Ferrari 365 GTS/4 Daytona Spider - 1973
Chassis n° 16949
- Delivered new to Chinetti Garthwaite Imports, USA
- Matching numbers (chassis, engine, gearbox)
- Ferrari Classiche certified
- Restored by Ferrari to EU specification
- Same ownership since 1988
Bonhams : The Zoute Sale
Important Collectors' Motor Cars
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Estimated : € 2.200.000 - 2.500.000
Not sold
Zoute Grand Prix Car Week 2025
Knokke - Zoute
België - Belgium
October 2025
"It's a hard muscled thoroughbred, the Daytona - easily the most awesome and yet disciplined road-going Ferrari in that firm's brilliant quarter century of existence. The Daytona isn't fast – it's blinding. It will eat up a quarter-mile of asphalt in 13.2 seconds at 110mph and scream out to 175mph - or it will slug through traffic at 1,500rpm with the Sunday manners of a FIAT. It is the perfect extension of its driver. You can cut and weave through shuffling traffic with the agility of a halfback, or lope down the freeway with the piece of mind that comes from knowing you can contend with anyone's incompetence. To say, after you've driven it, that the Daytona is desirable doesn't begin to sum up your feelings - you would sell your soul for it." - Car & Driver, January 1970.
Every Ferrari is, to a greater or lesser extent, a 'landmark' car, but few of Maranello's road models have captured the imagination of Ferraristi like the 365 GTB/4. The ultimate expression of Ferrari's fabulous line of V12 front-engined sports cars, the 365 GTB/4 debuted at the Paris Salon in 1968, soon gaining the unofficial name 'Daytona' in honour of Ferrari's 1-2-3 finish at that circuit in 1967. Aggressively styled by Pininfarina, Ferrari's new sports car boldly restated the traditional 'long bonnet, small cabin, short tail' look in a manner which suggested muscular horsepower 'a la AC Cobra while retaining all the elegance associated with the Italian coachbuilder's work for Maranello. An unusual feature was a full-width transparent panel covering the headlamps, though this was replaced by electrically-operated pop-up lights to meet US requirements soon after the start of production in the second half of 1969.
In response to Lamborghini, Ferrari's road-car V12 had gained four overhead camshafts during production of the 275GTB (cars thus equipped acquiring a '/4' suffix) and in the Daytona displaced 4,390cc. Power output was 352bhp at 7,500rpm, with maximum torque of 318lb/ft available at 5,500 revs. Dry-sump lubrication permitted a low engine installation, while a five-speed transaxle enabled 50/50 front/rear weight distribution to be achieved. The chassis embodied long-standing Ferrari practice - being comprised of oval-section tubing - the all-independent wishbone and coil-spring suspension was a more-recent development though, having originated in the preceding 275GTB.
Unlike the contemporary 365GTC/4, the Daytona was not available with power steering, a feature then deemed inappropriate for a 'real' sports car. There was, however, servo assistance for the four-wheel ventilated disc brakes. Air conditioning - vital for the US market - was optional, but elsewhere the Daytona remained uncompromisingly focussed on delivering nothing less than superlative high performance. Although overshadowed in some respects by the mid-engined Lamborghini Miura, the Daytona gave nothing away to its rival in terms of straight-line speed. With a maximum velocity in excess of 170mph, it was the fastest production car of its day. "The Ferrari 365GTB/4 is the best sports car in the world," wrote Road & Track magazine in 1970. "Or the best GT. Take your choice; it's both."
Although there had been no official open-top version of its predecessor, the favourable reception of Luigi Chinetti's 275GTB-based NART Spyder no doubt influenced Ferrari's decision to produce a convertible Daytona. Again the work of Pininfarina, the latter was first seen at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 1969, with deliveries commencing in 1971. Although the rear end had been extensively reworked, so successful was Pininfarina's surgery that it was hard to credit that the Daytona had not initially been conceived as a spyder.
In all, Ferrari manufactured around 122 Daytona Spyders (published figures vary from 121 to 124). Number 101 of the series, this stunning example was delivered in December 1973 to Chinetti Garthwaite Imports in the USA. The car was originally finished in Rosso Chiaro with Nero Connolly leather interior and left the factory equipped with air conditioning, a radio and Cromodora alloy wheels (it is currently fitted with Borrani wires but Cromodora wheels will come with it).
The current owner purchased the Ferrari in 1988 from Graber Automobile AG in Bern, Switzerland. In 2010 the Daytona was sent to Ferrari in Modena to be fully restored to its original colours and converted to European specification. It is worthwhile noting that the original leather upholstery has been retained, thus endowing the interior with a lovely patina. A truly beautiful example of one of the rarest and most sought-after Ferraris, '16949' comes is complete with jack, tools, instruction manuals, documents,the aforementioned Cromodora wheels and, of course, the all important Ferrari Classiche certification.
