The hands
The people behind the car
The people whose work shaped the Ferrari P540 Superfast Aperta.
No free period portrait on record
Edward Walson
Commissioning client
Specified the film reference and received the completed P540 at the end of 2009.
P540 Superfast Aperta
Gold, open, singular
Edward Walson commissioned the second car in Ferrari's One-Off programme around the Fantuzzi-bodied Ferrari in Toby Dammit. It uses the front-V12 599 GTB Fiorano; value rests on the factory commission and file.
Market value · road
$2M–$4M
Typical $2.5M · 0 sales
$1.7M$4.2M
Market history builds with the record
- Built
- 1 (factory one-off)
- Donor
- 599 GTB (front-V12 platform)
- Engine
- 6.0L V12 (599 GTB architecture)
- Transmission
- 6-speed F1 (automated manual)
- Design time
- 14 months (Ferrari account)
Market & Price
The price and the proof
A terminal for one car: the model curve over the documented record, the benchmarks it is measured against, and the instruments that read it.
Records: 0 documented road sales on file · –; estimate band $2M–$4M · good road cars. recorded sale prices · mixed hammer and premium-inclusive basis.
HCN:P540SUPELive model
$2'500'0006.5% · 12M
Model curve · anchored to 0 documented sales · benchmarks rebased at window startmodel v1 · seed ferrari-p540-superfast-aperta · not investment advice
The readouts · model figures against the benchmarksSynthetic model · insufficient ledger
Compound annual growth
| Window | This car* | S&P 500 | Gold |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1Y | +6.5% | +18.8% | +21.9% |
| 5Y | +4.4% | +11.4% | +17.6% |
| 10Y | +4.3% | +13.3% | +11.8% |
*Modeled price CAGR · S&P is a price index, no dividends
Deepest drawdown · model window
This car*-6.3%Nov 2021 → Oct 2022 · recovered Dec 2023
S&P 500-20.3%Dec 2021 → Oct 2022 · recovered Dec 2023
Gold-18.9%Feb 2026 → Jul 2026 · not recovered
Forecast ladder · model quantiles
| Horizon | P10 | P50 | P90 |
|---|---|---|---|
| +6M | $2.3M | $2.6M | $2.8M |
| +12M | $2.4M | $2.6M | $2.9M |
| +24M | $2.4M | $2.8M | $3.2M |
Median path with the 10th and 90th percentile · not investment advice
Transaction ledger · documented salesMixed price basis · not estimates
0 of 0 recorded sales · shown in USD · recorded currency in each record
Price range · road · openConfidence · estimateNo documented public sale found. Estimate rests on the existing catalogue anchor, 599-based Ferrari factory one-off status and modern Special Projects comparables; transaction evidence is absent.
Floor
$2M
Typical
$2.5M
Ceiling
$4M
Estimate band for good road cars. 0 documented sales since 2019 plotted below.
$1.6M$2M$2.5M$4M$4.3M
Hover the spectrum to read a value, or a dot for the sale behind it.
Band, axis and sale positions shown in recorded USD.
The wider market · Ferrari at auction · median per year · modeled between anchors2,297 lots · 2003–2026 · exact yearly anchors · modeled line
Instrument calibration for this file is in progress — the terminal above reads the documented record directly.
Figures trace to documented public sales and published guides; extrapolated tiers are marked. The model curve is synthetic between documented sales. Nothing here is investment advice.
Overview
The second modern Ferrari One-Off commission reached its owner at the end of 2009.
American client Edward Walson asked Ferrari for an open V12 shaped by the gold car in Toby Dammit. Ferrari records a 14-month design process and delivery late in 2009.
Because it remains a single privately commissioned car, no normal production-series market can be constructed around it.
- Client
- Edward Walson
- Built
- 1
- Programme
- Ferrari One-Off
- Inspiration
- Toby Dammit · 1968
Reference
Technical specifications
Commission
- Base
- Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano
- Body
- Open two-seat barchetta
- Finish
- Goldchosen to echo the film car
- Development
- 14 monthsfactory account from design to delivery
Underlying mechanicals
- Engine
- 5'999 cc 65° V12599 GTB Fiorano basis; the factory one-off article does not publish a separate output
- Layout
- Front-mid engine · rear drive
- Gearbox
- 6-speed F1 automated manual
- Structure
- Reworked 599 aluminium chassisopen body required structural redesign
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