• Ferrari’s stylish drop-top 550, designed to honour Pininfarina’s 70th anniversary
• Numbered 114 of only 448 examples made
• One owner from new
• Odometer reads just over 6,000 kilometres
• Timing belt replacement and service carried out in September 2023
• Offered for sale with a leather folio containing Ferrari manuals, pair of 550 Barchetta helmets, and Ferrari-issued Certificate of Origin

Ferrari bosses launched a signal of intent when the marque’s all-new 550 Maranello was unveiled at the prestigious Nürburgring circuit in 1996. The name of the grand tourer proudly acknowledged its powerful 5.5-litre displacement, and the model was intended to propel Ferrari’s 12-cylinder grand tourer platform into the modern age—having not built a car to such a configuration since the 365 GTB/4 ‘Daytona’ in the 1970s. In 2000, Ferrari revealed a barchetta variant of the 550. The soft-top car was intended to honour the 70th anniversary of Pininfarina, Ferrari’s long-standing design partner, which had originally styled the 550.

The example offered here was delivered new via Scuderia Auto Becker GmbH of Düsseldorf, Germany, on 28 June 2001. The Ferrari has led a sheltered life since, having covered just over 6,000 kilometres at the time of cataloguing. The 550 Barchetta Pininfarina has been well maintained since new, with the history file containing no fewer than nine service invoices amounting to €22,788.34. The most recent service and timing belt replacement was carried out in September 2023 by Maranello Motors GmbH of Cologne at a cost of €5,453.03.

The car is offered for sale with a leather folio containing Ferrari manuals, pair of 550 Barchetta helmets, and Ferrari-issued Certificate of Origin, in addition to numerous maintenance invoices.
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