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Our new 250 Cabriolet Series II has been delivered by Officine Romanezzi
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Spa./Roma, an early Ferrari dealership, to its first owner Contraves Spa/Italia.
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Contraves Spa belonged to one of the most famous industrial families based in
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Zürich/Switzerland. The owner Dr. Dieter Bührle had ordered his new Cabriolet at
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Ferrari in Azzurro (light blue metallic) with a contrasting interior in Beige/tan.
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Up from 1962 Dr. Dieter Bührle had it registered in Zürich/Switzerland where it
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nearly spent all of its life being then sold in the mid sixties to Peter
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Monterverdi, the famous sportscar producer.
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It the early seventies it was bought by Kurt Bohrer, who was a master mechanic
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working for Peter Monteverdi and from time to time racing sportscars in the
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name of Peter Monteverdi or for Peter Monteverdi. Kurt Bohrer kept an eye on it
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for nearly 40 years. By the late seventies he decided to change the colour from
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Azzurro Pinin Farina into Rosso Rubino. The archive file shows quite some pics
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when the car was sitting in Kurt Bohrers garage brought back to bare metal. The
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overall mileage was listed at 51 802 km when the engine was completely rebuilt |
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In 2005 we had the chance to inspect the car at Kurt Bohrer's home garage
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having an odometer mileage of 58 250 km. In this time the engine was nicely
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running and a longer test drive was carried out with the owner. A few month later
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Kurt decided to sell it to Peter Grohe, Utwill/ Switzerland who kept it for another
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couple of years before it ended up in a German collection where we bought
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it in September 2019.
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Before purchasing we had it inspected properly realizing that there was quite
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some work left over the years especially underneath. So we immediately started
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to dismantle the whole car. The work which was carried out took in the end the
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whole winter and will be finished by the end of February 2020. Our work is
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documented by hundreds of detailed photos following each step of the
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restoration and by the invoices about labour and parts exceeding easily
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100.000,- €. By this it will be in brand new condition underneath and the engine
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compartment will be perfectly detailed. We could as well confirm that we did not |
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After having inspected the relevant and most important numbers we are able to
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confirm that it still carries its original components with their correctly stamped
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numero interna. The Tipo 128 F engine, Tipo 508 F gearbox and as well the
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Tipo 508 F differential are corresponding to the information shown in its Foglio
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Montaggio which accompanies the archive file.
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The Lettera Conferma Dati or Vehicle Production Data sheet has been issued by
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Ferrari on the 23rd of September 2019 confirming full matching numbers and
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Azzurro Pnin Farina with Beige interior as its original colour combination.
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