1961 Ferrari 250 GTO in Milpitas, California

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This is a beautiful replica that was built from the ground up to make sure that you get the full Ferrari experience at a fraction of the price. This the same replica company and model of car was used in the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off. The center of that film featured a replica of the 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder. The company Modena, made these completely hand-built cars. Now NBS AUTO SHOWROOM is offering this amazing replica created by Modena Design and Research of El Cajon, California. These gorgeous recreation take approximately 6 months each to build. A similar car sold for $230,000 at auction. This example is an ultra low mileage stunner and is priced to go! Live the dream and call now and make this car yours. Call Robert Williams to get your questions answered. In the early 1980s California entrepreneurs Neil Glassmoyer and Mark Goyett founded Modena Design and Development in El Cajon to manufacture the Modena Spyder California, a Ferrari 250 GT Spyder-based sports car that far exceeded the quality and finish of other independent offerings of the time. An early mention of the new creation in a car magazine drew the attention of Hollywood director John Hughes, who was in the planning stages of making Ferris Bueller's Day Off, in which a valuable sports car would have a pivotal role. Neil Glassmoyer recalls the day Hughes contacted him to ask about seeing the Modena Spyder. "The first time he called I hung up on him because I thought it was a friend of mine who was given to practical jokes. Then he called back and convinced me it really was him, so Mark and I took the car to his office. While we were waiting outside to meet Hughes this scruffy-looking fellow came out of the building and began looking the car over; we thought from his appearance he must have been a janitor or something. Then he looked up at a window and shouted, This is it!' and several heads poked out to have a look. That scruffy-looking fellow was John Hughes, and the people in the window were his staff. Turned out it was between the Modena Spyder and a Porsche Turbo, and Hughes chose the Modena." http://artofgears.com/2015/06/11/ferris-buellers-day-off-and-the-1961-ferrari-250-gt-california/ "The Ferrari 250 GT Spyder California's name was most appropriate, for the man ordering it was Ferrari's influential dealer in Southern California, Johnny von Neumann. "He asked us for a simple spyder," said Girolamo Gardini, Ferrari's sales manager from 1948 to 1961. Von Neumann and the rest of the Ferrari world got that and a lot more. The Ferrari Spyder California quickly became one of the ultimate "dual-purpose" cars, machines equally at home on street and track. Such versatility underscored an integral part of the Ferrari 250 legend: the firm's ability to make a range of products with the same mechanicals but divergent "personalities." The Ferrari 250 GT Spyder California was available with lightweight aluminum coachwork or a steel body. Its chassis, suspension, and drivetrain came from the Ferrari 250 Tour de France sports racer, which itself was nearly identical to the other 250s offered at the time. While the Ferrari 250 GT Spyder California looked quite similar to the Series I Cabriolet, its interior appointments were considerably more spartan, reflecting its competition orientation." This car started out at $135,000 and is discounted daily until SOLD so get this discounted car before someone else does!