1985 Ferrari 288 GTO Coupe

This Ferrari 288 GTO was completed in mid-1985 and it wore Rosso Corsa paint (300/6) over a Nero leather (VM 8500) interior and powered by a special factory engine. Equipped with factory air conditioning and power windows, this Berlinetta was sold new by official Ferrari dealer Cris Vandagriff's Hollywood Sports Cars in Los Angeles, California, and Vandagriff reportedly kept the GTO as his personal car for a number of years.

In June 1989, the car was displayed at an FCA meet at Lake Lanier Island, Georgia where it won its class. In 1994, Vandagriff sold the GTO to Roy Polatchek of Orange, California with 1,000 kilometers on its odometer. It was shown at the FCA's International Ferrari Concours d'Elegance in Monterey, California, in August 1994 and won its class. Two days later, the car was shown at the Concorso Italiano staged at the Quail Lodge. In 1995 and 1996, it was shown at Skeets & Sharon Dunn Picnic at Osuna Ranch, California.

A.S. Fisher of Greenwich, Connecticut became the car's next custodian in 1996, and he presented the car at the FCA Annual Meet at Lansdowne Resort and Summit Point in Leesburg, Virginia, in May 1997. In 1999, it was sold into new ownership, and a year later to Bruce Lustman of Aspen, Colorado. He exhibited the car at the Rosso Rodeo Concours d'Elegance staged on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, California, in June 2001. Tom Horan of Denver, Colorado purchased it in February 2007, and when it was offered for sale two years later, the odometer still displayed a low figure of 14,441 kilometers (8,973 miles). A New York-based collector purchased the 288 GTO in 2009, and it was issued a Ferrari Classiche Red Book in February 2010. The following year, it was purchased by The Pinnacle Portfolio Collection.

Currently, the car has 15,004 kilometers (9,323 miles) on its odometer. In 2011, the car received a $30,000 service which included a timing belt replacement.

By Daniel Vaughan | Dec 2022