Gooding & Company recently launched its entire online catalogue for its upcoming Pebble Beach Auctions, set to take place on Friday, August 18 and Saturday, August 19 at the Pebble Beach Parc du Concours. The catalogue, consisting of 170 lots, marks the auction house’s largest offering of vehicles for a single event to date.
The headlining lot of the Pebble Beach Auctions is a 1962 Ferrari 250 GT SWB Berlinetta, presented in wonderfully patinated, unrestored condition. Gooding & Company has unveiled additional prized Italian offerings, ranging from 1950s competition cars to 1990s supercars.
“We are proud to announce yet another company record for the largest offering of vehicles at our upcoming Pebble Beach Auctions. I have no doubt our selections span virtually all categories and all eras of motoring up to the modern era,” said Gooding & Company President and Founder, David Gooding. “Notably, the recently announced Ferrari 250 GT SWB Berlinetta is one of a very limited handful of 250 GT Ferraris to survive in wholly unrestored, impeccably well-preserved condition. Cars such as these grace the market only ever so often, and each sale presents an opportunity to acquire a piece of virtually untouched history that carries with it all of the most cherished names, memories, and legacies.”
Throughout the decades, Ferrari’s 250 GT Short-Wheelbase (SWB) Berlinetta has developed a reputation for its timeless beauty, brilliant performance, and all-around versatility. Developed under the guidance of Giotto Bizzarrini, Carlo Chiti, and Mauro Forghieri, the 250 GT SWB was unveiled at the 1959 Paris Motor Show as the successor to Ferrari’s dominant Tour de France. The SWB Berlinetta immediately established itself as a competition powerhouse, outshining its contemporaries at the highest levels of international GT racing.
Between 1960 and 1963, just 165 SWB Berlinettas of all types were built, including this car, chassis 3507 GT. Delivered new to Italian industrialist Giovanni Renato Scalabrin, 3507 GT was finished in the tasteful, understated color scheme of Grigio Metallizzatto (Metallic Gray) with beige leather upholstery. According to Jess Pourret’s definitive book Ferrari 250 GT Competition Cars, 3507 GT was completed as a “Lusso Berlinetta with 36 DCS Weber carburetors, light pistons, and tuned exhaust.” Throughout his ownership, Sig. Scalabrin had the car routinely serviced at Ferrari’s Assistenza Clienti department in Modena.
Sig. Scalabrin kept his SWB Berlinetta until 1967, when it was sold to its second owner, the pioneering Italian car collector Giulio Dubbini. During his ownership, 3507 GT was registered in Padova and later accepted by the Registro Automotoclub Storico Italiano (ASI). In 1985, Sig. Dubbini sold the car to a fellow Padova-based collector, who registered it under his company’s name, Autobarche di Fabrizio Areni Bentivoglio & C. S.a.s. For the next two decades, the SWB Berlinetta was maintained in order and driven on special occasions, such as the Coppa d’Oro delle Dolomiti Storica in 2010.
Now in the care of its fourth owner, 3507 GT is particularly noteworthy for its remarkably original and well preserved condition. Unlike most 250-series Ferraris, this example has never been restored; instead, it has been regularly exercised and maintained in good working order. Today, this SWB retains its original beige leather upholstery, which possesses a fantastic, irreplaceable patina. This upholstery is complemented by the car’s mottled gray paintwork, and its original details throughout – original glass, period Irvin seat belts, and proper Borrani RW3690 wire wheels. Even original grease pencil markings bearing the chassis number remain intact underneath the trunk lid.
Other Italian stars of the auction include:
1952 Ferrari 340 America Berlinetta
1991 Ferrari F40
2007 Maserati MC12 Versione Corsa
More information about the auction including access to the entire catalog, can be found HERE.
