{"id":12489,"date":"2009-05-18T15:08:43","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T22:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12489"},"modified":"2009-05-18T15:08:44","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T22:08:44","slug":"automobile-sports-car-1957-ferrari-250-testa-rossa-fetches-world-record-121-million-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12489","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Sports Car &#8211; 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa fetches world record $12.1 million at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The world record for a car sold at auction tumbled as predicted on the weekend when this 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa fetched 9,020,000 Euro (more than USD$12 million) at the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ferrari Leggenda e Passione\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in Maranello, Italy. Beautiful, rare (only 22 similar models were made) and with a rich and successful race history that began with a debut in the Buenos Aires 1000km in 1958, the 250 TR chassis no. 0714TR was snapped up by an anonymous phone bidder.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article_body\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>Ferrari no. 0714TR is considered one of the most competitive racing Ferraris ever built, having won 10 races in North and South America between 1958 and 1961. It boasts a 300 bhp, 2,953 cc single overhead cam degrees V-12 engine, six Weber 38 DCN carburettors and a four-speed manual gearbox.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The previous auction record was &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/1957-ferrari-250-testa-rossa-fetches-world-record-121-million-at-auction\/11727\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details &amp; Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world record for a car sold at auction tumbled as predicted on the weekend when this 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa fetched 9,020,000 Euro (more than USD$12 million) at the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ferrari Leggenda e Passione\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in Maranello, Italy. Beautiful, rare (only 22 similar models were made) and with a rich and successful race history that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-sports-car","category-vintage-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12491,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489\/revisions\/12491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}