A Ferrari collector repainted his Porsche Carrera GT in the one color it should never wear
Porsche's V10 supercar left the factory in GT Silver. A dedicated Ferrari collector decided that was not for him
Milton Verret, a noted Ferrari collector, commissioned a full repaint of his 2005 Porsche Carrera GT from its original GT Silver into Rosso Fuoco, a genuine Ferrari factory red. The car heads to Mecum's Monterey auction on August 15, 2026, wearing a color it was never supposed to wear.
A Ferrari red, done properly
Karosserie, a restoration shop in Wayne, Pennsylvania, carried out the transformation over three months, stripping the Carrera GT down to its bare carbon fiber tub before applying Rosso Fuoco in modern triple-layer paint technology to concours quality. Rosso Fuoco is a genuine Ferrari factory color, not a close match mixed up to look the part, which is the detail that separates this from a simple respray.
The car underneath has not changed
Under the new paint sits the same 5.7-liter naturally aspirated V10 the Carrera GT left the factory with, good for 612 hp and 590 Nm of torque, sent through a six-speed manual and a twin-disc ceramic clutch. The only mechanical departure from stock is the rear spoiler, whose original hydraulic actuators have been upgraded to an electrical system. Everything else, including the black leather interior and its carbon fiber shift knob, remains original and shows minimal wear after 3,471 miles.
One of a very specific 644
This is chassis 728 of 1,270 Carrera GTs built, one of just 644 delivered new to the US. Porsche's V10-powered, manual-only halo car with its removable roof panel already sits in a different category from most modern supercars, and low-mileage examples like this one were desirable long before anyone touched the paint. This is not the only Carrera GT getting outside attention this year either, from Canepa's reimagined Sport Canepa build to Miller Motorcars' manual-swapped JC9 coachbuild, both proof that Porsche's V10 halo car still draws serious specialist money nearly two decades after production ended.
Where it is headed
The car crosses the block as Lot S74 at Mecum's Monterey sale. Low-mileage Carrera GTs in original colors typically trade between 2 million and 3.5 million dollars, and a rare Paint to Sample blue example sold for 6.7 million dollars earlier this year, though nothing has been said publicly about what this specific car is expected to fetch. Mecum's own listing language frames the appeal plainly: "The appetite for unique and custom-finished examples continues to grow among dedicated collectors."
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There is something genuinely funny about a Ferrari collector being the one to put his Porsche in Ferrari's own factory red, and Karosserie's work here is not a rattle-can stunt, it is a proper strip-to-the-tub respray done to concours standard. Wearing a rival's paint on purpose is a much better story than wearing it by accident.
The catch is the one every non-original repaint eventually runs into at auction. Carrera GT buyers pay a real premium for factory colors and unbroken history, and no amount of craftsmanship changes that Rosso Fuoco was never on Porsche's original color chart for this car. Whether Monterey rewards the story or punishes the originality gap is the actual test here, not the paint itself.
