$18M 1963 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spider (w/ startup)

A very rare 1963 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spider with coachwork by Scaglietti arriving at and leaving Lake Avenue Church during the Christ & Cars Autumn Rally to Pasadena. This car, chassis no. 4137 GT, was the last of 56 short-wheelbase (SWB) California Spiders built. Finished in red (Rosso Cina) with Pella Beige interior, this Ferrari Classiche-certified car retains its original chassis, body, 4-speed manual gearbox, and 3.0-liter Colombo V12 engine. It was purchased by its current owner David Lee, Chairman and CEO of Hing Wa Lee Jewelers and well-known Ferrari collector, for $18,150,000 at the Mecum Indy auction in May 2026.

Oh, the problems of the rich. You show up to church in an $18 million Ferrari and it's automatically assumed that you must park up front and center because your car is worth far more than all the other cars in the parking lot combined. Then you realize the trees above are shedding their foliage as they do at this time of the year, and that some of that foliage is making unwanted contact with your precious leather interior. You can put your top up as most convertible owners would in this scenario, but you simply can't resist showing off the car's gorgeous open-top profile. Or you can just send it farther away or to the underground parking structure where not a single nuisance tree is in sight... but who on earth would choose to do that? So your only option is to move your poor car back and forth and experiment with various odd angles until your friend who drives an SF90 XX sees your struggle and decides to move his own car so you can have half of his spot. What better place to practice compassion and humility than in the church's own parking lot?

On a side note, it's amazing how small the 250 looks next to that SF90. There's no doubt cars have gotten increasingly large over the years...

What would you have done to prevent the foliage from landing on your $18 million Ferrari? Leave a comment on YouTube and let me know!