If you are a fan of Breaking Bad and at the same time a connoisseur of Ferrari models, surely you have an idea of what the following article is about. Swipe…
(SPOILER ALERT) If you haven’t seen Breaking Bad, I recommend you don’t read this article. Otherwise, below you will discover how one of the scenes most remembered by the audience of the Vince Gilligan series reveals how Walter White could have gotten the most expensive Ferrari of all time.
In episode 14 of the last season, the character played by Bryan Cranston tries to save Hank Schrader by offering Jack Welker and his gang all his fortune obtained from the manufacture of his methamphetamine. Until that moment, the final sum that Heisenberg had reached, but once the script brought it out, only one car was able to come back to mind.
Until May 2022, this car, in fact, registered the most expensive sale in automotive history. A 300 SL Gullwing was responsible for almost doubling the figure and putting Mercedes-Benz in first place. Beyond being moved to second place in the ranking, the Ferrari 250 GTO He is still master and lord in Maranello for the time being.
This 250 GTO I am pointing to is one of the 36 manufactured by the exclusive decision of Enzo Ferrari, since its launch in 1962. The longitudinal flag that stands out on its exterior has an explanation: it is a tribute to the Tour de France that this model conquered on two consecutive occasions: 1963 and 1964.
Its high price also has its reasons. His past, we said, is the root cause, but let’s get into the details. The copy, from his debut in the 24 hours of Le Mans 1963 where he finished in second place, would begin a career of competitions and circuits during which he would change owners.
Ferrari and a record sale
From the French Pierre Dumay to the Belgian Ecurie Francorchamps, who changed the flag that today is restored for one of his country. Then the person who would finally be the author of such a sale appeared. The German collector Christian Glaesel acquired it in 2003 and he sold it in 2018 for $80 million to the CEO of WheaterTech, the American David MacNeil. “80 million”. Yes, the exact amount that Walter White confesses to keeping underground.
The dominant color of this unit is silver and, as we have already seen, a French flag runs from end to end of its casing. On the sides it has two slots per side and the wedge-shaped front features an oval grille with the Prancing Horse, the endearing Ferrari logo.
As for the design of the model in general, a farewell curiosity. The silhouette reveals a shape that, at the time of its first appearance in the 1960s, was so astonishing to racetrack audiences that it earned it the nickname of “The monster”, another coincidence that brings this classic horse even closer to the coldness of the character. What do you think?