The many lives of a Ferrari GTO

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We came across this lovely image of a GTO in striking Swedish racing colours last week, only to learn that this very same car was seen on the concours d’elegance of Villa d’Este last weekend. Surprisingly, perhaps, the blue/yellow colour combination was kept despite having raced in these hues only shortly. The car was originally red and had two Italian owners before the colourful Ulf Norinder of Sweden got hold of it and decided it needed his national racing colours.

Norinder entered it in the ’63 Targa Florio, the Coppa Inter Europa at Monza in September that year and for the next season in the Daytona Continental 2000kms, again in the Targa, the 500kms of Spa, the 12 hours of Reims and the 1000kms of the Nurburgring where the above picture was taken.

In 1965 the car was rebodied by Drogo before being sold to the UK. From there on it made a tour over the world and was seen in a variety of events in the hands of a variety of owners in the US, Japan and Germany. It kept its Drogo body (now again repainted in blue albeit without the yellow stripe) for many more years. However, the last decade or so it back as it was in Sweden in ’63 and ’64 and is now seen mostly at prestigious concours events such as Pebble Beach (2007 and 2011), Watkins Glen concours (2007) Amelia island (2008 and 2012), Milwaukee Masterpieces (2009), Mar-a-Logo (2012) and the Ferrari Classiche Concours in Florida (2016). We do like it but wonder: would you have chosen the Norinder-guise? 

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