TWO F E R R A R I 2 + 2 s

Two interesting Ferraris have come to light recently. The first is an ex– Chris Amon car, which Chris bought in England in 1976. The Ferrari 330 GT 2+2 was then Ferrari’s fastest road car. Chris lived in London at the time, and he found this prancing horse couldn’t really adapt to life there.

“London traffic could quickly see it change from a V12 to a V6,” he said at the time. He only drove it for eight months before selling it. The car changed hands, and countries, a few times before turning up in France. Interestingly, it was sent to the same workshop that used to prepare Chris’s racing Ferraris for a complete rebuild.

Chris told his family that he used to drive up into the hills above Modena with Enzo Ferrari, where they would lunch together. Apparently, after a lengthy and well-lubricated lunch, Enzo would insist on driving home. Perhaps in this car?

Today, it is back in factory-new condition. Sadly, Chris never got to see the car restored.

Another 330 GT 2+2 has also come to light and Sig. Ferrari definitely drove this one himself. It is a factory prototype but differs in only minor ways from Chris’s car. It was built in 1962 and kept by the factory for two years as it developed the model. The earlier cars had four headlights rather than the two on later examples. The four-litre V12 used triple Weber carburettors and produced 300bhp (224kw) at 6000rpm. This car was sold as new in the US in 1964 for probably somewhere around NZ$30K. Today, the US seller wants about NZ$750K for it.