Stunning Angelina Jolie Ferrari up for sale

10/12/2024 03:00 PM

Hollywood celebrity Angelina Jolie is selling her 1958 Ferrari GT Coupe at Christie's Auctions in Paris where it's expected to fetch as much as €800,000 – almost $AU1.29 million.

The star of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Girl Interrupted and Mr & Mrs Smith is known to have a high-end car collection, but Jolie's striking black Ferrari is ultra rare as the 11th of only 353 made.

It will be part of Christie's The Exceptional Saleon 20 November 2024, which will see it sold in Paris only metres from where the model was unveiled at the Grand Palais in 1958.

The 250 GT Coupe is considered the first Ferrari to be developed as a road car, as the Italian car maker moved from building hand-crafted race cars for the road to low-volume sports car production at its brand-new Turin factory.

Styled by Italian coachbuilder (carrozzeria) Pininfarina – a relationship which would create decades of Ferrari designs – it ushered in the long-bonnet/short-tail shape used on the brand's GT (meaning 'Grand Tourer') cars right up to the 2025 Ferrari 12Cilindri supercar.

Jolie's black 1958 left-hand drive two-seat example uses the updated 'notchback' body and sits on aluminium wire wheels appearing to be from legendary Milanese wheel-maker Borrani.

As a road-focussed Ferrari, the 250 GT Coupe boasts a more luxurious cabin with stunning red leather covering the dash, doors and seats where the driver is presented with a classic wooden-rimmed three-spoke steering wheel.

The classic chrome-surround dials use crisp white-on-black font with the odometer reading 6424 miles (10,338km), while road-car niceties include a radio, door pockets, a glove box and centre console ashtray.

While developed as a road-car, the 250 GT Coupe still benefits from the Testa Rossa race car's engine Ferrari used to win the 1958 world sports car championship.

The 162kW overhead-cam 3.0-litre V12 'Colombo' petrol engine has three Weber twin-choke carburettors and a five-speed synchromesh manual gearbox powering the rear wheels – although original cars used a four-speed.

While there's little information on the car's originality – or how long the Hollywood star has owned the rare Ferrari – Christie's estimates the sleek Ferrari will be sold for between €600,000 ($AU967,000) and €800,000 ($AU1.29 million).

That doesn't seem unrealistic given Sotheby's auctioned a red 1960 version for $US280,000 ($AU411,222) in early 2023 in the United States (US), while Bonhams sold a pristine 1958 example for $US1,193,000 ($AU1,752,099) also in the US last year.

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