The Beautiful 1967 Ferrari 330 GTS

The 330GTS was introduced to the public at the Paris Salon Motor Show in October 1966 as the successor to the already popular 275GTS. It featured a larger capacity Colombo V12 engine – measuring 3967cc – beneath its beautiful, sloping bonnet. The new engine developed a heady 300bhp, which was enough to blast the car and its lucky occupants to a breezy 150mph. Despite its performance potential, the GTS was renowned for hitherto unknown levels of refinement for a Ferrari. Indeed, renowned Ferrari author Godfrey Eaton once wrote that it was “probably the first Ferrari in which you could actually enjoy a radio”.

This particular car I pictured at Concours of Elegance 2023 is chassis no. 11015, a fully matching-numbers example. It is number 83 of a total production of 100; one pre-production model was produced, with 99 available for sale to the public.

Chassis 11015 was sold new in the US in 1967 by Chinetti Motors of Connecticut, with air-conditioning. chrome wire wheels, electric windows and Becker radio – all the upgrades available because it came later in the production cycle.

The car was owned by Morris Halperin for 22 years. He purchased the car in 1999 from Ned Tanen. He was the former president of Paramount Studios and Universal Studios, and part of the team responsible for such iconic films as American Graffiti, Smokey and the Bandit, The Deer Hunter, Top Gun, Fatal Attraction, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

While in the care of Ned Tanen the car carried the number plate ‘NRVOUS’ in the US. NRVOUS has been shown at numerous high-profile shows with multiple first places or platinum awards, including featured marque at Quail, A Motorsport Gathering, various Ferrari Club of America shows and the Greystone Mansion Concours d’Elegance.

NRVOUS has been meticulously maintained by all its prior owners, and was the subject of a nut-and-bolt restoration to concours standards in the early 1990s while under the ownership of Norbert Hofer of GT Classics. Junior Conway of the multiple award-winning Junior’s House of Color carried out the detailed restoration of the bodywork and paint. GT Classics rebuilt all of the mechanical components, while Little John Interior Concepts reupholstered the car using original materials, including leather from HVL, Ferrari Classiche’s official supplier.

After spending more than two decades in a climate controlled garage in southern California, the car was brought to the UK by its current owner in 2021.