"The Best GT In The World".... [PIC]

Rich Sufficool · 2026-03-26T13:38:36Z

That was how Stirling Moss described this 1962 Ferrari 250 Berlinetta. I was just starting to look into European GTs as a kid and couldn't figure out how you could get 12 cylinders with just 3.0 liters of displacement being used to American iron. This Colombo designed type 125 V12 produced 296 HP and was actually almost half the weight of Jaguar's straight 6. It was capable of 0-60 in 6.0 sec which was quite a feat back then. It's sleek Pininfarina designed body on Ferrari's short wheelbase chassis made the car quite the little powerhouse. Scaglietti and Bizzarini had their imprint all over the car. In its brief tenure, it was quite dominant in the 3.0 liter GT class. Somewhere between 167 and 176 were produced from 1959 to 1962 making the survivors multi million dollar collector cars. I built a plastic 1/24 kit of this 250 SWB that I really liked and the CMC came out with this incredibly detailed 1/18 model and my little model went into a drawer somewhere.

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Topic starter 28/03/2026 9:13 am

@marty-johnson That Fiat transporter is such an impressive model. My retirement kinda precluded such a purchase, but I sure like looking at yours.

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