The 16-year legal battle over this $16.5m ferrari

Wanted: one caring owner for a cherry-red 1954 Ferrari racer; current proprietorship heavily contested.

The 16-year legal battle over this $16.5m ferrari

When an eccentric US Army engineer who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II bought a burned-out Ferrari chassis for $2,500 in 1958, he had no idea that it would become the most fought-over car on the planet.

“It’s a car worth fighting for... It’s an important car” Now, after 16 years of lawsuits and ownership claims from Paraguay to Switzerland, the fate of the roadster, which Victoria’s Secret founder Les Wexner thought he bought last year for €15m is finally coasting toward resolution in a London court.

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