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williamp
11,320 posts
143 months
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Kermit79 said: 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.
why, are the bonnets a specifically excluded item on the insurance then??
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Zwolf
22,321 posts
76 months
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Kermit79 said: 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! I thought that was one of those urban folklore things. That and it's only the 456M that had the carbon-fibre bonnets (at around £4k), the 456 that preceded it made do with steel. Top punting though , will look forward to hearing of its progress. 
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JdmRacer
40 posts
20 months
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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 
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rm89
290 posts
47 months
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Yes yes, the Ferrari is all well and good but sir, that Audi is the dog's baws.
I know I'm strange.
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tommy vercetti
3,622 posts
33 months
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Awesome 
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ApexJimi
8,185 posts
113 months
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Balls of tungsten carbide, dangling from a nutter. I salut thee
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Kermit79
85 posts
17 months
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williamp said: Kermit79 said: 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.
why, are the bonnets a specifically excluded item on the insurance then?? ??, just merely recounting how expensive the bonnets were....
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Kermit79
85 posts
17 months
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Zwolf said: Kermit79 said: 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! I thought that was one of those urban folklore things. That and it's only the 456M that had the carbon-fibre bonnets (at around £4k), the 456 that preceded it made do with steel. Top punting though , will look forward to hearing of its progress. Bonnets were composite honeycomb. Also only stated the price of replacement back in '02. The 456 and M had aluminium panels attached to the steel chassis with Feran.
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mikEsprit
393 posts
56 months
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Owlwood said: Awesome. Fortune favours the brave. Exactly the quote I was considering posting, perhaps prefaced with "Let's hope..."
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artdealer
134 posts
83 months
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Underbidder on a £19k 456 in Le Mans Blue a couple of years ago on a trade auction site, then saw it up about £27k a week later. ho hum. You can tell I'm still a bit miffed.
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LaurasOtherHalf
6,468 posts
66 months
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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 You want to get that raw nerve seen to mate
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Numeric
308 posts
21 months
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It's the heart thing - because I have always seen cars as being profit (or loss) on a balance sheet I just struggle to buy with my heart - so everything is massively over researched and then inevitably they have issues and I panic and worry about losing money so out them.
Of course boats and bikes are bought with less thought than goes into deciding whether to have beer or wine with my dinner, are all money pits and are all forgiven their sins because I love them!
So I salute your love sir and enjoy every day, I wish I could lose my heart to a tasty Italian!!
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mig25_foxbat2003
1,544 posts
81 months
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herebebeasties said: Betcha Paul won't lie there on his death bed thinking, "I wish I hadn't bought that V12 Ferrari". What a spectacularly good maxim for life!
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John D.
9,590 posts
79 months
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ESOG
1,036 posts
28 months
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SirSamuelOfBuca said: good on him!
I live my life by one rule though
NEVER BUY A GREEN CAR LOL and here i thought I was the only one with such a rule. I have noticed that any manufacturer whose vehicle is on the second hand market and green, is always much lower in asking price than the other colors.
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Apache
38,278 posts
154 months
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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 really? and i don't think the 456 was ever intended to be a track weapon
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escortwagon
1,395 posts
22 months
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top job. Let us know how it goes.
the whitby road is lovely, plenty of suicidal bikers though
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crocodile tears
755 posts
16 months
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Brilliant, just need some follow ups now.. One in 6th months and one if/when you sell it or in a few years time
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JdmRacer
40 posts
20 months
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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
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wst
1,081 posts
31 months
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Kermit79 said: Talking of gear knobs, the early F1 355's were always fun to park, as we would often have 30-40 cars parked up in the workshop at night within inches of each other (250 california spyder included). Getting the first F1 transmission cars to allow 'creep' in 1st or reverse always made it more 'interesting'. Too few revs, nothing, 50rpm more and the cluch would bite..hard, and you didn't so much creep as lurch. Made any good driver look like they were going to need a few more lessons before passing their test. Then they updated the software and problem solved. I was fantasising about my Aventador that I'll someday have (about the same time as I become a powerfully built company director) and I was ohnestly wondering about how to drive non-slush-powered automatics like said Aventador, in parking spaces. Is it an art form, or can you just let your foot off the brake pedal and get slushbox-style creep with them?
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