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The crazy story of the Bardinon family Ferrari

2020-02-07T20:43:16.979Z


BIG STORY - The three heirs of the biggest collector of the Italian brand, Pierre Bardinon, are fighting in court. The reason: the sale of a legendary model, a 250 GTO from 1964, by a member of the siblings without the knowledge of the other two.


What is oblong, gleaming, sparkling, costs 52,840 dollars (46,436 euros) per kilo and can drive you crazy? A Ferrari 250 GTO from 1964. One of them, sold in 2014 for $ 46.5 million, is currently the subject of a legal quarrel within a rich and discreet Croise family, the Bardinons.

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In the same way that royal blood lines generate more remarkable offspring than the others, the Maranello factory has produced some singularly mythical models which arouse all lusts. So of the 250 GTO. Between 1962 and 1964, the firm assembled thirty-six. The beast of competition has won all races and all rallies: this sparkling record, combined with the rarity of the machine, makes the red twelve-cylinder V-shaped car one of the most sought-after automobiles in the world.

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