---
title: "This is What $30 Million of Ferrari Looks Like at Speed"
description: "Say “Hi”—and soon “Bye”—to the last of the Ferrari NART Spiders."
date: "2016-04-25"
modified: "2016-04-25"
authors:
  - name: "Ben Keeshin"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/ben-keeshin"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/vintage/3167/this-is-what-30-million-of-ferrari-looks-like-at-speed"
categories:
  - "Ferrari News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
tags:
  - "Auction"
  - "Ferrari"
---

# This is What $30 Million of Ferrari Looks Like at Speed

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/archive-images/0425160-30-million-ferrari-hero.jpg>)
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As we just showed in [one ludicrous slideshow](<https://www.thedrive.com/vintage/2948/the-ten-most-expensive-cars-sold-at-auction-ever>), vintage Ferraris are some of the most valuable cars on the planet. If it's red, has a five-speed and a Colombo V12, odds are that Ferrari is a seven-figure car. One of 10 high-powered, special-order convertibles hand-bodied by Scaglietti? You're looking at eight figures. This car, the 1968 Ferrari 275 GTS/4 NART Spider, is expected to go for $30 million when it's auctioned in Monaco on May 14th. That's about $2.5 million per cylinder, $5 million per Weber carburetor, or $7.5 million per Borrani wire wheel. Even for Monaco, that's rich.

![0425160-30-million-ferrari-art-1.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/0425160-30-million-ferrari-art-1.jpg>)
**Tom Gidden/RM Sotheby's**

Though it's not the car that starred with Faye Dunaway and Steve McQueen in *The Thomas Crowne Affair*, it's led a similarly glamorous life. The only NART car sold in Europe, this *rosso* Ferrari 275 was sold to a Spanish colonel, and may or may not have been taken round trip to northern Africa. It was then bought by a Brit who brought to England and repainted it with the deep red you see here (the original was grey) before being transferred to a Swiss owner. The Alps make for good driving, don't you know.

https://youtube.com/embed/pAtqfZtzdJI

As perhaps the world's most valuable Ferrari convertible, chances are this 275, once purchased, will be shuttled quickly into a climate-controlled garage; you won't see it under power unless you happen to be the caretaker of some Saudi prince's underground car vault. Take the chance now, then, to see what $30 million looks like under full throttle. Until they learn how to motorize a mansion, this is it.

![0425160-30-million-ferrari-art-2.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/0425160-30-million-ferrari-art-2.jpg>)
**Tom Gidden/RM Sotheby's**

## Author
Ben Keeshin is a former staff writer for Maxim, and before that, contributed writing to the digital sides of Road & Track and Vanity Fair.

### Author social links  
[Twitter](<https://twitter.com/BnKshn>)