RE: The £17K Ferrari? I bought it...
Discussion
JdmRacer said:
Apache said:
really? and i don't think the 456 was ever intended to be a track weapon
My neighbour has a 700 bhp r33 and any time i get a spin in it sure does have alot of soul and makes you want to hold on for your life when your in it 
He reckons though its a bit on the slow side and is now gone into ducati race bikes
Kermit79 said:
I remember this car from my time at Graypaul. Was a car that had been used, and was properly run-in. I can attest to seeing the car in the workshop and having to park it up at night on a good few occasions. Always had a soft spot for these, this is not the more sought after Modificata model, but a genuine 160-180K car when new.
Just don't damage the front clam shell bonnet, seem to remember one of my collegues having a coming together with a ford at a junction, and a bonnet is/was approx 12k, lovely honeycomb construction! That was back in '02, so may have come down, but knowing Ferrari part stock levels they will be up there still, 'if' you can get hold of one.
As long as these are used and looked after they are no more scary than anything V12 from some of the competition. Windows mechs were a problem on the non-M cars not closing properly, along with the moving rear aero vallance spoiler. If memory serves me, something on damper settings used to play up (could be confusing this with another model, a while ago now).
Anyway, enjoy.
You don't happen to know if it belonged to Adrian hall by chance? Quite an eccentric feller with quite a collection, he raced too. He passed away a not long ago and he had one of these, this seems to fit the story?Just don't damage the front clam shell bonnet, seem to remember one of my collegues having a coming together with a ford at a junction, and a bonnet is/was approx 12k, lovely honeycomb construction! That was back in '02, so may have come down, but knowing Ferrari part stock levels they will be up there still, 'if' you can get hold of one.
As long as these are used and looked after they are no more scary than anything V12 from some of the competition. Windows mechs were a problem on the non-M cars not closing properly, along with the moving rear aero vallance spoiler. If memory serves me, something on damper settings used to play up (could be confusing this with another model, a while ago now).
Anyway, enjoy.
Edited by Kermit79 on Friday 25th May 13:41
Matt
JdmRacer said:
Funny thing is though that so called ricer has more soul than that ferrari and kick its arse any day on a race track and are we forgetting that ricer was the first car to go around the nurburging in under 8min
Really? More soul.....Must be them soulful robots that built it.
pSyCoSiS said:
Well done mr Goodlad!
Thats a total bargain - hope it runs well.
Out of interest, were these reallt £160k - £180k when new?! That's a lot of dosh, but suppose it was the equivalent of the 612, back then?
Also, how quick are these things?
car magazine quotes 156k for a new one 140k+ for an early oneThats a total bargain - hope it runs well.
Out of interest, were these reallt £160k - £180k when new?! That's a lot of dosh, but suppose it was the equivalent of the 612, back then?
Also, how quick are these things?
and wiki says Acceleration to 100 km/h (62 mph) was just 5.2 seconds, with a 13.4 second quarter-mile time. At the time of its development it was the most powerful road car ever developed by Ferrari (aside from the F40).
JdmRacer said:
k-ink said:
If it goes wrong just sell the ricer to cover it
Funny thing is though that so called ricer has more soul than that ferrari and kick its arse any day on a race track and are we forgetting that ricer was the first car to go around the nurburging in under 8min Just a shame these haven't followed suit in terms of value: http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3220429.htm
Perhaps it's the four seat Ferrari curse in effect. If so, then I should be saving for a sub-£20k 612 Scaglietti soon. This thread I fear will be inspirational, in either a very good, or very bad way.
Perhaps it's the four seat Ferrari curse in effect. If so, then I should be saving for a sub-£20k 612 Scaglietti soon. This thread I fear will be inspirational, in either a very good, or very bad way.
billzeebub said:
One life, live it. Well done. The essence of Ph, when all logical thought and financial reasoning shouts No, do it anyway
Totally agree, however when stuff does need replacing then it'll be less "One life, live it" and more like "One wife, Livid" ha ha.Thumbs up for the plunge though.
herebebeasties said:
If it goes spectacularly pear-shaped, then hey - it's only money. ;-)
Betcha Paul won't lie there on his death bed thinking, "I wish I hadn't bought that V12 Ferrari".
ETA: To all those of you thinking, "it's a lovely sunny day - I should go and buy a sports car" - GO GO GO.
...depends if it's the Ferrari that's put him there....Betcha Paul won't lie there on his death bed thinking, "I wish I hadn't bought that V12 Ferrari".
ETA: To all those of you thinking, "it's a lovely sunny day - I should go and buy a sports car" - GO GO GO.
Although this might seem like a heart over head decision, I'd say that this might actually be a very astute move.
If he doesn't have any trouble with it then he will be driving around in a V12 Ferrari for a bargain price.
If he does have issues, even if it costs several thousand pounds to fix, he is still quids in as this car is half the price of similiar cars.
If the problem is so expensive that it's not econmical to repair, he can always break it for parts and get his money back that way.
The only I could possibly see is that it might be rather difficult to move on if\when he gets bored of it.
If he doesn't have any trouble with it then he will be driving around in a V12 Ferrari for a bargain price.
If he does have issues, even if it costs several thousand pounds to fix, he is still quids in as this car is half the price of similiar cars.
If the problem is so expensive that it's not econmical to repair, he can always break it for parts and get his money back that way.
The only I could possibly see is that it might be rather difficult to move on if\when he gets bored of it.
Guvernator said:
If the problem is so expensive that it's not econmical to repair, he can always break it for parts and get his money back that way.
The biggest consistent source of ignorance around here is the belief that you can break a car and make money from bits.Reality isn't like that (as anyone who's tried it will testify) - unless you're well-woven into the motor trade/specialist scene, you'll find it hard, time consuming and expensive to even try to sell car bits - in many cases you'll probably end-up worse-off than if you'd just scrapped it - in almost no cases will you make the silly sums people list the parts as being 'worth'.
It's easy to understand why - would you buy car parts from a random person "on the Internet" (or in the classifieds) - and even if you were to overcome that trust issue, how far will you travel/is it practical to mail them and how much would YOU pay??
That applies 100-fold on Ferrari bits of course...
Would be nice if people stopped repeating this fallacy - along with the "the numberplate is worth £[silly number] alone" one which is equally wrong-headed - reality for most people is that a broken car is £100-300 in the local scrapyard - perhaps a BIT more 'spares or repairs' on eBay (and all the hassle that entails).
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