#0735 is a 250 GT Pinin Farina Cabriolet of the first series. It was the Factory’s show car at 1957’s IAA in Frankfurt and then sold to Angela Muenemann from Munich and registered on German plates M-HM 500. In the aftermath the car received the outside plug engine from #1213GT, a Series II prototype and in addition disc brakes and bigger wheels. The next time the car showed up was with Englishman Colin Crabbe of Baston who registered the car on plates AFK 88. It seems that the car was or became Red during Crabbe’s ownership. Furthermore the car became a RHD-conversion done by Brian Angliss who did a repair of a front nose damage as well.
While the original engine went to Eugenio Amoruso after 1983, the car was offered by Brain Classic Ltd. of Bucklow Hill and was sold first to Frenchman Bernard Legeay before returning to Britain with Nick Harley.
At the end of 1998, the car was to be found on the lot list of Brooks famous Gstaad auction where it was sold for SFr. 482,000 before joining Talacrest’s stable the month after. It was scheduled for Coys International Historic Festival auction, but was acquired in a pre-sale by Karl-Gustav Diederichs of Remscheid in Germany. Remscheid is the neighbouring town to the editor’s domicile…
Diederichs’ shows the car now and then. It is now livered perfectly in a Grigio Ferro kind of colour with a Bordeaux interior, the car has been re-converted to its correct LHD-configuration and shows covered headlights. The plates “M-HM 500” have returned to the car as well.
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