Ferrari 250 GT Boano                                       €1.295.000 

Exterior Colour:                                    Gun metallic

Interior Colour:                                     Pelle Beige

Production date:                                   17-04-1957

Delivered new in:                                 Swiss

Engine:                                               3,0 V12 with 240 BHP

Transmission:                                     4 Speed + reverse

Total production estimate:                    88

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This particular example, chassisnumber 0653GT is one of 88 cars produced.

Pinin Farina introduced a 250-based prototype at the 1956 Geneva Motor Show which came to be called the 250 GT Boano.

Ferrari was very serious about producing the 250 GT Coupe in large numbers, so much that Pinin Farina couldn’t handle the expected production workload, especially since their new factory at Grugliasco wasn’t complete. Ferrari instead turned to one of Pinin Farina designers, Mario-Felice Boano of Carrozzeria Boano for the production of the bodies and interiors based on the Pinin Farina design.

Boano had both a design house in Turin and a production plant in Brescia, called Carrozzeria Boano Lavorazioni Speciali. They could handle large orders and gladly accepted the order from Ferrari which was significant. Because Boano acted as a subcontractor, his name was never mentioned in the promotion of the model.

Boano proceeded to build these cars with slight styling alterations from the five cars that Pinin Farina had already built, the most notable being a lower fender line. When Boano’s namesake moved to Fiat in 1957, his son in law, Ezio Ellena, took over production under tthe banner of Carrozzeria Ellena. Ellena too, matde minor cosmetic changes, in particular, a raised roofline, prompting the use of the terms “Low Roof” for Boano built bodies and “High Roof” for those by Ellena.

Chassisnumbers ranged from 0429GT to 0675GT

History

20-12-1956             Chassis delivered to Carrozzeria Boano

17-04-1957             Completion date at the factory and deliverd through Grand Garage Wabern in Bern to its first owner, Otto Wild (CH)

1959                          Car was traded in for a Chrysler at AMAG in Bern (CH)

1959                          Car was sold by AMAG to Dr. Edgar Kreyden in Bern (CH), who bought the car for his wife and had it painted gold metallic

05-06-1961                Car was bought by Hans Huber in Bern (CH) with 38.000 kilometers

10-11-1962                  Engine was rebuilt

1966                          Resprayed in Ferrari Dino Rosso

1971                           Mr. Huber sr. gave the car to Mr. Huber jr.

1990                          Car bought by Robert Fehlmann, (CH)

05-2000                    Car sold to VSOC in Sassenheim (NL) and offered by them with kilometers

04-09-2000              2nd price/award at Paleis het Loo, Concours d’Elegance

25-09-2000              The car was sold to KMS International in the United Kingdom

17-05-2001                Car participated in the Mille Miglia driven by Schukies / Giehl

03-2002                    Car bought by Mr. Storm who repainted the car in Gun metallic

22-05-2003               Participated in Mille Miglia with drivers Storm / Oprey

19-05-2016                Participated again in Mille Miglia with drivers Storm sr. and jr.

2025                          The car is owned since then by the same and last owner who is now willing to sell the car to a new caretaker

                                 A special opportunity to own a classic Ferrari 250 Boano