Discussion
12TS said:
Thanks, unfortunately not - that's for the rear box. I was hoping to find something like this (for a Jalpa) - https://www.lamborghini-talk.com/attachments/jalpa...
Jonny TVR said:
That's good to here ,i had a feeling that although you had a clear out when moving the Cobra would have been a keeper after going to the trouble of having it built , Agree looks so much better painted in the correct shade of blue even nicer with no stripes
and love the plate,
Just out of interest there was a MK111 427 S/C continuation sold at RM's Sothebey's for £232,813 including commission on the 12th
this week,lively bidding all the way up.
Jonny TVR said:
This may or may not be of some interest to you being a Cobra owner but will try not to bore you to much ,Back in the day i would buy my Ferrari's from Maranello's when owned privately by Colonel Ronnie Hoare who
more or less started Maranello's as a hobby and somewhere to maintain his Ferrari race cars having his main income from his Ford
dealership F English in Bournemouth along with a small showroom close to the main Bournemouth shopping centre and parks
for selling a few more exotic cars , my dad bought a Aston Martin DB 4 from them for the princely sum of £1,495 so going back a while
Maranello's was very much run as a family business with 9 to 5 hours apart from every third Saterday a salesman would have to work from 9 - 12 ,
On the death of the Colonel the business was sold to Inchcape and wasn't long before the orginal staff were replaced by a different generation
of salesman , My friend who was one of the longest standing salesman there was told he had to work a alternate 7 day week which he
replied we sell Ferrari's not Fords and refused to work on any Sunday as they were now working a full Saterday instead of the previous
9 - 12 hours and resigned ,not too long after he was followed by the rest of the original staff along with the sales manager Mark Konig
who drove for Ferrari at Le Mans and Sebring and also manufactured his own racing car named the Nomad BRM ,
My friend after doing a spell with Aston and Bristol Cars managed to get offered the position of sales manager
with Brian Angliss selling the MK 1V Autocraft Cobra ,My friend invited me to the factory which was at Brooklands ,
On my arrival i was greeted with rows and rows of completed Cobra's ,this was the early days when made with alloy bodies and fitted with the 302 Ford
V8 's before they resorted later to carbonfibre bodywork with the Lotus V8 .
Can't exactly remember the exact dates but i think there must have been some sort of recession going on at the time and although
i was told the cars were sold and awaiting collection with some being exported he said it with a wink because that what he had been told to say
to the customers ,If they showed some serious interest they would get a call from my friend to say they had a cancelled order and could take delivery
immediately and avoid the imaginary waiting list ,
My friend now in his late 70's has his own business selling Bristol cars in the west country and we still stay in touch .
Another one of my useless bits of information ,
:Edited by ratrod 2 on Wednesday 19th June 00:51
ratrod 2 said:
This may or may not be of some interest to you being a Cobra owner but will try not to bore you to much ,
Back in the day i would buy my Ferrari's from Maranello's when owned privately by Colonel Ronnie Hoare who
more or less started Maranello's as a hobby and somewhere to maintain his Ferrari race cars having his main income from his Ford
dealership F English in Bournemouth along with a small showroom close to the main Bournemouth shopping centre and parks
for selling a few more exotic cars , my dad bought a Aston Martin DB 4 from them for the princely sum of £1,495 so going back a while
Maranello's was very much run as a family business with 9 to 5 hours apart from every third Saterday a salesman would have to work from 9 - 12 ,
On the death of the Colonel the business was sold to Inchcape and wasn't long before the orginal staff were replaced by a different generation
of salesman , My friend who was one of the longest standing salesman there was told he had to work a alternate 7 day week which he
replied we sell Ferrari's not Fords and refused to work on any Sunday as they were now working a full Saterday instead of the previous
9 - 12 hours and resigned ,not too long after he was followed by the rest of the original staff along with the sales manager Mark Konig
who drove for Ferrari at Le Mans and Sebring and also manufactured his own racing car named the Nomad BRM ,
My friend after doing a spell with Aston and Bristol Cars managed to get offered the position of sales manager
with Brian Angliss selling the MK 1V Autocraft Cobra ,My friend invited me to the factory which was at Brooklands ,
On my arrival i was greeted with rows and rows of completed Cobra's ,this was the early days when made with alloy bodies and fitted with the 302 Ford
V8 's before they resorted later to carbonfibre bodywork with the Lotus V8 .
Can't exactly remember the exact dates but i think there must have been some sort of recession going on at the time and although
i was told the cars were sold and awaiting collection with some being exported he said it with a wink because that what he had been told to say
to the customers ,If they showed some serious interest they would get a call from my friend to say they had a cancelled order and could take delivery
immediately and avoid the imaginary waiting list ,
My friend now in his late 70's has his own business selling Bristol cars in the west country and we still stay in touch .
