Books
Ferrari 250 GTE
DAVID WHEELER, Porter Press International, £90, ISBN 978 1 913089 20 7
Remember that old Enzo Ferrari adage, that he built road cars only in order to fund his racing activities? Well, this is the car those racers owe the greatest debt to. Ferrari built 950 of them, in three series, from 1960 and through 1963. It was by far the most numerous of the 250 series, and this book was published in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the GTE’s launch.
It’s certainly a thorough tome: 432 pages of large-format hardback, complete with more than 650 photographs, many from the archives (period black-and-white shots, blueprints, advertising) and many shot more recently in full colour. Even up front in the introduction there’s a little anecdote I hadn’t read before: the reason for the ‘GTE’ name. Put simply, the full nomenclature of 250 Gran Turismo Pininfarina Coupé 2+2 is
