250 GT Berlinetta Lusso (Italy, 1962)

The 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso, which made its debut at the 1962 Paris Salon, was the final model in the 250 GT series in pure road car form and continued in production until the latter part of 1964, by which time 350 cars had been produced. It was the direct replacement for the 250 GT Coupé, as although there was a 'Lusso' street version of the 250 GT 'passo corto' Berlinetta, this didn't have an excess of interior or luggage space. The body styling from Pininfarina (production cars were built by Scaglietti in Modena) won immediate praise, and featured a front-end design with a wide and low egg crate grille similar to the 250 GT 'SWB' Berlinetta. It had a three-piece bumper arrangement, with a horizontal bar below the grille and a small vertical bumperette cradling the side/turn light on each front wing, with inbuilt circular driving lights between them and the grille. The front wing line curved over the wheel arches to fall gently through the door panel, with the rear wing line running from the door shut line, skirting the base of the rear quarter glass, before falling in a long curve into the Kamm tail panel, which had a shallow aerodynamic lip to its upper edge.