No matter how high you may rank in the Forbes 500, you absolutely don’t want to drive your Ferrari 250 GTO out on the street. See, with only 39 cars ever made, and some of them changing hands for more than US$40 million, the GTO has become more an investment than just a car.

Billionaire Christopher Cox of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, begged to differ as in 2012 he joined 19 other GTO owners for a drive to the Le Mans Classic race. Unfortunately he had an accident with a Hyundai, and although it was a minor one and no one got hurt, the precious Ferrari was damaged at the front.

The car, chassis number #3445 GT, was delivered to Ferrari’s Classiche department, where it was painstakingly restored and brought back to its initial condition, with its blue and yellow racing paint and the 112 number on its flanks and bonnet.

You can view the rare classic been driven in anger around Ferrari’s own Fiorano circuit for the first time since its crash in the video filmed by Marchettino right after the jump.

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