A coachbuilt Ferrari 599 GTB reshaped into a shooting brake is heading to auction barely three months after it was shown to the public. Broad Arrow expects the one-off Daytona Shooting Brake Hommage to fetch between $524,000 and $757,000 at the Zoute Concours Auction on October 9.
The car exists because of a rabbit hole of automotive tributes that stretches back more than half a century.
In 1972, Bob Gittleman hired Luigi “Coco” Chinetti Jr. to build him a unique car. Chinetti, whose father established Ferrari’s North American franchise, partnered with designer Gene Garfinkle to create a road-going homage to the Ferrari 250 GT SWB Breadvan. They started with a 365 GTB/4 Daytona coupe, gave it shooting brake bodywork with an all-glass tailgate, and had the aluminum panels fabricated by British firm Panther Westwinds.
The finished car cost four times the price of a stock Daytona.
That 1972 car became the inspiration for Dutch designer Niels van Roij’s latest project. Van Roij has made shooting brakes a calling card, having already reworked a Rolls-Royce Wraith, a Tesla Model S, and a Ferrari 550 Maranello in the same long-roof style.
The Hommage starts life as a 2009 Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano. Look at the lower body, windshield, and side glass and you can still see the donor car. But the front and rear tell a different story, faithfully recreating the original Daytona’s visored headlights and flat Kamm tail with its expansive glass.
The conversion reportedly consumed 15,000 hours of labor, blending CAD modeling and 3D printing with old-school hand fabrication. Under the hood, the 5.9-liter V12 sits untouched, still producing 611 horsepower and 448 pound-feet of torque.
So here is a tribute to a tribute to a race car, built on a platform that is itself two generations removed from the original Daytona. That kind of layered nostalgia either resonates with you or it doesn’t.
What catches the eye is the timeline. Van Roij’s client reportedly waited nearly two years for the build to be completed. The car was unveiled in July, and by October, it’s crossing an auction block.
That’s an extraordinarily short ownership window for a bespoke commission.
The auction estimate places the car roughly in line with clean examples of the 599 GTO, Ferrari’s own track-focused variant. Whether the coachbuilding labor and one-of-one status command that kind of premium over a standard 599 GTB, which trades for roughly $200,000 to $250,000 these days, will be answered in Belgium next week.
Van Roij’s body of work suggests he understands proportion and restraint. The 550 Maranello Breadvan he built previously earned genuine respect from the design community. This latest car carries the same DNA, though converting a 599’s somewhat bulkier greenhouse into something that evokes a 1970s Daytona is a taller order.
Ferrari’s own coachbuilding program has been churning out extravagant one-offs for its wealthiest clients, cars like the SP3 Daytona and the KC23. Those carry the Prancing Horse’s official blessing. Van Roij’s work does not, and at Zoute, bidders will decide exactly how much that distinction matters.
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