One of my personal fantasies has been to squirrel away rare parts for years and years and let patience be my guide in terms of cashing in later on. Unfortunately, I’ve sold more than I’ve kept, typically to justify funding project purchases or maintenance fixes. So, once again, to do it right you need to start with boatloads of cash in order to hoard effectively. Someone did just that, socking away multiple shipping containers full of rare NOS parts for some of the most collectible Ferrari models ever made. Find the full story here on MSN.com and if you’re curious what’s going under the hammer in a few days, well – that’s a genuine Ferrari F40 motor in the picture above.
Are you in the market for some new old stock Ferrari 250 GTO pistons? That’s available, should you be restoring one in need of an engine rebuild. The whole collection is viewable on the Coys Auction website, listed as the Cavalino Hoard, quite appropriately. There’s 24 pages of various parts lot, some of which truly blow your mind as to who on earth had the foresight to collect and store so many intricate parts that likely found few buyers when their shelf life expired.
But it’s not only that Mr. Cavalino grabbed several truckloads of spares – he snared them for some of Ferrari’s most iconic models: the F40, 250 GTO, 275 GTB, and so on. Parts for the cars that today are lovingly and obsessively restored back to showroom condition only using OEM Ferrari parts. I can only imagine that multiple restoration shops are foaming at the mouth at the possibility of putting some of these components into long-stalled projects for owners who demanded new in the box and period-correct parts. Check out these new old stock Ferrari 12-cylinder exhaust manifolds – what do you think these will sell for?
While they aren’t necessarily the most valuable, the most obvious source of eye-candy is the serious wheel collection the previous owner amassed. He seemed to have an eye for the crazy wide competition spec rollers that rarely come up for sale. Hell, Coys apparently even has Borrani wire wheels still in their original shipping boxes, but for me, it has to be a set of four Campagnolo wheels in gold paint that I’d love to slap onto a track-prepped 380 GTB. Check out the full collection and let us know which lot you’d love to take home. Do any of you have major collections of spare parts in the basement?
Don’t be ridiculous. The shop hasn’t got a basement.
I’d love to hook those headers up just to hear what they sound like!
“cavalino” means little horse in Italian.
Try this for Italian!
Ever heard of that lovely sausage called Mortadella. That translates to Morta meaning “dead” and Della meaning “horse”.
Enjoyed your mortadella sandwich did you?
Save those pennies, someday you could drive a Ferrari too !
Personally I detest them. OK, which one am I writing about??
Really? “Cavallo” is horse. Lay off the grappa.
You may be sorta right, I should have said “mare”. Too many people cannot distinguish a mare from a gelding, let alone they are both terms used for horses.
Ding ding- mortadella is the BEST BOLOGNI in the world n it’s not from
OSCAR MEYER-
gabbagool! Not bologna!!
The reason that there are so many spare parts is that Ferrari owners don’t put any miles on their cars to actually need them. Well, they do go through a lot of timing belts, but that’s due to age rather than wear.
History has shown, shipping containers are the perfect place to stash stolen goods,,,
Interesting theory, but I would guess Coy’s has too much to lose by trafficking in stolen goods, and have done their due diligence to the extreme on this lot.
I have a half of a garage full of ford parts. It’s called a 66 Mustang. LMAO This is a cool find though. I thought of doing something similar while I was stationed in Germany in the 80’s used parts were dirt cheap. Fill a few containers with used BMW and Mercedes parts and then send them to the USA in 20 years and cash out. Yeah that didn’t happen for many reasons.
It would be very hard to go past the F40 steering wheel to hang in the man cave. Having said that, it uses a standard Momo boss kit. Therefore you could fit it to almost any car that you like and then dream!