With it’s looks more closely related to the Ferrari 250 GT Cabriolet than any of it’s similarly 3.3 litre V12 powered 275 siblings, as I noted earlier this year the 200 275 GTS convertibles built are the odd balls of the Ferrari 275 family.

Today’s featured car, seen at the recent Silverstone classic was imported into the UK by Maranello Concessionaires in 1965 and first registered in the UK on the 19th of July the same year, #07395 appears to have kept it’s original registration ever since.

The only named owner detectable for chassis #07395 is shown as 1980 Formula One World Champion Alan Jones though no specific dates are given for when he acquired or disposed of the car. The car is shown as having been at Christie’s Beaulieu auction on the 14th of July 1986 by which time, if Alan still owned the car, he had probably come to the conclusion that restarting his Formula One career with Team Haas was probably not going to bear the fruits he was expecting, #07395 is said to have been sold for £47,500 including buyers premium to an undisclosed purchaser.

Thanks for joining me on this “Alan’s Spyder” edition of “Gettin’ a li’l psycho on tyres” I hope you will join me again tomorrow. Don’t forget to come back now !