One to Buy: ex- Giovanni Scalabrin / Giulio Dubbini 1962 Ferrari 250 GT SWB Berlinetta
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The 250 GT SWB Berlinetta was created as Ferrari’s GT challenger for the 1960 and 1961 seasons.
Customers could choose any combination of Lusso or Competizione parts; some cars left the factory with steel bodies, bumpers, proper windows, de-tuned engines and comfort interiors while others wore the lightest aluminium skins with sliding windows, peaky race motors and stripped-out cockpits.
Each car was based around Ferrari’s new Tipo 539 chassis; shortening the wheelbase not only improved handling but saved weight and increased torsional rigidity.
Suspension was via an independent coil sprung layout up front and a live axle with semi-elliptical springs at the rear. Telescopic Koni dampers, disc brakes and Borrani wire wheels were fitted all round. In the engine bay was a three-litre single overhead cam V12 with between 240bhp and 295bhp.
Just 165 examples of the 250 GT SWB Berlinetta were produced between 1960 and 1963, one of which will be going under the hammer at Gooding & Company’s Pebble Beach auctions taking place over August 18th and 19th.
Commissioned by Italian industrialist Giovanni Scalabrin and delivered in June 1962, chassis 3507 GT was configured in Grigio Metallizato over Beige upholstery and with the full complement of Lusso equipment.
Sig. Scalabrin kept his SWB Berlinetta until 1967, at which point he acquired a new 275 GTB/4. Chassis 3507 GT was sold to its second owner, the pioneering Italian car collector Giulio Dubbini, who retained it until 1985.
Since then this incredible unrestored car has resided in the hands of two further collectors and has accumulated just 53,000km from new.
