Here Are the 10 Best Ferraris at the 2026 Cavallino Classic

When it comes to automobiles, there nothing quite as soul-stirring as a classic 1950s Ferrari single-seater. And this 340 America from 1951, with its 4.1-liter V-12 and gorgeous bodywork by Touring, is a legend. Raced at Le Mans that same year, the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1953, and Daytona Speed Week in 1954, it’s one of just seven built. But after Daytona, the car was shuffled between owners on both sides of the Atlantic, and for seven decades was never driven in anger.

Current owner Igor Miroschnichenko, from Almaty, Kazakhstan, has plans to change that. His family bought the car at auction in 2023, and immediately shipped it to Britain’s DK Engineering for a comprehensive two-year restoration, returning the racer to its original 1951 Le Mans spec. Says Miroschnichenko; “We’re going to enter it in next year’s Mille Miglia retrospective and really drive it. Racing Ferraris are the best classic cars in the world.”

It seems that just months after the death of his famous wife Eva Perón, Argentine President Juan Domingo Perón went car shopping at the 1952 Paris Salon. He was so smitten with this oh-so-elegant Ferrari 212 Inter, with a one-off body by Carrozzeria Ghia, that he bought it and had it shipped back to Argentina.

“It was Perón’s prized possession and we have newspaper and magazine photos of him with the car,” says current owner, well-known Ferrari collector and concours judge Dennis Garrity. “He was ousted from power three years later and the car seized by the government,” adds Garrity, who acquired the car in 2018 and commissioned Ferrari expert David Carte to restore it to its original condition. The exhaustive five-year restoration has been rewarded with a multitude of concours awards, including Best of Show at the 2024 Cavallino Classic.

Andy Hilton heads one of the leading restoration firms, Paul Russell & Company, out of Essex, Mass., and back in 2023 was given the task of restoring this Ferrari 410 Superamerica Series 1 Coupe. The vehicle, with coachwork by Pinin Farina, was part of the Pennsylvania-based collection of Ferrari enthusiasts Al and Mary Barbour. “A restorer’s dream,” is how Hilton refers to the project.

“The car was one of the stars of the 1956 New York auto show, and had been photographed in complete detail from every angle, perhaps for a magazine story,” explains Hilton. “By luck, we managed to find the photos. It made the restoration a little less challenging. At some stage, the car had been repainted in cherry red, but when we removed the windscreen surround, we found a tiny strip of the original gold paint and were able to replicate it.” The quality of the restoration was no doubt one of the reasons that the V-12-powered Superamerica was voted this year’s Best in Show—Gran Turismo.

Peter Kalikow, a famed New York–based real-estate developer and philanthropist, blames this 1957 Ferrari 250 PF Cabriolet for igniting his passion for Ferraris. While his collection may currently total over 60 examples, it was back in 1957 that, as a car-obsessed 15-year-old, he dragged his father to that year’s New York car show at Madison Square Garden to see the 250 PF that he’d read about in magazines.

He eventually got around to buying a 250 PF in 1984. Built for a Dr. Giorgio Fassio, it was shipped to the U.S. in 1959 by Ferrari importer Chinetti Motors and used by Luigi “Coco” Chinetti for his honeymoon. Kalikow raves that “it’s such a great-driving car, a true grand tourer that’ll do 100 mph all day long.”

It’s been a whirlwind of car exhibitions for WeatherTech founder and C.E.O. David MacNeil and his spectacular 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO, with this year’s Cavallino Classic being the latest. “We’re coming to the end of the shows; David is really ready to go out and drive the heck out of it,” says MacNeil’s technical manager and GTO caregiver, Eric Wykle.

The WeatherTech boss hit the headlines back in 2018 when he spent a reported $70 million on this example, which won the 1964 Tour de France. After an exhaustive two-year restoration by Wisconsin-based Motion Products, the car is in astonishingly good condition, finished in its original silver with a French tricolor stripe. “It is such a great car to drive,” says Wykle. “It sounds absolutely fabulous and feels just so light and precise on the track.”

