Ferrari never built a motorcycle, but if one bike deserves to wear a prancing horse it might be this one. In 1990 Enzo Ferrari's son Piero gave builder David Kay "the approval to place the Ferrari badge on your motorbike," and the fruit of his labor is this curious one-off which will be auctioned later this month.
The bike took 3,000 hours to assemble from scratch and wears several trick details including logo-emblazoned cylinder heads, a wild looking steering damper and shift linkage, and "double curvature reverse cone megaphones" that according to Kay make "...noise like a Messerschmitt chasing a Spitfire."
Unlike a certain computer-rendered Ferrari concept, Kay's creation is real and rideable. And according to auction house Bonhams' estimate, this motorcycle is expected to fetch in the neighborhood of $300,000 when it goes on the block on December 20th.
See more of this Ferrari-ish bike in our 1995 Ferrari 900cc Motorcycle Photo Gallery.
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Is this the Kay related to the other famous prancing Danny Kaye who had something to do with the story “the Emperor’s New Clothes”…?