1960 Ferrari 250 GT SWB Berlinetta Coupe

This car is fitted with a Scaglietti lightweight steel body. This competition Berlinetta has magnesium components in the 3-liter V12 engine which develops 290 horsepower.

Ferrari 250GT SWB with chassis number 2291GT is the 59th or 60th example created and delivered to Jacques Swaters in Franchorchamps, Belgium on January 1, 1961. It is an alloy-bodied Berlinetta in Left-Hand Drive configuration that was first owned by Lorien Dernier who competed in Belgium. Dernier was to race the October running of the 1000km of Paris but failed to start the race.

Sometime during the 1960s the car was sent to the United States and to its next owner, John Ling. Ownership later passed to Don Luke who kept it until 1983 when it was sold to Dr. Robert L. Bodin. While in his care, the car was entered in the Chicago Historics in 1987 and 1992, the Monterey Ferrari gathering in 1992 and 1994, and in the Monterey Historic Races in 1994, 2004, and again in 2007.

By Daniel Vaughan | Mar 2019