Though Ferrari had already been manufacturing celebrated performance vehicles for roadways and racetracks for a couple of decades, a case could be made Enzo and his design team really hit their stride in the 1960s. Not surprisingly, vehicles from that era are extremely sought after at auction, and tend to bring in some of the higher sales numbers when the gavel falls. That was certainly the case for a 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4 NART Spider convertible when it was offered up in 2013.
If you’re wondering what the NART designation means, it stands for North American Racing Team, whom the Spider was commissioned for. As the story goes, it was NA Ferrari dealer Luigi Chinetti who convinced Enzo Ferrari to give the 275 the Spider treatment, initially ordering 25 of the vehicles. In the end, only 10 were ever built, ranking them among the rarest Ferraris around.
However, that only explains part of this Ferrari’s massive auction price. Making the particular Ferrari 275 NART Spider that sold for close to $30 million even rarer is its ties to a Hollywood legend, Steve McQueen. Yes, the Spider that sold in the 2013 auction was the very same “red Italian thing” that made a brief cameo in McQueen’s 1968 classic “The Thomas Crown Affair.” With the combination of scarcity and a bona fide Hollywood tie-in, pushed the price of the ’67 Ferrari up to a whopping $27.5 million.
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