Ferrari 365 GTS/4 Daytona Spider - 1973
Chassis n° 16949
- Delivered new to Chinetti Garthwaite Imports, USA
- Matching numbers (chassis, engine, gearbox)
- Ferrari Classiche certified
- Restored by Ferrari to EU specification
- Same ownership since 1988
Bonhams : The Zoute Sale
Important Collectors' Motor Cars
The Zoute Grand Prix Gallery
Estimated : € 2.200.000 - 2.500.000
Not sold
Zoute Grand Prix Car Week 2025
Knokke - Zoute
België - Belgium
October 2025
"It's a hard muscled thoroughbred, the Daytona - easily the most awesome and yet disciplined road-going Ferrari in that firm's brilliant quarter century of existence. The Daytona isn't fast – it's blinding. It will eat up a quarter-mile of asphalt in 13.2 seconds at 110mph and scream out to 175mph - or it will slug through traffic at 1,500rpm with the Sunday manners of a FIAT. It is the perfect extension of its driver. You can cut and weave through shuffling traffic with the agility of a halfback, or lope down the freeway with the piece of mind that comes from knowing you can contend with anyone's incompetence. To say, after you've driven it, that the Daytona is desirable doesn't begin to sum up your feelings - you would sell your soul for it." - Car & Driver, January 1970.
Every Ferrari is, to a greater or lesser extent, a 'landmark' car, but few of Maranello's road models have captured the imagination of Ferraristi like the 365 GTB/4. The ultimate expression of Ferrari's fabulous line of V12 front-engined sports cars, the 365 GTB/4 debuted at the Paris Salon in 1968, soon gaining the unofficial name 'Daytona' in honour of Ferrari's 1-2-3 finish at that circuit in 1967. Aggressively styled by Pininfarina, Ferrari's new sports car boldly restated the traditional 'long bonnet, small cabin, short tail' look in a manner which suggested muscular horsepower 'a la AC Cobra while retaining all the elegance associated with the Italian coachbuilder's work for Maranello. An unusual feature was a full-width transparent panel covering the headlamps, though this was replaced by electrically-operated pop-up lights to meet US requirements soon after the start of production in the second half of 1969.
In response to Lamborghini, Ferrari's road-car V12 had gained four overhead camshafts during production of the 275GTB (cars thus equipped acquiring a '/4' suffix) and in the Daytona displaced 4,390cc. Power output was 352bhp at 7,500rpm, with maximum torque of 318lb/ft available at 5,500 revs. Dry-sump lubrication permitted a low engine installation, while a five-speed transaxle enabled 50/50 front/rear weight distribution to be achieved. The chassis embodied long-standing Ferrari practice - being comprised of oval-section tubing - the all-independent wishbone and coil-spring suspension was a more-recent development though, having originated in the preceding 275GTB.
Unlike the contemporary 365GTC/4, the Daytona was not available with power steering, a feature then deemed inappropriate for a 'real' sports car. There was, however, servo assistance for the four-wheel ventilated disc brakes. Air conditioning - vital for the US market - was optional, but elsewhere the Daytona remained uncompromisingly focussed on delivering nothing less than superlative high performance. Although overshadowed in some respects by the mid-engined Lamborghini Miura, the Daytona gave nothing away to its rival in terms of straight-line speed. With a maximum velocity in excess of 170mph, it was the fastest production car of its day. "The Ferrari 365GTB/4 is the best sports car in the world," wrote Road & Track magazine in 1970. "Or the best GT. Take your choice; it's both."
Although there had been no official open-top version of its predecessor, the favourable reception of Luigi Chinetti's 275GTB-based NART Spyder no doubt influenced Ferrari's decision to produce a convertible Daytona. Again the work of Pininfarina, the latter was first seen at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 1969, with deliveries commencing in 1971. Although the rear end had been extensively reworked, so successful was Pininfarina's surgery that it was hard to credit that the Daytona had not initially been conceived as a spyder.
In all, Ferrari manufactured around 122 Daytona Spyders (published figures vary from 121 to 124). Number 101 of the series, this stunning example was delivered in December 1973 to Chinetti Garthwaite Imports in the USA. The car was originally finished in Rosso Chiaro with Nero Connolly leather interior and left the factory equipped with air conditioning, a radio and Cromodora alloy wheels (it is currently fitted with Borrani wires but Cromodora wheels will come with it).
The current owner purchased the Ferrari in 1988 from Graber Automobile AG in Bern, Switzerland. In 2010 the Daytona was sent to Ferrari in Modena to be fully restored to its original colours and converted to European specification. It is worthwhile noting that the original leather upholstery has been retained, thus endowing the interior with a lovely patina. A truly beautiful example of one of the rarest and most sought-after Ferraris, '16949' comes is complete with jack, tools, instruction manuals, documents,the aforementioned Cromodora wheels and, of course, the all important Ferrari Classiche certification.