May 1960 wearing a Grigio Milano exterior and Connolly blue leather/vinyl interior.

Two weeks later, it was sold by a dealer in Turin to a Mrs.

Gabriella Chiora for 5,500,000 Lire.

By September 1963, factory maintenance records show that she and her beautiful Ferrari had recorded nearly 30,000 kilometers (~18,641 mile...