Exchange of details about cars between real specialist and official dealers are order of business.
What thankfully happens quite rarely are requests by owners whose have been stolen. Our success is, mmh, mixed. Some requests never returned any satisfactory result. Another case was solved overnight, a lucky punch of our network and attentive eyes of a good friend of ours.
Today we are reviewing a case of a subscriber that is connected with us via our sister register, the Dino Register for a longer period already. His beloved 250 GTE # 2281GT was stolen already during this year’s Oldtimer Grand Prix (OGP) at the Nürburgring. We know that Ferrari-specialized websites and forums already reported this case and that hope fades more with every new day and we know the ways that Ferraris disappears to the East, the Far East, Arabia and Asia and that often the cars remain in single components but, however, if there is a small chance you have to take it, don’t you?
# 2281GT was built in March of 1960, very probably livered in Rosso Bordeaux with Beige interior. The car was delivered new to a Signore Turrettini in Italy before it was imported into Switzerland. The car was repainted in the 1960s period colour of Grigio Conchiglia in the 1980s. Brooks Auction sold the car during the 1999 Geneva Motor Show for 262,000 French Francs with recorded 37,000 kms. In May 2003 the car was offered by Sportscars Schroeder of Langenfeld in Germany, close to the home of our chief editor and was purchased by current owner Markus Besters of Bremen. Matthias Urban saw the car personally first when Markus tried to sell it via historic car dealer Thiesen KG of Hamburg during the 2004 Techno Classica in Essen. However, love was stronger and Markus kept the car that is registered on German historic plates HB-FH 88H.
Markus kept showing the car quite often at local events, especially at the Nürburgring during the AvD’s OGP. On August 8th this year # 2281GT was stolen with its trailer that was registered HB-ZC 888.
# 2281GT should be the 44th Series I GTE related to its PF job # 39744. It is obviously fitted with its original engine tipo 128 # 2281GT with numero interno 138E. Pictures by our good friend Andreas Birner taken at the 2004 Techno Classica are confirming. Rearaxle is Type 508E, 7x32 with number 27E. The gearbox of type 508E fitted is not original, but the original one is still with Markus.
Please inform info@f-register.com or your nearest Police Station if you have any information about the whereabouts of # 2281GT. We put this request to our face book account as well. Please make sure that as many of your contacts in social media read about # 2281GT’s fate. Markus is looking for any information, especially a good one to give him the chance to get hold of # 2281GT again.
We will provide a Slide Show of # 2281GT as well, regardless how good our pictures provided will be. It’s all about retrieving # 2281GT!