This is another model in the 250GT range, the Ferrari 250GT Lusso. This particular car, serial number 5031GT is seen here at Silverstone at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting in August 1996. The car was entered in the 'Coys of Kensington GT Race' by the owner Richard Taylor and was driven in the race by Peter Sugden and Lincoln Small. Although the Wikipedia article says that production of the Lusso didn't start till 1963 the programme of the event says that the car is a 1962 model, which tends to support the view of Peter Coltrin in the Wikipedia article that 'construction of the 250 GT Lusso must have begun soon after the presentation of the prototype of the Paris Motor Show' (in October 1962).
For what it is worth there was a factory four liter red Lusso built, which I was entered alongside in a North Jersey (USA) SCCA concours around February 1964. It clearly had been produced in 1963 to have been already on the road by then in North America. Why we Yanks, who fancy large displacement, did not receive ones with four liter SOHC Colombos is a mystery since the engine fit without apparent issues. Also showing opposite my then brand new Avanti was a Pegaso Z102 in French blue.
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