“The Best Ferrari Ever Built” Raced by Carroll Shelby, Fangio, Phil Hill and Other Legendary Drivers, To Cross The Block in Monterrey

Raced in-period by legendary drivers Carroll Shelby, Juan Manuel Fangio, Phil Hill, Eugenio Castellotti, Masten Gregory, Richie Ginther, Joakim Bonnier, Bruce Kessler, Jim Rathmann, and Chuck Daigh. 0598 CM is one of the most important Ferraris to compete in racing.

• One of the most significant purpose-built Ferrari “big block” sports-racing prototypes from the 1950s, this 1955 Ferrari 410 Sport Spider is one of just two factory-campaigned 410 Sports
• Raced in-period by legendary drivers of the 1950s
• Highly original and retaining the matching-numbers engine, chassis, and body, and fitted with the original fuel tank inscribed by Carroll Shelby
• RM Sotheby’s is ready for a record-breaking sale at Monterey 2022 with more announcements to come
  

BLENHEIM, ONTARIO, CANADA – June 22, 2022 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) – RM Sotheby’s is thrilled to offer the “best Ferrari ever built” and arguably one of the most significant Ferrari’s offered at auction, the 1955 Ferrari 410 Sport Spider by Scaglietti. RM Sotheby’s is on course to host a record-breaking auction in Monterey.

The American sports car racing scene of the 1950s was a time like no other, when fiercely independent, deep-pocketed men could acquire ex-factory racecars and campaign them with some of history’s most legendary drivers. Admirably pure in its essence, this was a golden era of racing that fielded some of the decade’s most beautifully sculpted and ferociously specified competition machines.

One of the most significant purpose-built Ferrari “big block” sports-racing prototypes from the 1950s, this 1955 Ferrari 410 Sport Spider by Scaglietti is one of just two factory-campaigned 410 Sports equipped with a 24-spark plug 4.9-liter V-12 and is one of a select few Ferrari models with coachwork both designed and built by Sergio Scaglietti.

0598 CM was the Scuderia Ferrari team car driven by Juan Manuel Fangio at the 1956 1000 KM Buenos Aires and later piloted by Carroll Shelby during his landmark 1956 and 1957 seasons when driving for the renowned Southern California-based team principal John Edgar. Shelby won more races as a driver in 0598 CM than any other car in his racing career, with eight wins and ten podium finishes. There seemed to be no race it could not win as Shelby told a Los Angeles Times reporter, “Nothing can touch this Ferrari if it runs” and decades later he added, “It was the best Ferrari I…