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Coming Soon: 640 Mile 2001 Ferrari 550 Barchetta<\/b><\/p>\n
From Little Boat to Legend:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
The Story of the Barchetta,<\/p>\n
In 1948, an Italian journalist looked at a radical new Touring-bodied Ferrari 166 and nicknamed it \u201cBarchetta\u201d, little boat. The name stuck. A year later, that same doorless, roofless racer did the impossible: chassis 0008M won the Mille Miglia outright, then went straight to Le Mans, where Luigi Chinetti drove nearly the entire 24 hours himself to deliver Ferrari\u2019s first-ever Le Mans victory, and the first Le Mans win for a V12 engine. To this day, it remains the only car to win both races on the same chassis.<\/p>\n
Fifty years later, Ferrari reached back for that name to crown something equally special. The 550 Barchetta Pininfarina launched at the 2000 Paris Motor Show as a birthday tribute to Pininfarina\u2019s 70th anniversary, a true, top-optional roadster, limited to 448 examples, each with a dashboard plaque signed personally by Sergio Pininfarina\u00a0A nickname born on a racetrack. A legend reborn as a birthday gift.<\/p>\n
This is that car.<\/p>\n
Stay tuned \u2014 details and pricing coming soon.<\/p>\n
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