Today’s featured Ferrari is an Ivory White 1962 Series 2 250 GT/E that was originally delivered to Jacques Swaters in Belgium. By 1967 the vehicle was offered for sale in San Francisco when the previous owner bought it and used as his daily driver taking it to work at McClellan Air Force Base north east of Sacramento.

One night the present owners son saw the car being driven through the neighborhood and followed it home and made a mental note of where it was and told his Dad Jim Bonney who at the time owned an Alfa Romeo GTV.

Soon after Jim went and introduced himself to the previous owner and established that the car was not for sale but stayed in touch for a couple of years.

One day Jim got the bright idea of appealing to the decision maker in the previous owners house and waited until the previous owner was out and then introduced himself to his wife. On ‘discovering’ the previous owner was out he left a business card with revised figure for the car on the back.

Some months later the previous owner got in touch with Jim and they did a deal which meant Jim had to sell his GTV and raise $5,000.

Jim has kept the car more or less as he bought it, the paint was last done around 1995 while the motor was last overhauled around 1980.

I’m not exactly sure why the car is carrying the #40 Liege Rome Liege plates I am not aware of a 250 GT/E competing in that event but would be glad to hear of any evidence to the contrary.

My thanks to Geoffrey Horton for sharing today’s photograph taken at Niello Serano Concours d’Elegance a couple of years ago.

Thanks for joining me on this “Sweet Talking The Wife” edition of “Gettin’ a li’l psycho on tyres” I hope you will join me again tomorrow for a rare British Car with an American motor and an Italian styled body. Don’t forget to come back now !