Ping!.............
Paging Jay Leno!
The Ferrari in Ferris Buehler was a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder. Worth 18 Million Dollars
From a better vanished time.
The numbering system Ferrari uses in its names is somewhat cryptic, and in some cases, so is the name itself.
Sometimes the number represents the engine’s displacement, like the Ferrari 360 has an (almost) 3.6 liter engine. The 430 was 4.3 liters. But just to keep you on your toes, the 355 had a 3.5 liter engine with 5 valves per cylinder.
Most of the 12-cylinder cars are given a 3-digit number that represents not the displacement of the whole engine but just a single cylinder. So A Ferrari 250 GT has 12 250cc cylinders = 3 liters. That was mostly just for the 12-cyl cars but there were a few exceptions, like the Mondial 500, which had a 2-liter 4-cylinder engine.
In still other cars the three digits represent the engine displacement and the number of cylinders, but how many digits for each changes according to the car. A Dino* 206 has a 2-liter 6-pot. A 308 has a 3-liter V-8. And the 512 Berlinetta Boxer had a 5-liter V-12.
But despite the name, the 512BB’s engine wasn’t a boxer, it was a 180-degree V-12. Ferrari has never built a boxer engine. Apparently the marketing department just liked the alliteration of “Berlinetta Boxer.”
And the F40 and F50 are so-named because they were built to commemorate the company’s 40th and 50th anniversaries, respectively.
So there really is no rhyme or reason to their numbering, and as is often the case, you can’t tell the players without a scorecard.
*For a time, because Enzo famously said, “A Ferrari is a 12-cylinder machine,” all the production cars that didn’t have 12 cylinders were badged as ‘Dinos’, after his late son. But that practice ended with the 308 (TV’s Thomas Magnum’s red Ferrari).
Just submitted my bid for the 1965 Ferrari 275 GTS by Pininfarina. Waiting for confirmation by the auction agency.......
Ill take that 1965 GTS.