Ferrari 250 GT Coupé Pininfarina – 1959

Model Year	1959
Mileage	4,666 km
Transmission	Manual
Ext. color	Grigio Conchiglia MM 16249
Int. color	Connolly Leather Verde VM 3476 (Aquamarine)
Price	525 000 EUR

- Presented in its exquisite original colour combination of Grigio Conchiglia over Verde Aquamarine leather
- Complete history known and documented.
- Ferrari Classiche certified, confirming the car’s matching-numbers chassis, body, engine and gearbox.
- One of only 354 examples produced
- Desirable Series One with drum brakes and offset lever four-speed transmission
Chronology:
August 12, 1959
Factory completion date

September 1959
Delivered new via Johnny Von Neumann’s official dealership, Ferrari Representatives of Hollywood, CA/USA. Specially ordered by the first owner, who wanted an interior comparable to that of his Ford T-Bird.

January 1960
Sold to the first owner, Donald Hampton, resident in Los Angeles, CA/USA

1970
Sold to Richard Mills in OH/USA

1979 to 1980
Listed in the Ferrari Owners Club USA membership roster as owned by Richard Mills, President of the Mills Alloy Steel Company and resident in Cleveland Heights, OH/USA.

1981
Sold by Mills to Dutch broker Robert De La Rive Box, resident in Villmergen, Switzerland.

1981
Re-sold by De La Rive Box to Autodino SA & Foitek AG, official Ferrari dealers in Zurich, Switzerland.

1981
Driven by Karl Foitek on Swiss dealer license plates of Zurich “ZH 32402”.

1984
Sold by Foitek to Gösta Fredriksson, a plastic manufacturer resident in Örebro, Sweden.

September 1, 1986
Registered in Sweden on license plates “MDF-565”.

1999
Still owned by Fredriksson.

December 19, 2000
For sale at the Bonhams & Brooks auction held at Hotel Palace in Gstaad, Switzerland, Lot #139, estimated price Swiss Francs CHF 85’000 to CHF 100’000, sold for Swiss Francs CHF 97’000 (or US$ 57’738) to Philippe Lancsweert in Brussels, Belgium.

February 14, 2004
For sale at the Artcurial Briest Poulain-Le Fur auction in Paris, Lot #121, estimated price Euro €80’000 to €90’000, sold to Count Hubertus Dönhoff, resident in Dietramszell, Germany. In the auction catalogue it states that the engine was rebuilt in Modena one year prior.

March 2013
Still owned by Dönhoff, car has the original turquoise interior.

2013
Sold by Dönhoff through Axel Schütte Fine Cars GmbH to Helmut Eberlein Automobile in Kassel, Germany.

April 10-14, 2013
Displayed by Eberlein Automobile during the 25th Annual Techno Classica in Essen, Germany.

December 10, 2014
Ferrari Classiche “Red Book” certified. Factory Certificate of Authenticity #4357 F issued.

May 2019
Advertised for sale in the English magazine “Octane”, issue #191, by Will Stone Historic Cars Ltd., England
Car is registered in the United Kingdom.

2020
Owned by Rutger H. J. P. Houtkamp’s The Houtkamp Collection in The Netherlands, New Schedoni interior in the original colour Verde VM 3476 (Aquamarine) is fitted. Later sold.