The highly successful racing berlinetta that Ferrari introduced in late-1959, on its new 2,400 millimetre short-wheelbase chassis, was a triumph in terms of both aesthetics and performance, as brilliantly epitomised by this desirable example of the 250 GT SWB.

Chassis number 2347 GT is the 62nd built out of a total production run of 165 cars, and the final example to be clothed in the 1960 body style.

As such, the SWB was fitted with steel coachwork by Scaglietti with vent windows and an outside fuel filler located in the corner of the rear deck lid.

Completed by the factory in February 1961, by June of that year it was sold by Chic Vandagriff’s Hollywood Sports Cars to the well-known Southern California collector, Jack Nethercutt.

The Merle Norman cosmetics scion was an early stalwart in the collector car niche and eventually founded his own automotive museum.

After retaining possession for just two years, Nethercutt sold the 250 GT to a Burbank dealership, from whom the car was ...