Monterey Car Week is currently underway and we have a feeling heads would be exploding if this eBay listing made the rounds. You see, Montery Car Week, Pebble Beach, whatever you’d like to call it is all about the finest, most pristine automobiles. This Ferrari 250 GTE is none of those.
In fact, it’s had its Italian heart ripped out and replaced with a Chevrolet small-block V8 engine—the same mill found in thousands of Chevrolet Camaros. According to the seller, $150,000 has gone into the build, and strangely, he or she insisted some components remain original to the Ferrari. For example, the seller went to great lengths to source a legitimate Ferrari windshield and rubber seals.
Elsewhere, it’s a mashup of ‘Murica. The nine-inch rear end comes from Ford and the six-speed manual transmission has been taken from a Dodge Viper. Red, white, blue, and green run through this Ferrari’s veins. Oh, and just to complicate it further, this paint is from Mitsubishi.
The auction ends today with a current price of $120,000. Is this an amazing machine? Or totally crazy on the builder’s behalf?
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looks like a car I read about last month, this model Ferrari is used as a parts car for higher trim models, genuine parts are not available to rebuild it so other parts were used to salvage the body.
The choice was do it this way or junk the body.
Redline in Cincinnati Ohio was churning out LS powered 355s and 348s like crazy for a while.
Putting in the LS cost about the same as a the engine out service cost in the ferrari, but you got much better reliability and a big performance boost. there’s probably 50+ of those running around down here.
A chevy engine should only be installed in a GM vehicles
I hate when people do this
The GM small block, and the Chev small block before it, would never have the social presence or be able to reach a unmatched level of aftermarket saturation if the engine wasn’t so easily adaptable to nearly every car ever made.
And what’s there not to like? It’s a victim of its own success. Light weight, compact, physically small, endless part configuration, and found in applications the world over in land, sea, and air.
If anything, the small block is the rightful anti-thesis to your idea of proprietary garden were the small block is seen as sacred.
Small block Chevy engine should be installed in everything. If you put a Chevy engine in some offbrand car, right away that fixes half of what is wrong with the car.