It all started with a photograph of the Italian movie star Sophia Loren perched on the back of her burgundy 1965 Ferrari 275 GTS convertible. At the time, Jean-Claude Saada was 10 years old and enamored. Fast forward to last summer, and Saada, who is chairman of a Dallas-based real-estate empire and owns a collection of some of the latest Ferraris, saw this 1966 275 GTS heading for auction. Remembering that photo of Ms. Loren, he bought the car.

“It was my first classic Ferrari and I love it. Every time I see it, I remember that photo,” he says. Painted a stunning shade of metallic blue called Grigio Azzurro, it now sports a “LASOFIA” license plate and is one of only 200 built. “I have a great collection of modern Ferraris, like a LaFerrari, an Aperta, and SF90,” notes Saada, “but now the 275 GTS is all I want to drive.”

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According to well-known Ferrari collector Bill Heinecke, who is the current owner of this spectacular 1967 Pininfarina-bodied 330 GTC Special, a special lever was installed under the driver-side dash to release the passenger-side door. “Pull up next to your girlfriend, pull the handle, and she could step right in,” he explains.

Just four of these magical 330 GTC Speciales were built, with this being the second. It was originally owned by renowned Houston heart surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey. Painted in Azzurro Aurora Savadin, a silvery shade of metallic blue, the car has a 3.0-liter V-12 under the hood and unique design features such as a curved-glass rear window and pop-up fog lights. “It’s really a delight to drive,” says Heinecke. “It has lots of power, beautifully light and precise steering, and handles so well.”

It’s hard to imagine that the Krakatoa volcano blowing its top could sound more deafening than this searing-yellow 1967 Ferrari 412P race car having its throttle blipped on the Cavallino field. “It definitely turns heads,” says Tyler Halko, who keeps the car running for Ohio-based Ferrari collector Harry Yeaggy.

Once part of Belgium’s renowned Écurie Francorchamps team, it raced in the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1967 and finished second in the 1967 Paris-Montlhéry 1000km—powered by a 4.0-liter V-12 making 414 hp. The following year, it was acquired by Dean Martin Jr., son of the famous Rat Pack crooner. The former was just 18 years old at the time, and had the car converted to an open-top spider. He became a regular sight cruising the car—no doubt loudly—along Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard. Before Yeaggy acquired the vehicle in 2017, it had been part of the collection owned by Lawrence Stroll, owner of Aston Martin’s Formula 1 team.

When you’ve had a love affair with Ferrari’s iconic F40 since high school, and you have an original in your collection, how do you go one step further to celebrate the original Ferrari supercar? One Colorado-based collector just asked the marque to build a one-off “homage.”

Enter the SC40. Completed just last October after three years of intensive design work by Ferrari Special Projects, this unique machine made its show debut at the Cavallino Classic. “It only arrived in the U.S. last week—I haven’t even driven it yet,” says the owner. Based on an 819-hp 296 GTB coupe, the car features unmistakable design cues from the F40, including that high-level fixed rear wing, Lexan louvers above the engine, new F40-style front fenders, and an interior dressed in red cloth. “We thought about painting it red, but I wanted a more modern look,” explains the owner, “so we created this Bianco SC40 paint that’s white with gold flakes.”

The world’s largest gathering of classic Ferraris was naturally the perfect venue to unveil the newest model. There, lined up next to the new Amalfi coupe, in front of the invited-guests-only Casa Ferrari VIP tent, was a bright-red 849 Testarossa making its official North American debut.

The specs are already widely known. This successor to the SF90 Stradale comes with a reworked 4.0-liter twin-turbo V-8 that combines with a trio of electric motors. As a result, the total output is 1,036 hp. That translates to the car being able to cover zero to 62 mph in 2.5 seconds, zero to 124 mph in 6.3 seconds, and reach a top speed of 205 mph. The new Testarossa will comprise a coupe and power-topped spider, along with a lighter, more track-focused Assetto Fiorano version. The jury was still out among Cavallino attendees we spoke to, with many disappointed at Ferrari’s revival of the legendary Testarossa name. But being one of the marque’s most-powerful production models to date, it will surely lure plenty of takers. For the record, we love it.