One and only Ferrari F40 comes out on the hammer
It was released in 1987 to celebrate Ferrari’s 40th anniversary, the F40 was the latest model that Enzo Ferrari was personally approved.
In his heart lies a 2.9-liter V-8-liter engine with a dual turbocharged 471 hpwrapped in a kevlar shell, carbon fiber and NOMEX composite materials. There was no luxury. Not even stereo. Not even carpets. Not even internal handles on the doors – just a traction cord. It weighed just over 2,400 pounds and reached 60 miles/h in about four seconds.
It was the fastest, most powerful and more expensive Ferrari ever built. Long, low, wide and extremely functional, the F40 looks like it was designed in a feverish dream.
This unique color will come out on the hammer from RM Sotheby’s auction house in Monterey, USA, on August 15-16, with the estimated sale price ranging from $ 2,500,000 to $ 2,800,000.
Driving an F40 is a physical, even primitive, experience. Each of the 1,315 Ferrari F40 built remains a mechanical masterpiece a. However, each of these 1,315 came out of the factory finished in a single color, the Rosso Corsa, with the example presented here, with a 94647 framework, not different – initially.
FRAME 94647: The « BEST F40 »
Completed on July 29, 1992 with F40’s Rosso Corsa characteristic instead of Stoffa Vigogna, with frame 94647 intended for the Italian market and distributed via Motor Spa in Modena. It was sold a few days after completing its first owner, the eccentric Impressor of Bologna nightlife, Paolo Pazzaglia, who added more than 5,000 vigorous kilometers (~ 3,106 miles) before leaving it in mid -1993.
