Ferrari 250 GTO – #4757GT

The drug smuggler

Chassis number: 4757GT

Engine number: 4757GT (today maybe: 3725GT)

Production date: 05.06.1963

Original colour: Rosso Cina/blu

Special features: –

delivered to: Scuderia SSS Repubblica di Venezia

first owner: Count Giovanni Volpi

further owners:

xx/1964: Ecurie Francorchamps/Georges Marquet (Belgium)

xx/1965: John Calley (Burbank, USA)

xx/1966: C. Fee (USA)

xx/1969: Dr. Hamilton M. Kelly (San Marino, USA)

xx/1974: Chris Cord (Beverly Hills, USA)

xx/1977: James Stollenwerck (Beverly Hills, USA; Restoration)

xx/1982: Christopher Murray (Middletown, USA; paid 345’000 dollars; Murray had to flee to Spain in 1984 when it became known that he was smuggling drugs for a living; he was shot dead in Spain in 1987; the FBI had already confiscated the car in 1984, in 1987 it was sold at auction for 1.6 million dollars to “Douglas Auto sales & GTO Partners” – and sold on the same day to Jacques Swaters (Ecurie Francorchamps))

xx/198x: Fritz Kroymans (Hilversum, Netherlands; Kroymans was the Dutch Ferrari importer – and assembled the engine from the Ferrari 250 GTE 2+2 (#3725GT))

01/2010: Tom Price (San Francisco, USA; probably current owner).

most important races:

15/16/06/1963: 24 Hours of Le Mans, Carlo Maria Abate/Fernand Tavano, #20, accident.

11/08/1963: hill climb Ollons-Villars, Carlo Maria Abate, #108, 9th place OA/1st place class

14-22-09.1963: Tour de France, Fernand Tavano/Lorenzo Bandini, #175, dnf

11-20-09-1964: Tour de France, Langlois/Gosselin, #169, dnf

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