Ferrari F40 – #84169

Dare to Dream

Chassis-Nummer: ZFFGJ34B000084169
Motoren-Nummer: 20005

Auktion: RM Sotheby’s, Dare to Dream 2024, Schätzpreis 2,75 bis 3,25 Millionen Dollar, verkauft für 3’470’000 Dollar, mit diesen Informationen: «F40s without the adjustable suspension and catalytic converts—known in the community as “non-cat, non-adjust”—are highly prized for their superior handling and less-restricted engines. One such example is offered here, remarkably well preserved and showing only 1,606 kilometers on the odometer as of cataloguing time. It completed production on 1 March 1990, finished as it is today in Rosso Corsa over Stoffa Vigogna (wool fabric), and was sold directly by the factory that same month. History compiled by former owners indicates that it was imported from Europe to Japan three months later and first registered there on 11 June of 1990 by a collector in Osaka, who drove the car sparingly. In 2004, the F40 would pass to another owner in Chiba prefecture, who retained it for five years before passing it on to its third and final Japanese caretaker in 2010. This owner stated that the mileage was 1,150 kilometers in 2015. That year, renowned Ferrari specialists DK Engineering of Hertfordshire, England, acquired the F40 and had it imported to the United Kingdom. Of the more than 140 F40s the outfit has handled over the years, chassis 84169 was among the lowest-mileage examples seen within the prior five years, according to correspondence on file from the company’s founder and director. While under the care of DK Engineering, the car had the cambelts, fuel tanks, rear upper wishbone bushings, wheel lock clips, and fluids replaced, the suspension stripped and refurbished with overhauled dampers, the cam covers stripped and repainted, the valve clearances checked, and a fire system fitted. With this work completed, DK Engineering commissioned a Ferrari Classiche inspection, the Red Book for which was issued on 9 February 2016 and confirms 84169’s superb condition, replete with numbers-matching chassis, engine, and gearbox. It is accompanied by manuals in pouch and tools. Since entering the Dare to Dream Collection in late 2015, the F40 has rarely been driven and continuously maintained, with the water pump replaced and a turbo unit rebuilt in 2020, and the air-conditioning system serviced and recharged in 2023».

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