A Ferrari Testarossa styled as a topless spider car will go under the hammer on November 5, 2022. Ferrari itself did not mass-produce the Spider, so this example comes from Pininfarina. The expected selling price is between £1.4 and £1.8 million.
The Maranello company churned out 7,177 Testarossa coupes in 1984–1991. Despite pleas from fans to make an open-top variant, the company only built one such example in 1986, which it presented to Gianni Agnelli, the CEO of Fiat back at the time.
Multiple tuners started their own Testarossa Spider conversion projects, Pininfarina included. The Italian coachbuilder even made a set of seven such cars for the Sultan of Brunei and his family. It never revealed the total number of cars produced.
This particular example emerged from the garage in 1989. It is still powered by its stock 4.9-liter flat-12 engine mated to a five-speed manual transmission driving the rear axle. The mileage of 256 miles (413 kilometers) makes it almost new.
Back in its glory days, the engine produced between 370 and 390 PS (365–385 hp; 272–287 kW, respectively). Based on the specific configuration, the original coupe ran 0-100 km/h (0-62 mph) in 5.7 to 6.1 seconds. Chances are good that the Spider conversion has greater weight and inferior aerodynamic performance, but Pininfarina never released any details.
