Ferrari's Classiche program meets the USA in LA

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Although several months old now, the Ferrari Classiche program had one of its big coming out parties at the LA Auto Show last week. A beautiful 275 GTB sat at the back of the Ferrari booth, glowing as brightly as the modern 599 GTB grand touring cars out in front. One of the first Classiche cars, it was sporting a wholly new engine under that elegant bonnet. Similar to what Mercedes does at the Classic Car Center in Irvine, CA, Ferrari offers Classiche customers the chance to have their classic or vintage vehicle restored using factory blueprints, parts, molds and technicians to guarantee its authenticity.
Unlike the Mercedes program, however, Ferrari does its restoration and certification in Maranello. In fact, the 10,000 square foot Classiche facility is housed in an area of the factory that was previously a foundry. Certain service facilities around the globe will be added to the Classiche program, but where's the fun in that Might as well have it done where the cars were born, right Road cars that are at least 20 years old, or racecars of any year are shipped back to the factory, evaluated for originality and then accepted or rejected. It is expected that only a fraction of the potential customer cars will meet the stringent criteria for entry into the program.