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One family ownership until 2001 and less than 20,500km from new 1967 FERRARI 365 SPYDER CALIFORNIA COACHWORK BY PININFARINA Chassis No.9889 Engine No. 9889 Light metallic blue with black leather interior Engine: V12 (Type 217B), single overhead camshaft per bank, triple Weber carburetors, 4,390cc, 320bhp at 6,600rpm; Gearbox: five speed manual; Suspension: front, independent with double wishbones, coil springs, rear, rigid rear axle with semi-elliptic leaf springs; Brakes: four wheel disc. Left hand drive. Introduced at the Geneva Motor Show in the spring of 1966, the 365 California was billed as a successor to the 500 Superfast. Its 4.4 litre engine was a development of the long block Colombo V12 engine that was used in the 330 series and with an 8.8:1 compression ratio it produced some 320 horsepower at 6,600rpm. A similar engine had first been developed for use in the privateer 365P prototype sports racing cars of the mid sixties. The body was designed and built by Pininfarina and borrowed heavily from other PF designs, the front from the 500 Superfast and 330GTC, the body sides and air intake around the door handles were like the 246 Dino. The rear, however, was unique to the 365. Unlike many of its contemporaries, this luxury convertible Ferrari came equipped as standard with air conditioning and power steering as well as Borrani wire wheels. The 365 Spyder California is so rare that Ferrari never actually printed a separate brochure for it. The 14 examples built all went to VIP clients. Its design was authored by Tom Tjaarda, who was then in the employ of Pininfarina. Tjaarda was a young American revered by some West Coast Ferrari chroniclers as a designer of significance. 9889 was sold to Mrs. Carla Sacchi Toffolini for her husband Mr. Sacchi. It was finished in azzuro metallizato (blue metallic) with nero (black) leather interior and blue carpets, with lap belts. While it was registered with a Milan plate MI E02428 in the family's main residence in Milan where Mr. Sacchi was an industrialist, it was kept at the family's seaside residence in Santa Margherita Ligure a village right next to one of the most famous little ports in Europe, Portofino. There 9889 was enjoyed in grand style, taking the couple on leisurely drives to restaurants along the coast and enjoyed in spirited drives by Mr. Sacchi. The beauty of the surrounding coast, its hilly roads, stunning architecture, romantic villages and aristocratic villas combined with the elegance and regal performance of the 365 California conjure heady images of real life dolce vita and lend this example a wonderful aura and provenance. It was also, most unusually for a Ferrari, driven by the family chauffeur, Salvatore Paletta, when taking Mr. or Mrs. Sacchi to their destinations. It was kept scrupulously original bar period twin Heuer stopwatches that were fitted on the center console. Mr. Sacchi passed away in 1980 and his widow Carla Sacchi Toffolini became the owner of 9889. The last public appearance of the beautiful cabriolet was at the 1983 Ferrari Days in Modena where Salvatore Paletta brought the car for Ferraristi to enjoy. A color photograph taken that day is published on page 165 of The Complete Ferrari by Godfrey Eaton. After that it was put away and only taken out for cleaning and buffing, like the family silverware. While researching the history of this car, Ferrari historian Marc Sonnery, realized that he had visited the two beautiful small towns of Portofino and Santa Margherita Ligure immediately after the 250GTO 30th anniversary in 1992 at the Ferrari factory in Maranello. Little did he know that hidden behind the high walls of one of the patrician residences there lay a treasure twice as rare as a GTO! The fact is, little did anyone know! 9889 lived in complete anonymity with the Sacchi family for decades, lost to the world. Then, in late 1999 in a bar in New York City a chance meeting occurred between a relative of the Sacchi family, a young ma