Yearly, most of the most precious vehicles on the planet make their means to Monterey, California for Automotive Week. It’s attainable to nonetheless benefit from the occasion for comparatively little cash, however actually, this occasion isn’t actually for folks like us. It’s for the billionaires and mega-millionaires who can afford to gather Nazi vehicles and drop seven figures at an RM Sotheby’s public sale. Nonetheless, generally one thing breaks via and finally ends up being fairly rattling cool. This 12 months, it is perhaps Tom Hartley Jnr and his numbers-matching Ferrari 250 GTO.
Hartley Jnr introduced plans to indicate off his 250 GTO at Pebble Seaside this 12 months on Instagram, highlighting the automobile’s racing historical past, distinctive paint shade and largely accident-free historical past contemplating how a lot time it spent on observe. He stated they’ve been working with Ferrari to revive this automobile he purchased it again in 2021, and now it’s lastly prepared. What makes this announcement way more fascinating, although, is the 24-minute video he additionally launched, that dives deep into the historical past and restoration course of required to get it Concours-ready.
In fact, at this level, Ferrari 250 GTOs aren’t actually vehicles anymore. They’re so invaluable, they’re extra like artwork items for the ultra-wealthy to cross round after they’re not shedding workers, doing inventory buybacks, and groveling at Mar-a-Lago for tax cuts, however come on. If you happen to have been going to purchase a automobile to show in your home as an alternative of driving, you may do lots worse than a 250 GTO. This stuff are simply objectively attractive and arguably extra stunning than even the legendary Jaguar E-Kind.
Extra importantly, it’s simply an interesting, extremely well-done video even should you don’t actually care all that a lot about ludicrously costly playthings for the 0.1 p.c. It’s, in any case, an necessary a part of automotive and racing historical past. Additionally, it seems to be attractive. Have I discussed that it’s attractive?