A spectacular case of a sale of one of the world’s most exclusive and most expensive cars, a Ferrari 250 GTO with chassis number 3387GT, have come to court in London.
the Reason is a disagreement between the buyer and the seller in relation to the car’s original gearbox is included in the purchase or not.
It writes Forbes.
the Ferrari 250 GTO chassis number 3387GT was in October 2017 sold by an american lawyer by the name of Bernard Carl to the former racing driver and now London-based superbilsælger Gregor Fishing for 44 million dollars, equivalent to just under 294 million.
Now, a few years later, the sale ended at the court of London. The reason for the controversy is about that car and its the original gearbox was owned by two different parties and it knew both Carl and Fishing at the sale of the car.
But here stops the agreement also. Mr Fish, that is the buyer of the Ferrarien, believed then and today that it was up to the seller of obtaining the original gearbox from the owner, while the seller, Carl, considers that it was up to the Fisherman to get hold of the car’s original gearbox.
the fisherman’s plan was, according to Forbes, from the start to sell the exclusive car to another within a foreseeable future, and when he has in fact already sold the car on to another, amplifies it, only his eagerness to get hold of the original gearbox.
the Owner of the original gearbox, an american act of rare car parts, have chosen to require 25,000 dollars in order to ‘release’ the gearbox.
Seen from a collector’s point of view it may raise the value of a rare car as a 250 GTO significantly, if the original gearbox sitting in the car, so it is probably very important for Gregory the Fisherman to grab the part, and would like for Carl’s expense.
It may seem odd that the car is not fitted with the original gearbox, as it was born with, when the transmission still exists, but it hangs together with the fact that the model was built and used in race.
exactly this 250 GTO hours to harvest 17 podiumplaceringer in 27 different races – including a second-place finish in the 24-hour race at Le Mans in 1962.
As it belongs to in a car, the parts are often replaced in the course of a season, and it has also happened here, why the original gearbox, as the car was delivered with from the Ferrari factory, was pulled out at a time, as the car was used to race.
Since then the have both the car and the gearbox changed owners several times, and now will Fish like to have assembled the parts again.
the Seller, mr. Carl is not, however, agree with the purchaser that it was the seller’s task to raise the gearbox. Instead, think hr. Carl, that Fisherman can take to California and get hold of the gearbox, and to hr. Fishing, incidentally, owe Carl an extra $ 500,000 in order to locate the original transmission.
the Court of London are allowed to say the last word in this case, for hr. Fishing has sued hr. Carl, not to deliver the gearbox and to require $ 500,000 to have located it.
Photo: Auction House
Photo: Auction House
