Do a Goolag search for the world’s most valuable car (or maybe the world’s most valuable classic car) and I can tell you without hesitation what hit you will get:
Try to let that sink in… Seventy…. Million…. Dollars….
Now, myself, I just can’t see buying one of these; I mean, sure, I could, but it just seems so over the top…especially when I could get a nice ’66 Mustang fastback for about 0.07% of the price…
But I can build a HO scale slot car model, thanks to the fine folks at Road Race Replicas, who made this gorgeous piece they market as the “Legendary GT” (is the term “250GTO” copyrighted?). As with the white Cobra Daytona Coupe I profiled the previous day, this is my 3rd and, likely, final copy of this car. Building this one was a bit of a challenge as it required making some modifications to the chassis gear plate rails, grinding them down at the leading and trailing edges in order to get the chassis to fit just right to fit the full-sized silicone tires on those lovely wire wheels. But the results speak for themselves.
If you think this blue and gold color isn’t accurate, I’ll beg to differ: GTO #2 is finished in a metallic blue quite similar to this, albeit with a white stripe rather than gold. Since I sadly missed the black and yellow issue, not becoming aware of it until it was sold out, this blue one was one of the last remaining options (which I chose over metallic green) and completes a trio that includes yellow/orange and red/gold, all fitted with the same RRR wire wheels, because…what else would you use?! Befitting a model of a car of this caliber, she is equipped with the best of the best, including brass pickup shoes and OS3 Black Dragon high performance magnets, and its wide, low ground-hugging stance makes it corner like a tiger.
In real life, the 250GTO is far from my favorite Ferrari: that title goes to its slightly less exclusive little brother, the SWB Berlinetta, which is in the running for my pick of the most beautiful car ever made. But the market has spoken quite clearly on this, and since this 1:87 copy is as close as I’ll ever come to the real thing, I’m ready to put it up against Carol Shelby’s challenge car and see how it shakes out! Results coming soon, dear readers, as I’m planning an entire post on “Ford VS Ferrari in HO” as soon as Drag City Mk IV officially opens…which, at this writing, is just around the corner!
