Enzo Ferrari’s passion may have been racing cars, but by 1950, he had begun to accept that exclusive road cars were needed to finance the company’s growing competition efforts.

Early roadgoing Ferraris were built in very small numbers, usually to special order, with no attempt at standardization.

A significant change occurred in 1954, when the Pinin Farina-designed 250 Europa debuted in Paris.

It was Ferrari’s first true production model and would form the foundation for all future Ferrari 250 models.

At the time of the unveiling of the second-series 250 Europa GT, Pinin Farina was in the process of building a new, much larger production facility and did not yet have the space to build the larger quantities of cars that Ferrari was requesting.

Accordingly, the new 250 GT Coupe design they created was handed over to Carrozzeria Boano, headed by one of Pinin Farina’s designers, Mario Felice Boano.

He proceeded to build 68 cars with slight styling alterations from the five cars that...