Why Buy a Ferrari GTC4Lusso When You Can Get This Vignale Shooting Brake?
This rebodied 330 GT is much more interesting than a new Ferrari shooting brake. It even has a manual transmission.
By Collin Woodard and Brian Silvestro
Erik Fuller courtesy of RM Sotheby's
If you're currently in the market for a practical Ferrari, the clumsily named GTC4Lusso is your ride of choice. Its rear hatch and all-wheel drive practically make it a family car, but under the hood, it packs a decidedly not-family-car0 680-horsepower V12. But if that's a little too mainstream for your liking, could we perhaps interest you in this 1965 Ferrari 330 GT Shooting Brake?
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Set to be auctioned off by RM Sotheby's during its Petersen Automotive Museum event in December, this custom Ferrari 330 GT definitely didn't come like this from the factory. It was rebodied by the famous Italian coachbuilder Vignale in the late 1960s. If you can't see any 330 in its design, we don't blame you—every single body panel has been changed. The 4.0-liter Colombo V12 appears to have gone untouched, however, presumably still making its original 300 horsepower.
Whether this car is an improvement over the original 330 GT is obviously a matter of personal opinion. But it'll certainly stand out in a crowd. Heck, it'll even stand out at a Ferrari convention. A one-of-a-kind Ferrari wagon tends to do that.
According to Autoblog, the car was given a full restoration in the 1990s. If you know your custom-bodied Ferraris, you'll know this is the same Vignale owned by Jamiroquai singer Jay Kay—though when he owned it, the car was painted metallic green with a gold roof. Now it wears a much more subtle rose gold finish.
RM has yet to list an estimate for the Vignale's sale price, but it was last auctioned at Pebble Beach in 2017 via Gooding & Company with an estimate of $700,000 to $900,000. Considering the rarity of this thing, that seems like a bargain to us.
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