Build your own Ferrari GTO

Iain Kelly
Contributing Journalist
29 Jun 2018
1 min read

The Ferrari 250 GTO is the holy grail of classic cars, regularly changing hands for $50,000,000 or more.

Enzo Ferrari built 36 examples as the ultimate incarnation of his incredibly desirable 250 model, and the goal for the Olomagato (Italian for “homologation”) variant was to dominate sports car racing in the early 1960s.
 
In what is sure to drive the collector car market into a froth, Coys has just discovered a 1962 250 GTO that was never built back in the day. The unused chassis (#4105GT) has been in storage since it was built 56 years ago but never completed for reasons unknown. Coys will be auctioning it on Saturday, June 30 at their Blenheim event, and the kit will surely drive a record price as it includes the correct Tipo 128S V12 engine, a tube-frame GTO body skeleton, wheels, cooling system, suspension and brake components, and some interior pieces.

The kit will includes the correct Tipo 128S V12 engine. (image credit: Classic and Sports Car)
The kit will includes the correct Tipo 128S V12 engine. (image credit: Classic and Sports Car)

Iain Kelly is the revhead behind The Creators Online.

Credit: Classic and Sports Cars

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Iain Kelly
Contributing Journalist
A love of classic American and European cars drove Iain Kelly to motoring journalism straight out of high school, via the ownership of a tired 1975 HJ Holden Monaro.  For nearly 20 years he has worked on magazines and websites catering to modified late model high-performance Japanese and European tuner cars, as well as traditional hot rods, muscle cars and street machines. Some of these titles include Auto Salon, LSX Tuner, MOTOR, Forged, Freestyle Rides, Roadkill, SPEED, and Street Machine. He counts his trip to the USA to help build Mighty Car Mods’ “Subarute” along with co-authoring their recent book, The Cars of Mighty Car Mods, among his career highlights.  Iain lends his expertise to CarsGuide for a variety of advice projects, along with legitimising his automotive obsession with regular OverSteer contributions. Although his practical skills working on cars is nearly all self-taught, he still loves nothing more than spending quality time in the shed working on his project car, a 1964 Pontiac. He also admits to also having an addiction to E30 BMWs and Subaru Liberty RS Turbos, both of which he has had multiple examples of. With car choices like that, at least his mum thinks he is cool.
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