Known by car historians as the “Pininfarina Spider unique series” to distinguish it from more common later versions, this is a 1957 250 Spyder. This car is chassis no. 0759, and is an elegant convertible that perfectly expresses the spirit of the late 1950s Dolce vita lifestyle. Its signature characteristic, aside from the pop-up handles and rear fins, was a hardtop specially designed by Pininfarina to match the traditional leather top. A unique model with which American buyers fell head over heels in love, There is some uncertainty whether this car was actually used by Marilyn Monroe or not, despite what the display in the museum would have you believe. What is known is that it is a very early example, being only the eighth of some 40 units built overall. Its chassis frame was delivered to the PininFarina plant on September 9, 1957, and upon its completion with this strikingly handsome body it was promptly (and so justifiably) exhibited at the 39th Salone dell’Automobile in Turin’s Valentino Park exhibition hall, from October 30-November 10 that year. In January, 1958, this Cabriolet was shipped to the Venezuelan Ferrari importer, Carlo Kauffman, in the central-American state’s capital city of Caracas. It was registered there on Venezuelan plates ‘NC 6159′. The car was pictured in the factory’s official 1959 Ferrari Yearbook, whose compilers every year made much of the burgeoning marque’s global appeal. Study the car’s gorgeously preserved tan leather and honeyed carpeting today and one can imagine just how cool and stylish it must have seemed to Carlos Kauffman and his eager clienti as they sampled ’0759 GT’ on the broad sun-soaked boulevards of Venezuela’s then booming, already oil-rich, capital city. The sales document of the time cites the car’s colour at that time as having been ‘’ – green – and the sale price as 80,000 Venezuelan Bolivares. Senor Gustavo Guttierez retained the car in Venezuela until 1986, when it was offered for sale, by that time being described as painted red. In 1991, it was acquired by Fabrizio Violati and inducted into the Collezione Maranello Rosso.