This particular Ferrari 330 GT 2+2 Coupé by Pininfarina is a left-hand drive European 4-headlight variant featuring 4-speed transmission with overdrive, power windows, factory seat belts and with provision for a radio to be fitted.
The car then found its fourth owner in the shape of Fabrizio Violati's Bellancauto SpA company, domiciled at the Villa della Conciliazione, Rome, on April 15, 1977. The car subsequently became yet another of the exhibits within his Collezione Maranello Rosso exhibitions halls in the Republic of San Marino.
Introduced in January 1964, the 330 GT 2+2 was based on the preceding 250 GTE model, Ferrari's first quantity-production fourseater road car. Ferrari's production partner, Pininfarina, had again been entrusted with the latest model's styling.
Improvements to the model's disc brake system saw separate hydraulic circuits provided for the front and rear brake calipers. The 330's Colombo-type, 60-degree, two-cam, V12 engine had first appeared in the 330 America (effectively a re-engined 250 GTE 2+2) introduced in 1963. Displacing 3,967cc, the all-alloy unit was good for 300-plus horsepower at 6,600rpm, an output sufficient to propel the 330 GT to a maximum velocity of 152mph (245km/h) making it, when introduced, the fastest road-going Ferrari.