1973 Ferrari Once Owned By Bob Seger Up For Sale

How would you like to buy a 1973 Ferrari once owned by Bob Seger? You can do it - it’s up for grabs right now on the Bring A Trailer website (click here for the link)

Here’s what we know about the 1973 Ferrari Dino 246 GTS and the connection to Bob Seger. We know he owned it until 1988, where it was sold to someone in Palm Beach, Florida. Part of the description from BAT (Bring A Trailer): 

This 1973 Ferrari Dino 246 GTS is one of approximately 2,900 E-series examples produced through July 1974 and left the factory in September 1973 finished in Verde Scuro over beige Connolly leather. Chassis 06000 was picked up new in Italy by the first owner before being brought to the US and was later acquired by the Detroit-born musician Bob Seger. The car is believed to have changed hands again in the 1980s and was subsequently repainted red before being sold to another owner in the late 1990s, with whom the car is said to have remained for the next two decades. Following a period of storage, the car was purchased as a project by an English collector and brought to the UK.

I had the chance to talk with Bob about his first car and cruising the drive-ins in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Bob: “Oh yeah, I grew up in Ann Arbor during the drive-in scene. It was like something out of American Graffiti, just watching cars come through. Everett’s Drive-In was the big spot in Ann Arbor. Seeing a beautiful ’61 Ford convertible with a 390 in it—just great stuff.”

Jim: “When did you have time to go to a drive-in? Didn’t you have, like, three jobs when you were 16?”

Bob: “Yes, I did. I was on a work co-op program because it was just my mother, my brother was in the service, and my dad was gone. I sold clothes at Wilds, which is gone now. I worked at Brown Jug, delivering pizzas on weekends, and I also played at fraternity parties.”

Jim: “So you had three jobs, and your first car was a ’54 Ford, right?”

Bob: “Yeah, but it only lasted about a month. I really consider my first car to be a ’55 Ford, which lasted about nine months.”

Jim: “What happened to these cars?”

Bob: “I wasn’t very wealthy, so I was buying $100 cars. The first was a ’54 Ford flathead, the second was a ’54 Chevy, which also ran for about a month. Then I got a ’55 Ford, just a little sedan with posts. It wasn’t the cool one with all the windows down at once, but it was a V8 and automatic, which I wasn’t crazy about, but it was a great car.”