The "strange entity", not a ugly duckling, not a beautiful swan, but something in between. The way it sometimes looks when something new emerges that is not the logical evolution of what was before.
10287 is the first Daytona, well, the first prototype, with clear indications of how the later icon should look like, but still with many details that come from the predecessor, the 275 GTB - including the chassis!
©Sotheby’s Sealed 2023
We in continental Europe had many and long opportunities to see the car, as it was sold to Holland by Sanders van der Velden, the brother of today's RM expert Tonnie, and Hans Hugenholtz, and the car was later a welcome guest in Apeldoorn or Maastricht . So now it's a lot in Sotheby’s Sealed auction.