Another one of my useless bits of information ,:
I was quite young then but I remember those Maranello days with Shaun Bealey just before the Mark Konig era. Early/Mid 80s. A whole different feel, the showroom today is unrecognisable.Back in the day i would buy my Ferrari's from Maranello's when owned privately by Colonel Ronnie Hoare who
more or less started Maranello's as a hobby and somewhere to maintain his Ferrari race cars having his main income from his Ford
dealership F English in Bournemouth along with a small showroom close to the main Bournemouth shopping centre and parks
for selling a few more exotic cars , my dad bought a Aston Martin DB 4 from them for the princely sum of £1,495 so going back a while
Maranello's was very much run as a family business with 9 to 5 hours apart from every third Saterday a salesman would have to work from 9 - 12 ,
On the death of the Colonel the business was sold to Inchcape and wasn't long before the orginal staff were replaced by a different generation
of salesman , My friend who was one of the longest standing salesman there was told he had to work a alternate 7 day week which he
replied we sell Ferrari's not Fords and refused to work on any Sunday as they were now working a full Saterday instead of the previous
9 - 12 hours and resigned ,not too long after he was followed by the rest of the original staff along with the sales manager Mark Konig
who drove for Ferrari at Le Mans and Sebring and also manufactured his own racing car named the Nomad BRM ,
My friend after doing a spell with Aston and Bristol Cars managed to get offered the position of sales manager
with Brian Angliss selling the MK 1V Autocraft Cobra ,My friend invited me to the factory which was at Brooklands ,
On my arrival i was greeted with rows and rows of completed Cobra's ,this was the early days when made with alloy bodies and fitted with the 302 Ford
V8 's before they resorted later to carbonfibre bodywork with the Lotus V8 .
Can't exactly remember the exact dates but i think there must have been some sort of recession going on at the time and although
i was told the cars were sold and awaiting collection with some being exported he said it with a wink because that what he had been told to say
to the customers ,If they showed some serious interest they would get a call from my friend to say they had a cancelled order and could take delivery
immediately and avoid the imaginary waiting list ,
My friend now in his late 70's has his own business selling Bristol cars in the west country and we still stay in touch .
Another one of my useless bits of information ,
:Edited by ratrod 2 on Wednesday 19th June 00:51
cgt2 said:
I was quite young then but I remember those Maranello days with Shaun Bealey just before the Mark Konig era. Early/Mid 80s. A whole different feel, the showroom today is unrecognisable.
As you say totally unrecognisable , Having bought my last Ferrari from them just over 7 years ago i was impressed by the way they had turned the once workshop then store room and graduating it into the existing showroom ,
Must admit to feeling more at home with the lived in look from the Colonels day with it's bullet hole showroom glass caused by years of stones
thrown up by cars from the Egham by-pass ,the once red then pink faded Ferrari posters and you had to be careful how you walked in the showroom
of fear of catching your feet in the oil stained lifting floor tiles , A far cry from today's spotless showroom.
The brand and today's customers wouldn't tolerate that in today's market ,
Up until recently another old school company "Super Vettura " who have been selling Koenigsegg's and other super cars from their rather tired
showroom in Sunningdale , now has been demolished to make way for a grand new headquarters and showroom being built in it's place .
With most of the main dealers now run by major corporate company's all run by accountants and with a changing customer base this is what most
demand.i suppose.
ratrod 2 said:
As you say totally unrecognisable , Having bought my last Ferrari from them just over 7 years ago i was impressed by the way they had
turned the once workshop then store room and graduating it into the existing showroom ,
Must admit to feeling more at home with the lived in look from the Colonels day with it's bullet hole showroom glass caused by years of stones
thrown up by cars from the Egham by-pass ,the once red then pink faded Ferrari posters and you had to be careful how you walked in the showroom
of fear of catching your feet in the oil stained lifting floor tiles , A far cry from today's spotless showroom.
The brand and today's customers wouldn't tolerate that in today's market ,
Up until recently another old school company "Super Vettura " who have been selling Koenigsegg's and other super cars from their rather tired
showroom in Sunningdale , now has been demolished to make way for a grand new headquarters and showroom being built in it's place .
With most of the main dealers now run by major corporate company's all run by accountants and with a changing customer base this is what most
demand.i suppose.
I'd take the 80's..turned the once workshop then store room and graduating it into the existing showroom ,
Must admit to feeling more at home with the lived in look from the Colonels day with it's bullet hole showroom glass caused by years of stones
thrown up by cars from the Egham by-pass ,the once red then pink faded Ferrari posters and you had to be careful how you walked in the showroom
of fear of catching your feet in the oil stained lifting floor tiles , A far cry from today's spotless showroom.
The brand and today's customers wouldn't tolerate that in today's market ,
Up until recently another old school company "Super Vettura " who have been selling Koenigsegg's and other super cars from their rather tired
showroom in Sunningdale , now has been demolished to make way for a grand new headquarters and showroom being built in it's place .
