1959 Ferrari 250 PF Coupe - 50s luxury

By the late 1950s Enzo Ferrari needed a series production road car to both subsidize his racing habits and stabilize his company’s finances, and so directed Pinin Farina to design a clean, classic coupe to replace the limited production 250 GT Boano and Ellena. While road-going Ferraris had been offered in the early-mid 1950s, each was essentially built to suit each individual customer, keeping volumes low and costs high, rendering them minimally profitable. Pinin Farina (note that Pinin Farina was then two separate words) had completed its Grugliasco plant expansion early in 1958 and so was capable of larger-scale production. Introduced at the 1958 Milan Auto Show, the Series I 250 PF Coupe was Ferrari's first forte in mass production and featured a race-proven yet refined engine, trans, brakes and suspension; subtle and elegant styling with a user-friendly cockpit and ample luggage space for country or continent wide high-speed cruising. The years have proved extraordinarily kind to the 250 GT Coupe, and its pure, exquisite lines are widely regarded as both elegant and timeless.

[@daleshisler2955]

Great lesson on the PF 250 coupe. Enjoyed the video.

[@kev-the-windsurfer.]

I like how simple these cars are!! Nice presentation as always!!

[@jimmy7652]

Greetings Mike, a belated one from Yokohama, Japan. Great to see you there.

[@CliffordBustria]

Car Girl 👧 MASTER OF CLASSICS

[@jamesbambury]

The only good part about coming back from vacation is catching up on videos like this, when describing the change in production processes at this time I think calling it a move to mass production is a misnomer (as you pointed out). I think it best characterized as “going from moving the people around the cars, to moving the cars around the people”.

[@gregkarkowsky967]

I would prefer this one over the others. Nice that it is intact.

[@AleksandrHalas]

As always excellent content from Ferraris Queen

[@erikgreenip3191]

Wow. Not what one thinks of when the Ferrari name is brought up. I like it.

[@MarcSob22]

Gorgeous machine!!

[@cobra1010]

A fantastic presentation of a wonderful car! The Ferrari 250 Pininfarina Coupe is one of the most beautiful and elegant cars ever made. The one that you are driving here is just mind blowing! It is a shame that a lot of these were dismantled and converted into other versions! Thank you for showing these wonderful Ferraris to us!

[@Schlipperschlopper]

Unfortunately, this will soon be illegal, the Green peoples party probably have to ban the showing and glorification of combustion engines and particulate matter carriers such as vehicles with rubber tires in all media across the EU, as is the case with cigarettes!!!

[@GM-fh5jp]

Good video, well done, Miss. ps...for the 1 or 2 Ferrari lovers on the planet who don't know..."PF" stands for Mr.Pinin Farina. What a brilliant body of work this man and his company have produced over the years.

[@tedyshor]

Good to know...i tought it was PortoFino 👍

[@IglesiasRaul7895]

Excellent video as always. Great content and very informative.

[@ArthurStone]

Thanks; much appreciated. I see the influence of Oldsmobile and Cadillac in the design; maybe some Austin Healey too.

[@x3mperformace]

Hi. Love the videos, and the stories. Are there anway, we could get a video about the Ferrari 400 or 412? And keep up the great work. 🙂

[@michaelfraser5723]

Coleen gets younger every month; by the end of the year, she'll be a teen again

[@michaelfraser5723]

beautiful, like Ferraris, actually

[@jamesdellaneve9005]

Hard to fault someone turning one of these into a Testarossa.

[@pile333]

Classy car.

[@soyounoat]

I love the original design of the 250 PF. Very sublime Italian sexy, lovely PF lines. I would not change anything other than the oil, spark plugs, brake pads, etc.

[@Andoniscars]

very stylish

[@paulkrapp]

Why was the Thunderbird in this video?

[@daveglover6115]

I would definitely prefer this original to a GTO/SWB clone!

[@benvan-ness1030]

I have also another question about Ferrari back in the fifties and sixties was Ferrari a worldwide name and automotive or was it only really known in Italy and maybe certain parts of Europe

[@yaroslavbozhdynsky]

Enjoy my article for Wikipedia on Ferrari 250 GT Coupé.

[@Jonathan-mt9up]

Stylistically speaking, this Ferrari appears to be influenced by the '57 Ford Thunderbird as much as 60's Ferraris were influenced by the Jaguar XK-E.

[@niacal4nia]

How come God drives a Porsche 992 Turbo S😂

[@NLBassist]

It's Testarossa, not Testarosa.

[@TheJagjr4450]

Cmon now... at 3:04 a photo of the THUNDERBIRD assembly line? REV's should have photos of the 59 250 PF on the line, I know there are photos of the 250 California Spyder on the assembly line.

[@ulrichskaarsgard7848]

3:30 😊

[@christophercarbonell963]

I saw that too. wondered if i was alone on that

[@TheJagjr4450]

@@christophercarbonell963 I happen to have a 57 Bird in my shop right now... that's why I recognized it.

[@polyaplus]

Cool dad

[@foxtrot801]

Meu sogro

[@robertoorsi5771]

I din't think that an od tecnology Ferrari is good for riding nowdays. Buy this car and put it in a dining of a villa as it is only an art masterpiece of the fifties like an anti inflaction painting.