2935GT 9/61 250 GT SWB California Spider Paris Motor Show car dark Blue/Nero vinyl dark Blue Top LHD EU eng. # 2935GT eng. # interno 610E gear box # 8.61 rear axle # 383F covered headlights, ex-Jacques Baillon collection
27.9.61 - completed
5. – 15.10.61 – displayed at Paris Motor Show . During the first week of the show, a 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso (#2917), a 250 GTE and a 250 cabriolet series II were on show on the Franco-Britannic stand. The Ferrari 250 SWB berlinetta was sold at the start of the show and was replaced in the second week by 250 California #2935.
10/61 - purchased by Gérard Blain
21.10.61 – first registered on 88 LR 75 by Gérard Blain, 9 rue de Siam, Paris XVIe arrondissement, Gérard Blain was already an established film actor. He was 31, with some twenty films to his name and a passion for Ferrari convertibles. He had just returned his Ferrari 250 GT Series 1 0737GT (the 1957 Paris Motor Show car) to the Ferrari importer Franco-Britannic Autos.
63 – purchased by Alain Delon (2nd owner)
23.5.63 - registered in Monaco, 4452 MC, by Alain Delon. The Ferrari shared these great moments with the celebrity actor and photos show him at the wheel of the Spider 2935GT, in the company of actresses Jane Fonda and Shirley MacLaine, themselves stars admired worldwide.
64 - Alain Delon and his wife Nathalie travelled to California. The actor had the car sent out so that he could enjoy driving it around the streets of Los Angeles. It must have been at this time that the indicator lights on the side of the front wings were changed to correspond with American regulations. Under the passenger seat we found the original round indicator lights in their box! In a photo taken in the United States in 1964, the Ferrari California is spotted at a gas station, with Nathalie Delon, while her husband checks the tyre pressures. In another photo, the couple are seen in Los Angeles, riding in their car.
7/65 – for sale by Alain Delon via Michel Maria Urman Automobiles, 40 bis rue Guersant, Paris XVIIe
2.8.65 - Paul Bouvot (3rd owner), 37,000 km, 30,000 FF. Marc Bouvot, the son of the third owner, found the original plates 4452 MC that his father kept after buying the car from Alain Delon. Paul Bouvot ran the Style Centre of Peugeot
18.8.65 - registered by Paul Bouvot 6101 RU 75
5/66 - purchased by Robert Cooper (4th owner), a Canadian living in Paris
11/66 - offered by Jess Pourret in the name of Cooper
66 – sold to a Parisian sports car enthusiast
10/67 - purchased by a doctor from Paris
11/71 - purchased by Jacques Baillon as addition to his collection, tax stickers from 1971 to 1975 have been found unused with the car in 2014
30.9.14 – “barn-find” by Artcurial
6.2.15 - Artcurial's Retromobile Auction, Lot 59 est. 9,500,000 - 12,000,000 €, 546 LV 79, F