Steve McQueen's 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4

[RolexJNJ]

Unbelievable! Coming up for sale this weekend at Monterey!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p4tgV7ymMI

[GB-man]

Love love love the 275 gtb/4

Fact that it was Steve's is icing! Thanks for sharing. Maybe I'll hit the lotto and buy it

[Kingair]

Small money . . . . . ;)

Great car even driven or not by Steve

Can ask Chad if he will be there at the auction

Anyone going here on TRF ?

[RolexJNJ]

Originally Posted by GB-man

Love love love the 275 gtb/4

Fact that it was Steve's is icing! Thanks for sharing. Maybe I'll hit the lotto and buy it

Can you imagine!!

[wantonebad]

I posted this in the "Hell Cat" thread a month or so ago. Anything Steve McQueen related brings a premium, had this indeed been the NART that was unfortunately totaled it would have been a 30 million plus car...

Originally Posted by wantonebad

My personal feeling is that the Viper is kind of isolated, it's an enigma in that yes it's part of Dodge, but it was discontinued, then started as a separate company, now it's back. I think the V10 while awesome for motor-heads has turned many would-be buyers off. Don't get me wrong the Viper and Vette are it as far as serious American made road-course cars but while it might be faster then most everything else its butt-ugly and a little scary. Even with the new traction control system and saner handling it's still the car that almost killed Kelsey Grammer. I love the Viper, and would own one if I had the play money, but truth be told while it's incredibly under priced for what it is... I would most likely buy something else with the money because it's not very practical as just a weekend driver, it needs to be stretched out and driven hard and I'm not a track guy. If Steve McQueen were still around, he'd probably own one, and then they wouldn't be able to keep them in stock but it hasn't quite crossed over from unattainable-kind-of-cool to real-deal-appeal.

JMHO


Oh and speaking of Steve... Anyone see that his 67 GTB4 275 is for sale:
http://hiconsumption.com/2014/05/ste...gtb4-for-sale/

I read somewhere that after he crashed his NART he tried to turn this GTB into a NART, but it's been converted back and should fetch 8 figures. Even when a stock 4 cam GTB is going for around 4 mill.

[wantonebad]

Sold for 10 million.

http://www.latimes.com/business/auto...812-story.html

[Kingair]

Nice price Marc ;)

BTW did any of our members went to the auction ?

Any pics ?

[RolexJNJ]

Originally Posted by wantonebad

Sold for 10 million.

http://www.latimes.com/business/auto...812-story.html

Amazing!

[77T]

Originally Posted by wantonebad

i posted this in the "hell cat" thread a month or so ago.

my personal feeling is that the viper is kind of isolated, it's an enigma in that yes it's part of dodge, but it was discontinued, then started as a separate company, now it's back. I think the v10 while awesome for motor-heads has turned many would-be buyers off. Don't get me wrong the viper and vette are it as far as serious american made road-course cars but while it might be faster then most everything else its butt-ugly and a little scary. Even with the new traction control system and saner handling it's still the car that almost killed kelsey grammer. I love the viper, and would own one if i had the play money, but truth be told while it's incredibly under priced for what it is... I would most likely buy something else with the money because it's not very practical as just a weekend driver, it needs to be stretched out and driven hard and i'm not a track guy. If steve mcqueen were still around, he'd probably own one, and then they wouldn't be able to keep them in stock but it hasn't quite crossed over from unattainable-kind-of-cool to real-deal-appeal.

Marc: I missed reading your post last month so just posting to agree that when handling Vipers you can get bit. A friend learned the hard way at Road America (see video below) - but he walked away due to it's strength. Another friend who had a bad incident in a C6 still isn't totally recovered after 5 years of rehab. What we sometimes miss is that speed is one thing and survivable speed another...if I had to bite the wall in either one, I'd still choose the Viper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XhVObV_1PE

[Keith1]

Thanks Marc, and Joe for posting this!

[Kingair]

Originally Posted by 77T

Marc: I missed reading your post last month so just posting to agree that when handling Vipers you can get bit. A friend learned the hard way at Road America (see video below) - but he walked away due to it's strength. Another friend who had a bad incident in a C6 still isn't totally recovered after 5 years of rehab. What we sometimes miss is that speed is one thing and survivable speed another...if I had to bite the wall in either one, I'd still choose the Viper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XhVObV_1PE

Nice post !

[wantonebad]

Right on Paul!