My good friend Paul from Veloce Publishing Ltd in England is helping organize what is sure to be an amazing gathering in what already has to be the single most awe inspiring automotive gathering there is… The Monterey Historics & Pebble Beach Concours D’Elegance Car Week.
Paul writes;
Ferrari 288 GTO owners are being invited to join what will be a truly unique and spectacular event, a gathering of Ferrari 288 GTOs to celebrate the model’s 25th anniversary.
288 GTO specialist Joe Sackey is organizing the first-ever reunion of the cars in the USA, to be staged during the famed Monterey Historics & Pebble Beach Concours D’Elegance Car Week in California during August 2009.
Interested 288 GTO owners and enthusiasts can find details and news of the event on Joe’s website. Don’t miss it!
Successor to the legendary Ferrari 250 GTO. The “O” in 288 GTO stands for “Omologato” (homologation), showing that these cars with their period F1-based technology were intended for the world’s racetracks. However, the premature end of the Group B race series meant that the 284 examples built were never raced and were instead sold as road cars with phenomenal performance to a lucky few owners. First of a series of iconic Ferrari Supercars in the modern era, the 288 GTO spawned the legendary F40, F50 and the Enzo models.
Joe Sackey, author of the much-acclaimed “The Lamborghini Miura Bible” (Veloce) is in the process of writing the ultimate book on the Ferrari 288 GTO for publication by Veloce sometime in 2010.
For more information contact John Kitching john@veloce.co.uk
Veloce Publishing Ltd., 33 Trinity Street, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1TT, England.
www.velocebooks.com
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Gary-I had the pleasure of following a 288 GTO on the backroads of CT after a visit to Lime Rock in my Alfa Spyder when I was on summer break from college. A stunning car, and possibly the most underappreciated Ferrari super car ever built.
Its funny you should mention that Tom.
A couple of years ago, we visited the opening of the Canadian Motorsports Hall of Fame at Legendary Motorcar (the home of Dream Car Garage) and we had the pleasure of following an actual F40 along the highway.
A guy on a sportbike of some sort came flying up in the left lane, blew by us and then slowed back down to look at the car. He cracked the throttle a couple of times and the guy in the F40 bit. We were in a 280ish hp Maxima, traveling at about 80 mph. I hammered the throttle at the same time as the bike & the F40. They left us like we were tied to a tree…at 80 mph!!! On every shift, there was a little burp of flame from both of the Ferrari’s pipes.
California has tons of wicked cars, but there is also a lot of money here in Toronto and us crazy Canadians actually drive cars like the F40 on regular roads.