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With This Ferrari GTO Re-Creation on BaT, You Don’t Need a Million to Look Like a Million

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With This Ferrari GTO Re-Creation on BaT, You Don’t Need a Million to Look Like a Million

Consider it a drivable version of one of the world’s most expensive cars.

Even if the French government sold you the Mona Lisa, you couldn't hang it in your bathroom. Some things are just too valuable to exist outside a museum, and when it comes to automotive art, the Ferrari 250 GTO is at the top of that list. Even at the Goodwood Revival, owners of actual GTOs used replicas or continuation cars for racing, rather than risk damaging a car that is basically priceless.

If you can’t get the Mona Lisa, you get a print of her, and a four-wheeled version of that just turned up on Bring a Trailer (which, like Car and Driver, is part of Hearst Autos). It's a 250 GTO re-creation based on a 1962 250 GTE, and it’s so well executed as to be indistinguishable from the real thing. If it wasn’t clearly labeled as a tribute build, you could call it a masterwork of forgery.

Instead, it’s the experience of driving a Ferrari worth as much as a Beverly Hills mansion for the price of a nicely optioned Porsche 911 GT3. Not only is the buy-in less of a barrier, but the insurance costs will also be within reason, which means whoever casts the winning bid in this auction will be able to actually drive their ersatz 250 GTO wherever and whenever they wish. Actual 250 GTO owners don’t even get to do that.

This re-creation started out with a 1962 250 GTE, a 2+2 grand tourer that is collectible enough on its own.


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