Car Week draws collectors and enthusiasts from all around to globe to the Monterey Peninsula year after year for their shared passion of all things automotive. With a lengthy list of events, it’s seemingly impossible to do it all. A highlight of the week for many is visiting the array of auctions offering collector cars in search of their next caretakes. One of the standout sales of this year, a 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4 NART Alloy by Scaglietti, was an alumnus of Bacchelli & Villa. 

Beginning life as one of the extremely rare 16 alloy-bodied 275 GTB/4 berlinettas, chassis 10311 was completed in August of 1967 and exported to Luigi Chinetti Motors. It soon ended up in Chinetti’s personal assemblage where it was converted into a GT-class racecar with NART mechanics enacting a series of competition modifications. It went on to achieve 1st in class at the 1969 24 Hours of Daytona, making it the most successful of all racing 275 GTB/4s as the only car to achieve a class victory in a major international race.

In the 1980s, Bacchelli & Villa had the honor of restoring chassis 10311 following an accident. The rolling chassis and its alloy coachwork were sent to our workshop in Italy where it was faithfully restored. Once sent back to California, tags reading “ALLOY” were applied, and Chassis 10311 became the cover feature in the August/September 1987 issue of Cavallino magazine.

By 2012, chassis 10311 received Ferrari Classiche certification authenticating the presence of the matching-numbers engine, gearbox, and coachwork with a White Book issued to chronicle its racing modifications. In 2024, the 275 was sent to Motion Products Inc. for a refinish to the 1969 24 Hours of Daytona racing livery. Shortly thereafter it went on to achieve $5,285,000 at RM Sotheby’s 2024 Monterey Auction.