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rat rod said:
That's not the Maranello's F40 is it, I was around Maranello's that day, the car had just been picked up, could tell something untoward was going on
but didn't here what had happened till the next day ,couldn't help feeling a little sorry for the guilty salesman in question ,nice lad but to much of a car
nut to resist the temptation He got sacked not for crashing the F40 but for leaving the showroom unattended ,suppose they couldn't say
he didn't have permission to take it out as there was the chance the insurance company may have wriggled ,
Another time i was in QV's and they were busy looking for body parts for a F40 but not through the normal Ferrari network as the owner
didn't want it known that he had crashed his car ,not a easy task i should imagine, apparently he had gone out for a Christmas morning blast
and run out of talent, must have put a damper on the Christmas fastivities.
I love that expression ''ran out of talent'' but didn't here what had happened till the next day ,couldn't help feeling a little sorry for the guilty salesman in question ,nice lad but to much of a car
nut to resist the temptation He got sacked not for crashing the F40 but for leaving the showroom unattended ,suppose they couldn't say
he didn't have permission to take it out as there was the chance the insurance company may have wriggled ,
Another time i was in QV's and they were busy looking for body parts for a F40 but not through the normal Ferrari network as the owner
didn't want it known that he had crashed his car ,not a easy task i should imagine, apparently he had gone out for a Christmas morning blast
and run out of talent, must have put a damper on the Christmas fastivities.
Edited by rat rod on Friday 28th October 22:42
cgt2 said:
I was offered an F40 for £90,000 in 1999...I was about £30k short and bought a 355 instead.
I say it everytime these threads come up but circa 2005 while I was uni I was trying to work out if I could get a mortgage and instead of buying a house buy the 170k F40 I kept looking at. Did seem cheap back then.
Fessia fancier said:
jwdh1 said:
I'd agree with that, something awry going on there, hit big numbers very quickly and wasn't what could be termed a "good" F40. Current one ticks all the boxes and is at 1.75m with 6 days to go so my 1.8m estimate is looking low!
The thing is that with any auction until it has actually hit the reserve the bids are not necessarily real. I say this not with specific reference to CC, but generally. rat rod said:
jwdh1 said:
rat rod said:
Zadkiel said:
It seems highly unusual that that amount would not have met reserve. Would be great if anyone knew the true story here.
See there is a F40 in RM sothebys auction on the 5th November,from a large collection,estimate is £1.4-£1.6 million which seems more realistic (can't believe i just said that )
but didn't here what had happened till the next day ,couldn't help feeling a little sorry for the guilty salesman in question ,nice lad but to much of a car
nut to resist the temptation He got sacked not for crashing the F40 but for leaving the showroom unattended ,suppose they couldn't say
he didn't have permission to take it out as there was the chance the insurance company may have wriggled ,
Another time i was in QV's and they were busy looking for body parts for a F40 but not through the normal Ferrari network as the owner
didn't want it known that he had crashed his car ,not a easy task i should imagine, apparently he had gone out for a Christmas morning blast
and run out of talent, must have put a damper on the Christmas fastivities.
Edited by rat rod on Friday 28th October 22:42
Sounds as if it was trying to be kept hush hush from the factory.
Back in about 2000, I was sent on a fork lift truck training course in South Devon. One of the neighbouring industrial units had the rear clamshell of an F50 hanging on the wall. I wandered over and asked about it: apparently the owner of the unit had an F50 and had crashed it. He had kept the rear clamshell as a souvenir. Coincidentally, not long after I visited a carbon fibre component manufacturer near Pescara, central Italy for some reason or other. Lo and behold, in Reception they had an unadorned F50 carbon fibre tub. Turns out this was the company who had made them all for Ferrari a few years earlier. People still think of this as cutting-edge technology on road cars, but these guys were churning them out nigh on 30 years ago.
Fessia fancier said:
jwdh1 said:
I'd agree with that, something awry going on there, hit big numbers very quickly and wasn't what could be termed a "good" F40. Current one ticks all the boxes and is at 1.75m with 6 days to go so my 1.8m estimate is looking low!
The thing is that with any auction until it has actually hit the reserve the bids are not necessarily real. I say this not with specific reference to CC, but generally.CC and other auction houses use ‘chandelier’ bidding which is the house bidding up to the reserve. It’s legal but not widely known outside of the trade and used to generate an impression that there is interest in an item being auctioned to encourage real bidders.
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