Ferrari Testarossa Spider (Agnelli)

Why it matters

Ferrari never offered the Testarossa as a production Spider, making chassis 62897 a singular factory-built exception rather than one of the independent conversions produced later. Ferrari and Pininfarina created the car to mark Gianni Agnelli's twentieth anniversary at the helm of Fiat; construction began in February 1986 and the finished Spider was delivered to him that June. Its silver body was accented by a fine blue line around the cockpit and blue lower sills, complemented by blue leather upholstery and a folding blue canvas roof. Removing the fixed roof required unique bodywork and a specially formed rear deck while preserving the Testarossa's defining side strakes, immense rear width and 4,943 cc four-valve flat-12. The five-speed manual transmission was paired with a button-operated clutch system devised to help Agnelli, whose left leg had been injured in a 1952 road accident. He retained the car until 1991, when it passed to a close friend in France; after nearly twenty-five years with its second owner, it appeared at the 2016 Artcurial Rétromobile sale with approximately 23,000 km and later at the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este. Its identity rests on its documented Ferrari-Pininfarina origin, restrained Agnelli specification and one-of-one status—not merely on being an open Testarossa.