70 | GOODWOOD REVIVAL SALE
This particular Ferrari 330 GT 2+2 Coupé by Pininfarina is a left-hand
drive European 4-headlight variant featuring 4-speed transmission
with overdrive, power windows, factory seat belts and with provision
for a radio to be fitted. It was Pininfarina assembly sequence No 158
and was finished originally in Bianco 18934 M exterior paintwork with
its original interior colour Nero VM 8500. It retains its original engine
and is thus a ‘matching numbers’ example.
This ‘Series I’ 330 GT was built during the first month of the
model’s production period and it was sold new to Ferrari’s energetic
Venezuelan importer, Carlos Kauffman, in Caracas. He then supplied
it to its first private owner, Serafino Fridegotto of Caracas.
Little is recorded of the car’s central American life but we know that
it was returned to Italy from Venezuela on June 10, 1970. It was
Padua registered on September 16 that year, with the licence plate
serial ‘PD 268296’. On September 22, 1970, the car was then sold
to Assunta Ines Maria Fridegotto – presumably a relative of its original
Venezuelan owner – resident in Rovolon, Padua Province, Italy.It was then acquired on August 2, 1973, by Gianfrancesca Bertola
of Vicenza, the declared price being Lire 1,000,000. On August 28 it
was then re-registered in Vicenza as ‘VI 277727’. The car then found
its fourth owner in the shape of Fabrizio Violati’s Bellancauto SpA
company, domiciled at the Villa della Conciliazione, Rome, on April
15, 1977. The car subsequently became yet another of the exhibits
within his Collezione Maranello Rosso exhibitions halls in the Republic
of San Marino, from which it was entrusted to Bonhams for sale by
auction this past July.(^207) *
1964 Ferrari 330 Gt 2+2 series i
CoaChwork by Carrozzeria pinin Farina
Not registered in the UK
Chassis no. 5797
Engine no. 5797