Coys Auction - Légende et Passion

Espace Fontvielle
Monaco

On View:
Friday 9th May 2008 12:00 - 19:00
Saturday 10th May 2008 from 10:00

Sale:

Saturday 10th May 2008
Collectors' Items 14.30
Motor Cars at 15.00

Admission by catalogue only - admits two.

The Ferrari Testa Rossa has long been immortalised as one of the greatest sports-racing cars of all time, not to mention as the most successful of all front-engined Ferraris. Although certainly not at the forefront of technology even in its time - it had a fairly rudimentary spaceframe, styling rather than aerodynamics and primitive suspension - one cannot deny the car its many wins, its glorious sound and the magic of its style.

The evolutionary 1959 version of the Testa Rossa was immediately identifiable by its body, which featured full front wings and a Perspex air intake bulge over the carburettors. Other changes i