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1966 Ferrari 275 GTB Competizione For Sale - One Of The Most
Underrated Ferrari Competition Cars LMC is very proud to offer for
sale this 1966 Ferrari 275 GTB Competizione The Ferrari 275 GTB/C
is the direct evolution of the famous Ferrari 250 GTO and one of
the most important competition sports cars to come out of
Maranello. In July 1964, the FIA denied homologation recognition to
Ferrari's rear-engine 250 LM race car claiming that the model bore
so little relation to a production car that it had no place
competing against standard GT cars. Despite its road-going intent,
Ferrari was forced to reconsider the 275 for competition use and
began fitting the chassis with competition engines and lightweight
aluminum bodies for their race clientele. This birthed the 275 GTB
Competizione Speciale of which 3 examples were produced utilizing a
special lightweight aluminum body with major modifications compared
to the road going 275 GTB. With the FIA still incensed from
Ferrari's attempts to incorrectly homologate the 250 LM, the 275
GTB/C Speciales were not initially granted homologation, as the car
submitted was considerably under the dry weight stated for the
road-going 275 GTB. Determined to see the car compete, Ferrari
offered to accept homologation at the weight stated for the
road-going 275 GTB, but the FIA refused. Eventually, both sides
would reach a compromise by June of 1965, but only chassis 06885
would see competitive action during that season. 06885 quickly
proved the potency of the platform, finishing an incredible first
in class and third overall at the 1965 24 Hours of Le Mans and a
record that has stood ever since, as the best finish by a
front-engine car. For the 1966 season, the factory built a series
of 12 two-cam cars with long-nose bodywork, officially recognizing
the model as the 275 GTB/C. The body was lightened and mechanically
revised wherever possible by Mauro Forghieri, under whose guidance
Ferrari won the driver's F1 World Championship title four times.
Utilizing ultra-thin-gauge aluminum coachwork with bulging
posterior haunches to accommodate wider rear wheels, the latest
GTB/C was also equipped with an aluminum floorpan and twin
fiberglass fuel tanks capable of holding 36 gallons. The dry-sump
type 213 competition engine from the 250 LM was structurally
reinforced with a ribbed case and equipped with a special high-lift
camshaft, forged pistons, and specialized valves and crankshaft.
The casings for the sump plate, clutch bell housing, and timing
chain were all cast from Elektron, a lightweight magnesium alloy.
While outwardly similar to the road-going example, the Competizione
was still far different, more of a wolf in a sheeps clothing meant
to appease the officials at the FIA. This 275 GTB/C offered here
for sale benefits from minimal competition use in period and a
recent exacting three-year comprehensive restoration, resulting in
one of the most authentic and well-presented examples of the
275-based racing variant. According to marque expert Marcel
Massini, this chassis number is the ninth of the 12 third-series
cars and was dispatched to Scaglietti for coachwork in May 1966,
finished in Rosso Chiaro paint and trimmed with a Nero interior
featuring special grey cloth seat inserts. After a certificate of
origin was issued in August 1966, the Ferrari was sold new to the
Milan-based company Editoriale Il Borgo di Luciano Conti. Signor
Conti was an amateur racing driver-turned-publisher who founded an
motorsports weekly called Autosprint which received significant
support from Enzo Ferrari (who was disenchanted with the Italian
motoring press, and occasionally even penned an article for the
publication). The car was purchased for the use of an aspiring
young racing driver named Arturo Merzario, who would famously go on
to become a factory grand prix driver, and a central component of
Ferrari's legendary 1973 sports-prototype championship winning
team-one of the most successful teams in the Scuderia's storied
history. In March 1967 Conti sold the 275 GTB/C to Enrico Tronconi,
and a year later the car was acquired from him by Vito Figlioni.
The Ferrari was fitted with a chromed grille guard and campaigned
at two racing events during 1969, the Castell' Aquarto-Vernasca
Hillclimb and the Colle San Eusebio Hillclimb, both of which
resulted in 1st-place finishes by driver Cesare Marchesi. In
February 1973, Marchesi arranged a sale from Figlioli to Emilio
Gritti Morlacchi, who was a member of the Etneo Veteran Car Club, a
significant motoring organization that was Sicily's first
ASI-recognized club. In 1973 the Ferrari was purchased by Amsterdam
resident Dr. Paul Schouwenburg, commencing 22 years of ownership
based in The Netherlands. A year later the 275 was sold to Cees
Fokke Bosch, who retained possession for ten years before selling
the car to Nico Koel in 1985. Mr. Koel presented the berlinetta at
several events over the following five years and raced the car at
the AvD-Oldtimer Grand Prix at the N�rburgring in August 1988. In
March 1995 Koel sold the Ferrari to a Hong Kong collector, and the
car was domiciled in England. Over his 19-year ownership, the
collector would drive the 275 in a host of European vintage touring
events, including four appearances at the Tour de France Automobile
and five appearances at the Tour Auto. The berlinetta was presented
at the 1996 Ferrari 275 Reunion in Oxford and the 1998 Coys
International Historic Race Festival; it was later driven on the
40th Anniversary of the Ferrari 250 GTO Tour in France in September
2002, and the Ferrari Factory 275 Anniversary Tour through Tuscany
in June 2004. In May 2014 the 275 was purchased by a respected
collector based in North Carolina, and he immediately commissioned
Mark Allin's Rare Drive of East Kingston, New Hampshire, to begin a
restoration with the goal of bringing it back to concours
standards. All mechanical systems were rebuilt, while the exterior
and cockpit were refinished in the proper factory livery. The
technicians were delighted to discover matching body number
markings (B-11) on a majority of the panels and interior
components, and they additionally found the original seat insert
material under a subsequent recovering: a square-woven grey fabric
that they duly replicated for upholstery. After completing the
painstaking refurbishment in August 2017, the beautiful Ferrari was
then presented at the 2017 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance as part
of Ferrari's 70th Anniversary celebration, and at the 2018
Cavallino Classic, where it won an FCA Platinum Award. Awards
continued at various local concours d'elegance through the
remainder of the year, including the Sponsors Choice award at Boca
Raton, the Palmetto Award at Hilton Head Island, and exhibition at
the Trump Charlotte Concours d'Elegance. The car was also presented
in consecutive appearances at the 2021 and 2022 Amelia Island
Concours d'Elegance, the latter of which celebrated "75 Years of
Rosso." Included in the sale is a complete set of tools, the
Ferrari Classiche Red Book, factory build sheets, history report by
Marcel Massini, ACI estratto cronologico, period racing photos, FIA
Historic Technical Passport, former registrations, MOT
certificates, bills of sale and numerous restoration invoices. As
many of the 275 GTB/C examples were aggressively campaigned in
period, the model's extremely thin
