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I can\u2019t wait to hear those incredible V12s cross the 18th fairway on Sunday morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Ferrari GTO will take center stage at the 17th annual Amelia Island Concours d\u2019Elegance, when the exclusively GTO class takes to the show field to honor the 50th anniversary of Ferrari\u2019s GT racing masterpiece. This will be a rare gathering of the legendary GT racers that made its international debut at the 1962 12 Hours of Sebring and proceeded to dominate international GT racing for three years.<\/p>\n<p>Due to its limited production numbers, sleek GT styling, and rich competition history, GTOs are highly prized and considered a work of art by collectors and automotive journalists around the world. The GTO sold originally for about $18,000 in the United States. On the rare occasion when one does change hands, it is usually in extremely private circumstances and the price tag is easily in the multi-million dollar range.<\/p>\n<p>The 2012 Amelia Island Concours d&#8217;Elegance will be held March 9-11 on the 10th and 18th fairways of The Golf Club of Amelia Island at Summer Beach adjacent to The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island. The honoree for 2012 will be rally and endurance <a title=\"Amelia Island Concours to Honor Vic Elford\" href=\"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/amelia-island-concours-2012-to-honor-vic-elford\/\">racing legend Vic Elford<\/a>. Since its inception in 1996 the Concours\u2019 Foundation has donated nearly $1.8 million to Community Hospice of Northeast Florida, Inc. and other charities on Florida\u2019s First Coast.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: Amelia Island Concours]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ferrari GTO will be featured at the 2012 Amelia Island Concours d\u2019Elegance, scheduled for March 9-11 on the 10th and 18th fairways of the Golf Club of Amelia Island at Summer Beach adjacent to the Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island. &#8220;We\u2019ve had Ferrari GTOs on the show field before, but what we have planned for 2012 should astonish even the most devoted Ferrari aficionado,&#8221; says Bill Warner, Amelia Island Concours d\u2019Elegance Founder and Chairman.&#8221;This remarkable sports car is the ultimate GT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":790651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,17565,56],"tags":[457,432,16912,60,61,2112,22332,832,4495],"class_list":["post-369500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-events","category-concours-events","category-ferrari","tag-amelia-island-concours","tag-events","tag-events-concours","tag-ferrari","tag-ferrari-250","tag-ferrari-250-gto","tag-ferrari-250-gt-race-cars","tag-ferrari-event","tag-ferrari-race-cars"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Amelia Island Concours 2012 to Honor Ferrari 250 GTO<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Ferrari GTO will be featured at the 2012 Amelia Island Concours d\u2019Elegance, scheduled for March 9-11 at the Ritz-Carlton on Amelia Island, Florida.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/amelia-island-concours-2012-to-honor-ferrari-gto\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Amelia Island Concours 2012 to Honor Ferrari 250 GTO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Ferrari GTO will be featured at the 2012 Amelia Island Concours d\u2019Elegance, scheduled for March 9-11 at the Ritz-Carlton on Amelia Island, Florida.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/amelia-island-concours-2012-to-honor-ferrari-gto\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Supercars.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Supercars.net\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-09-02T12:00:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-12-01T22:25:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/D3S8107.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"375\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sports Car Digest\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sports Car Digest\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/amelia-island-concours-2012-to-honor-ferrari-gto\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/amelia-island-concours-2012-to-honor-ferrari-gto\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sports Car Digest\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/188bd99a52d1e69543c54566c30e906b\"},\"headline\":\"Amelia Island Concours (2012) &#8211; 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