One to Buy: Uniquely Configured Grigio Argento 1995 Ferrari F50
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Although the 1990s was very much the era of silver-painted cars as an antidote to the brashness of the decade prior, one sector this popularity did not translate to was Ferrari sales where ‘re-sale red’ continued to rule despite not having been the most flattering shade for any of the Pininfarina-designed models offered by the House of the Prancing Horse.
A perfect illustration of this was how most customers opted to configure their F50; of the 349 examples built, more than 300 were completed in Rosso Corsa compared to just four in the far more handsome shade of Grigio Argento.
Of those four, only one was completed with contrast Giallo seat inserts applied to the otherwise black interior. Today, that car is on offer in California with DK Engineering.
Chassis 103794 was supplied new by Viennese Ferrari agent Wolfgang Denzel AG to Jean-Robert Grellet of Lustenau. Grellet attended many events in his car to include the Girard-Perregaux F50 watch presentation in Switzerland, the Ferrari Factory Finals at Mugello and Ferrari’s 50th Anniversary celebrations.
Having been sold to its second owner (John Hunt) and exported to the UK in 1999, chassis 103794 was subsequently stolen from Lake Como in 2001. The car ultimately wound up in Japan where it was registered in 2003 and regularly serviced for the next two decades.
In 2024, DK Engineering negotiated with the car’s Japanese owner, the former owner in the UK, the former insurer and with Ferrari (who went on to remove their internal Rub marker) and purchased chassis 103794.
The F50 was returned to British shores, since which time this uniquely configured Ferrari Classiche-certified F50 has been the subject of a ground up restoration.
For more information visit the DK Engineering website at: https://www.dkeng.co.uk/
