Argentine footballer surprisingly clarified an issue that involved a very rare car and even Cristiano Ronaldo
On February 9, 2016 the Ferrari 355 Sport de Scaglietti bodywork with chassis nº0674 was sold in Paris for €32,100,000 at the Salon Retromobile auction by Artcurial Motorcars.
This rare 1957 Mille Miglia runner-up car and winner of the Cuban GP the following year reinforced its fame by becoming the second most expensive car ever sold at auction, but it still stayed. most famous when he also entered the world of football.
As soon as it was sold, the Ferrari 355 S Scaglietti was associated with (more) a dispute between Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi as protagonists in a duel for the purchase of rarity. In what was being advanced, the Argentine had won the race over the Portuguese for the purchase of the car.
Ronaldo was thus soon out of the game in the aftermath of the auction. But that’s not why the car buyer was the other element of this publicized dispute. It wasn’t Messi either. And it was with a smile on his face that the former football player for Barcelona denied the purchase at the time.
In a post on the networks socials published two days after the auction of the Ferrari 355 S Scaglietti, Messi showed himself with a small-scale copy of the character «Sparkle McQueen» from the Disney Pixar film series «Cars». And he wrote through smiles: “The new car they say I bought.”
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The Ferrari 355 S Scaglietti No.0674 with a 12-cylinder engine producing almost 400 horsepower belonging to the Pierre Bardinon collection was then sold in 2016 for 32.1 million euros. And that was what was found out, as you can recall in the video at the time.
