•  Beautiful, rare and fast
• Eligible for the most exclusive historic tours and rallies
• Offered for the first time in a decade
• Well presented, ‘on the button’ and ready for enjoyment

Sold new to well-known privateer and dealer Franco Cornacchia in Milan and subsequently fielded in Italian national events, chassis '2422' was then acquired by Carroll Shelby Sports Cars in 1959 and exported to the USA. It continued its competition career Stateside, where by the early 1980s it was enjoying a peaceful retirement in an East Coast collection. Here it was tracked down, together with a sister 200Si, by Belgian collector and historic racer Edmond Pery who repatriated the car to Europe and, for the next 15-odd years, maintained and campaigned it on the continent. During Pery's tenure the enlarged 2.5 litre engine (a common upgrade on similar 2 litre cars raced in the USA in the late '50s) was swapped with that from his other 200Si, but otherwise little was altered except than to paint the car white with a blue stripe in honour of its American history.

In 2000, as part of a major acquisition spree, a new Italian collector bought '2422' from Pery via an Italian dealer and for the next decade it saw very little use. Apart from a rare appearance on the historic Mille Miglia in 2001, the car was otherwise hidden away and tended to by a team of full time mechanics until its availability in 2010.

Now liveried again in Rosso Corsa, Italian road registered and accompanied by its old Belgian FIA papers, this is a handsome example of a car much sought-after by enthusiasts, collectors and event organizers alike and one whose value is likely to grow, as demonstrated by the auction sale of a sister example in Monterey this summer.