Ferrari 550 1998, good buy (if you have the bottle) or not?

Ferrari 550 1998, good buy (if you have the bottle) or not?

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dvb247

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270 posts

197 months

Thursday 26th March 2015
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It's still for sale then!! I first saw this car back in Sept/Oct 2014, I spoke to the seller also and didn't get a could feeling about it, his add has gone through a few generations now, he has clearly dropped all the Novitec blah blah stuff now.
At some point it will be worth a punt, right colour combo and manual, my issue is the same as everyone else, its been very poorly repaired, the rear quarter that is not in this new add is in really bad shape, the passenger side lights don't sit right, front and rear bumpers are copies, the wings are copies, needs a full respray, one of the pillars looks damaged, possibly why it's CAT C, the engine needs full service with all fluids, all dash light faults seeing to, will need full corner weighing and alignment, poss new tires as been stud for ages.
Really depressing as after all that I did make him a pretty good offer IMHO but he's holding out for £30k plus at least.

The silver Ferrari 612 CAT D engine fire seems much more straight forward and is a nice spec v12 car!!

Bluebottle911

811 posts

194 months

Sunday 29th March 2015
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May be worth restoring on 20-30 years' time, when it's old enough to be the sort of car you re-build from a wreck and nobody minds it's past history, but for now and for the foreseeable future it's a Cat C write-off, not worth the cost of sorting it out properly, potentially dangerous if you don't. Sad to say it, but this is a parts car.

Paracetamol

4,225 posts

243 months

Wednesday 1st April 2015
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OMG that can only be a parts car or someone needs to reshell it...