Apartment Find: This Ferrari 250 GT PF Coupe Was Hidden In Hollywood For Decades
Andrew Golseth: How does one just stumble upon a stowed away Ferrari?
Owner: I came across this car through a client of
mine. I had heard rumors that there was a vehicle in an apartment
building that he owned, but I never saw it. He was very closed lipped
about it. He never wanted to say much until recently. Once he came to
retirement age, he started selling things in preparation of moving out
of state.
I kind of kept badgering him about it, and eventually, he let me see
the car. I didn’t believe it when I saw it. It was literally inside a
one-bedroom unit of an apartment building in Hollywood.
AG: Do you know the story of how it ended up inside an apartment?
Owner: He is the second owner. He assembled a
five-inch binder full of documents; the car is very well documented. It
looks like, according to this binder, the car started assemblage in
October of ‘59 and finished December ‘59.
It was sold new in California to John von Neumann. Then the gentleman
that I purchased it from was the second owner, who bought it on July 29
of 1975. I gathered that he enjoyed the car for probably eight years or
so, into the early 80s. From the records, it seems like he started to
restore the vehicle. At that point, he actually had the engine
completely redone by Briggs Cunningham’s shop. I don’t know why exactly,
but he told me that Hollywood was a rough area of town, so he wanted to
store it away somewhere safe.
He decided the best place to put it was to cut open a wall in one of
the apartment buildings he owned and park it inside, completely intact,
and seal it back so nobody could tell anything was in there. That’s
where it’s been since around 1985.
(Petrolicious.com)
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