I think I’ve well established, in this space, my bona fides as an old school Ferrari snob. I grew up around the Ferrari Owner’s Club in the 1970s, so I have a reasonably warped sense of what a Ferrari is and isn’t. Part of my “warpage”, if you will, was being taken on several hot laps, at Laguna Seca —at a dangerously impressionable age — in a 365 GTB/4 “Daytona”. As a prepubescent boy, that shit will mess you up for life.
So with that said, I certainly understand why the collector car world goes gaga over the Daytona. It’s really one of the last, and arguably greatest, “Enzo-era” Ferrari V-12 road cars. And, as such, it has a price tag that lives up to the hype—$1.3 million for a concours standard GTB. But what if I told you there was an alternative, a “poor man’s” alternative, that has been all but forgotten by the collector cognoscenti and provides the same basic mechanicals, in a… prepare to gasp… more comfortable and better-looking package… for a fraction of the price?
