Blue Chip for sure…$2,755,000 USD | Sold at Monterey, 2025
The tuning of cars has been going since cars became transportation, with the intention of placing your unique personality on your machine. In other words, make it something special, and few have done it better than Ruf and Singer, with Porsches, Alfaholics with Alfa Romeo, Eagle specializing in Jaguar. The world literally abounds with people and shops subjectively raising the looks and performance of what you’re driving.
I’ve always believed that all cars are fair game for tuning; if your name is on the title, do what you want and to hell with with others think, even if you don’t win a trophy just because you installed a newer sound system or ApplePlay.
Nearly the opposite has been the hands-off on tuning Ferraris. One of the few exceptions I’ve come across is this slightly modified Ferrari F40, tweaked to enhance performance, repainted to the owner’s taste, here a stunning blue.
The Ferrari F40 is rare air for a lot of reasons. First the performance. An absolute screamer in 1992, still fast all these years later, the F40 is a track car. but street legal. Secondly, it’s rare, with only 1,315 of them constructed. And lastly, unlike other cars of its era, it has only gotten better with age.
1992 Ferrari F40 “Blue Chip F40”: Completed in July 1992 and delivered new to Italy, chassis 94647 enjoyed life as a standard-spec F40 before its owner commissioned a carefully planned upgrade programme with Furlonger Specialist Cars in the United Kingdom. The goal was to enhance performance and drivability while preserving the model’s iconic character. Key features of the conversion include a rare Michelotto-developed F40 LM racing gearbox, revised turbo wastegates, a Tubi exhaust, KW fully adjustable suspension with front-axle lift, and 355 mm Brembo GT brakes paired with custom 18-inch centre-lock wheels that echo the original five-spoke design. Finished in Azzurro Hyperion, a deep, metallic blue color, originally produced for select early-2000s Ferraris but applied to this one-off F40 by Carrozzeria Zanasi. the car retains the unmistakable F40 silhouette while offering a distinctive, factory-quality presentation. Prior to this transformation, chassis 94647 was Ferrari Classiche Certified in 2013, with its Red Book confirming its originality.
Supplied today from a significant private collection, and accompanied by its original warranty and service book, original gearbox, Red Book, and service records, the “Blue Chip F40” recently traded hands on this thoughtfully enhanced example of Ferrari’s final model signed off by Enzo himself.
