PRESS
RELEASE
Ferrari
celebrates 60 year anniversary
Detroit
(USA), January 8th, 2007 – Ferrari is celebrating
its 60th anniversary in 2007 with a major event
from June 21st to June 24th in Maranello, Italy.
Maranello will be the finish line in a "relay
race" across five continents.
Designed
for export to America, the 1957 250 GT California
Spyder was Scaglietti's interpretation of an open-top
250 GT. Aluminum was used in the hood, doors, and
trunk lid, with steel specified elsewhere for most
models, though a few aluminum-bodied racing versions
were also built. The engine was the same as in the
250 Tour de France racing car with up to 240 hp
(179 kW). All used the long 2600 mm (102.4 in) chassis.
About 45 were made before it was replaced by the
SWB version in 1960, a fact mentioned by Cameron
Frye in the movie "Ferris Bueller's Day off."
This film made that car famous. Today the car is
worth in the neighborhood of 2-4 million dollars,
a recent car selling for 1.2 million dollars at
an RM Auction in Florida.
