Spotted for Sale: The Story of the Michelotto Ferrari 288 GTO

We typically focus our market insights on the UK and our trusted dealer partners, but with all the buzz around Monterey Car Week, Adam messaged me with a post attached simply saying, “This needs a feature!”. That car is a very special Ferrari 288 GTO with a great story we thought you lot would love to read, so here it is.

The car — Ferrari 288 GTO Chassis #58337 — is being sold by Curated, who buy and sell blue-chip vintage supercars in Miami, Florida, after it was hidden inside a custom-built truck and trailer, in a quiet town in North Carolina.

Its first and only owner, Mr Williamson, collected it from Maranello in ’86. He and his first wife drove 92 miles to Padova on Italian tourist plates (EE 196 AK). Because the GTO was never made for the US, that’s where he handed it to Giulianno Michelotto — the same outfit that fine-tuned the 288 GTO and went on to develop the F40 — for a full “racing” conversion.

Williamson kept everything: the original wheels and tyres, the seats, insurance papers, the tourist plate, even the hotel receipt from that trip.

The car was never actually raced. It popped up at a few national Ferrari meets and local shows, and appeared at FCA events at Road Atlanta, Watkins Glen and Summit Point in the late ’80s and early ’90s. But most of the time? Out of sight.

It’s never been restored, never registered, still wears its first coat of paint, and the leather-and-cloth interior is a time capsule. Williamson started it once a month, had it serviced yearly, and put just over 12,000 kilometres on the clock.

He kept it for 40 years. As president of the regional Ferrari club, he lived and breathed the marque — ostrich-leather Cavallino boots, cheques printed with the prancing horse… the works. And at the heart of it all was this Michelotto-built GTO.

Rare in standard form. Unique in Michelotto spec. A proper unicorn.

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