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Ultimate Ferrari 250 GTO

JAMES PAGE, Porter Press International, £450, ISBN 978 1 913089 02 3

Ferrari built only 36 examples of the 250 GTO; rarely have so few cars had so many words written about them over the years. That fact, and the stratospheric prices they now command, make it all the more surprising that there’s never been a truly lavish boxed set of volumes dedicated solely to the GTO. Until now.

Any writer setting out their stall to author the definitive work of reference – the , to borrow a term from the art world – needs some pretty good credentials, and in this respect James Page can’t be faulted (he’s a regular contributor to , of course). While lamenting the ever-shrinking number of individuals associated with the GTO in its 1962-64 heyday, he’s tracked down just about all the

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