Ferrari 250 SWB

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#21

03-25-2008, 04:02 AM

BSM

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Damn! That ^^^ is nice...

This one below is one of my fav 250 SWB's... belongs to Bruce Meyer (pictured in yellow polo), was featured in Forza Mag a few months back.

Ferrari 250GT Berlinetta SWB

#22

03-28-2008, 03:03 PM

Top Banana

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Top Banana will become famous soon enough

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Originally Posted by MTK

sold it! 2M

I grew up in Rhode Island and a friend of mine was very fortunate to be able to afford to race sports cars back in the 60's. He talked his dad into buying him a 250SWB. After a few outings, he wrecked it and went out and bought another one. He raced that second one for a couple of years and at this point I'll finish the story the way he tells it........

Yeah, I had a 250 SWB that I raced back in the 60's and after I beat it up, I found some guy in Connecticut who was going to give me $5,000 for the thing. Obviously he didn't know how much I had raced it or what it was worth.

Well years later, I am out in California at a concours and here is this little 250SWB sitting there all pretty, you know. Anyway, I look the car over real good and I begin to realize that this is my old race car. I strike up a conversation with the owner trying to find out more history on the car.

Here is what he told me.....I always wanted one of these and I finally found this one in a barn in Connecticut. The owner didn't really know the value of the car or realize that it had race history, so I was able to buy it for only $500,000.

True story.