Talacrest

* We have sold approximately 100 Ferrari 275 models since 1987 including: 275 GTB/4 cam, 275 GTB/2 cam, 275 GTB/6c, alloy and steel bodied cars as well as the pretty 275 GTS model.

* This year alone we have sold 10 cars including 275 GTB/4 cam, 275 GTB/2 cam, alloy and steel bodied cars aswell as 275 GTS models.

* Talacrest sold the Ferrari 275 GTB/4 #09831, the famous Daniel Del Rio car - Click here for an advert we ran featuring this car - wish we still had it to keep - and the Ferrari 275 GTB/6c which subsequently joined Brandon Wang's collection.

TWO CAM

The standard 275 GTB coupe was produced by Scaglietti It was more of a pure sports car than the GT name suggested. Some cars were built with an aluminium body instead of the standard steel body. A Series Two version with a longer nose appeared in 1965.

275 GTS
Pininfarina built 200 275 GTS Roadsters for the American market (including 14 in right hand drive) between 1964-1966 with entirely different bodywork. It was intended to be more of a GT car and less of a sports car than its GTB sibling.

275 GTB/C
For the 1965 racing season, 4 lightweight 275 GTB Competizione Speciales were built and equipped with 250 LM engines. For the 1966 season, Ferrari decided to build 12 lightweight 275 GTB/C cars, they were constructed between the end of the 275 two-cam production run and the start of the 275 four-cam production run. Two of the twelve built were sold for street use. Unlike the race cars, these street cars were fitted with alloy wheels shod with Pirelli tyres. Competition cars were fitted with special Borrani wire wheels, shod with Dunlop's latest racing tires. It was this combination that would prove to be the weak spot of the 275 GTB/C; the tyres had so much grip that they could overstress and break the spokes on the wheels. After the 275 GTB/C, no competition Ferrari would be fitted with wire wheels again.

FOUR CAM

275 GTB/4
Introduced at the Paris Motor Show in October 1966, the 275 GTB/4 (or 4-cam) was a substantially updated car; built by Scaglietti, it featured new bodywork and was the first Ferrari to not be offered with wire wheels. Power came from a substantially reworked Colombo V12, still with two valves per cylinder but now with a four-cam engine and six carburettors as standard. The 275 GTB/4 could hit 165 mph (266 km/h) with its 300 hp (220 kW). 280 4-cam versions were produced through 1968. In 2004, the 275 GTB/4 was named number seven on the list of Top Sports Cars of the 1960s.

275 GTB/4 NART
A 275 GTB/4 N.A.R.T. Spyder version was only available from a single American dealer, Luigi Chinetti, who was not satisfied with the 275 GTB/4. He asked Sergio Scaglietti and Enzo Ferrari to build a few Spyder versions of the 275 GTB/4, which he bought for approximately $8,000 each; N.A.R.T. stood for Chinetti's North American Racing Team. In a contemporary road test, Road & Track commended the Spyder as "the most satisfying sports car in the world." It was to be a custom run of 25 cars straight from Scaglietti, but just 10 were built in 1967 and 1968, making this one of the most valuable Ferraris. In the 1968 movie "The Thomas Crown Affair" the Ferrari driven by Faye Dunaway and being referred to as "one of those red Italian things" is actually the first of only ten Ferrari 275 GTS Spyder NART, serial number 09437. This particular car came second in its class in the 1968 12 hour of Sebring before being repainted and used for the movie. Steve McQueen liked the car so much, he eventually ended up with serial number 10453.

Prices

275 GTB/4 model and even the lesser regarded 275 GTS model have both approximately doubled in the last 3 years. 275 GTS prices range from £400,000 - £650,000. 275 GTB/4 cams range from £700,000 to £1,500,000.

These are great driving cars and represent the last of the classical front engined V12 Ferrari road/race car. If you are buying or selling - talk to us first.