RM Sotheby’s will return to the Louvre Palace’s Salles du Carrousel on 28 January 2026 for the 13th running of its Paris collector car auction, and has announced three historically significant Ferraris among the highlights.
Leading the trio is a 1960 Ferrari 250 GT California Spider SWB by Scaglietti. Chassis 1915 GT is the 3rd of 56 short-wheelbase examples built and one of only 39 originally configured with covered headlamps. Delivered new to Paris, it comes to auction from 30 years of single-owner care, with only five documented keepers from new, and is estimated at €12,000,000 to €14,000,000.
Completed in September 1960, the car was displayed on the Ferrari stand at that year’s Paris Motor Show by the marque dealer Franco Britannic Autos. Originally finished in Bianco over a Nero interior, it passed through a series of French owners, including Pierre Liechti, Micheline Dalbard, and Roland Deteurtre, and was later repainted red. In 1996 it was sold to the consigning owner, who commissioned a two-year restoration by Carrozzeria Campana Onorio in Modena that refinished the coachwork in Nero. It carries Ferrari Classiche “ Red Book” certification confirming its matching-numbers chassis, engine, rear axle, and coachwork, most recently reissued in November 2025.
The second car is a 1967 Ferrari Dino 206 S, chassis 032, the last of only 13 examples built with Piero Drogo-designed Spyder bodywork and believed to be one of only two fitted with the more powerful Tipo 233 engine and Lucas fuel injection. Sold new to Corrado Ferlaino, the longtime owner of the Napoli football club, it later joined the Ferrari collections of Pierre Bardinon and Jacques Setton before passing to British owners Robs Lamplough and Carlos Monteverde, who raced it in the Ferrari Historic Challenge. It has since been fully restored at the Ferrari factory and certified with a Red Book, and is estimated at €3,800,000 to €4,200,000.
Completing the group is a 1997 Ferrari F310 B, chassis 179, driven by seven-time Formula 1 World Champion Michael Schumacher during the 1997 Belgian Grand Prix weekend and raced by Eddie Irvine at the Italian and Austrian Grands Prix. After its works career it was sold by Ferrari in 1999 and passed through collectors in Germany and the United States, appearing in Ferrari F1 Clienti events, before being acquired by the Audrain Auto Museum in Newport, Rhode Island, in 2014. Certified by Ferrari Classiche in January 2007, it is offered with its Red Book and a number of spare parts.
(Press Release)
