RE: Duelling Ferrari F50s: Time For Coffee?
Wednesday 10th April 2013
There are those who consider a car like the Ferrari F50 a work of automotive art something to be sealed in an air conditioned chamber, treasured, preened over and eventually sold on to realise a huge profit at the appropriate time. And there are those too rich to give a f......
Duelling Ferrari F50s: Time For Coffee?
Anyone got a clutch for a Ferrari F50? Actually, best make that two...
Two of the latter with access to a pair of Ferrari F50s, a load of land and time on their hands have decided to demonstrate the fact. Yes, TaxTheRich are back.
Heroes of hooning or a pair of vandals abusing two treasured supercars any one of us would sell body parts just to have a quick go with? We'll let you decide but these guys, of course, have previous both with a Rolls-Royce and a Ferrari Enzo. And while we're not sure of the going rate for an F50 clutch (or, indeed, two of them) in terms of brightening up everyone's morning we'll consider it money well spent.
Discussion
MDubyaB said:
Those clutches will be fine; they'd obviously moistened the surface to get them going.
True. If not the clutches are the same part number as the Maserati 4200; but a quarter of the price. Maranello's didn't have any in stock so we were told to get a 4200 clutch and it fits right in.....W00DY said:
The whole thing seemed a bit lame.
The hooning wasn't particularly exciting and the tug of war was utterly dull.
Vapid, is, I believe, the appropriate adjective.The hooning wasn't particularly exciting and the tug of war was utterly dull.
They might garner a more enthusiastic response from those that appreciate the machinery if they were to do something interesting - like pitch up at an open hill climb event or a Goodwood sprint with some numbers and a crash hat...and do the maximum attack thing...
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