With most of the main dealers now run by major corporate company's all run by accountants and with a changing customer base this is what most
demand.i suppose.
I much preferred hanging around Barry Martina's place with old racing cars abandoned in the mews outside!
ratrod 2 said:
This may or may not be of some interest to you being a Cobra owner but will try not to bore you to much ,
Back in the day i would buy my Ferrari's from Maranello's when owned privately by Colonel Ronnie Hoare who
more or less started Maranello's as a hobby and somewhere to maintain his Ferrari race cars having his main income from his Ford
dealership F English in Bournemouth along with a small showroom close to the main Bournemouth shopping centre and parks
for selling a few more exotic cars , my dad bought a Aston Martin DB 4 from them for the princely sum of £1,495 so going back a while
Maranello's was very much run as a family business with 9 to 5 hours apart from every third Saterday a salesman would have to work from 9 - 12 ,
On the death of the Colonel the business was sold to Inchcape and wasn't long before the orginal staff were replaced by a different generation
of salesman , My friend who was one of the longest standing salesman there was told he had to work a alternate 7 day week which he
replied we sell Ferrari's not Fords and refused to work on any Sunday as they were now working a full Saterday instead of the previous
9 - 12 hours and resigned ,not too long after he was followed by the rest of the original staff along with the sales manager Mark Konig
who drove for Ferrari at Le Mans and Sebring and also manufactured his own racing car named the Nomad BRM ,
My friend after doing a spell with Aston and Bristol Cars managed to get offered the position of sales manager
with Brian Angliss selling the MK 1V Autocraft Cobra ,My friend invited me to the factory which was at Brooklands ,
On my arrival i was greeted with rows and rows of completed Cobra's ,this was the early days when made with alloy bodies and fitted with the 302 Ford
V8 's before they resorted later to carbonfibre bodywork with the Lotus V8 .
Can't exactly remember the exact dates but i think there must have been some sort of recession going on at the time and although
i was told the cars were sold and awaiting collection with some being exported he said it with a wink because that what he had been told to say
to the customers ,If they showed some serious interest they would get a call from my friend to say they had a cancelled order and could take delivery
immediately and avoid the imaginary waiting list ,
My friend now in his late 70's has his own business selling Bristol cars in the west country and we still stay in touch .
Another one of my useless bits of information ,:
Thats incredibly interesting thank you and I didn't fully appreciate all of that. I knew a little but very interesting thank you for taking the time. I'm at Emblem on Monday to pick up my testarossa and drop off the Cobra for a spanner check. Back in the day i would buy my Ferrari's from Maranello's when owned privately by Colonel Ronnie Hoare who
more or less started Maranello's as a hobby and somewhere to maintain his Ferrari race cars having his main income from his Ford
dealership F English in Bournemouth along with a small showroom close to the main Bournemouth shopping centre and parks
for selling a few more exotic cars , my dad bought a Aston Martin DB 4 from them for the princely sum of £1,495 so going back a while
Maranello's was very much run as a family business with 9 to 5 hours apart from every third Saterday a salesman would have to work from 9 - 12 ,
On the death of the Colonel the business was sold to Inchcape and wasn't long before the orginal staff were replaced by a different generation
of salesman , My friend who was one of the longest standing salesman there was told he had to work a alternate 7 day week which he
replied we sell Ferrari's not Fords and refused to work on any Sunday as they were now working a full Saterday instead of the previous
9 - 12 hours and resigned ,not too long after he was followed by the rest of the original staff along with the sales manager Mark Konig
who drove for Ferrari at Le Mans and Sebring and also manufactured his own racing car named the Nomad BRM ,
My friend after doing a spell with Aston and Bristol Cars managed to get offered the position of sales manager
with Brian Angliss selling the MK 1V Autocraft Cobra ,My friend invited me to the factory which was at Brooklands ,
On my arrival i was greeted with rows and rows of completed Cobra's ,this was the early days when made with alloy bodies and fitted with the 302 Ford
V8 's before they resorted later to carbonfibre bodywork with the Lotus V8 .
Can't exactly remember the exact dates but i think there must have been some sort of recession going on at the time and although
i was told the cars were sold and awaiting collection with some being exported he said it with a wink because that what he had been told to say
to the customers ,If they showed some serious interest they would get a call from my friend to say they had a cancelled order and could take delivery
immediately and avoid the imaginary waiting list ,
My friend now in his late 70's has his own business selling Bristol cars in the west country and we still stay in touch .
Another one of my useless bits of information ,
:Edited by ratrod 2 on Wednesday 19th June 00:51
cgt2 said:
I'd take the 80's..
I much preferred hanging around Barry Martina's place with old racing cars abandoned in the mews outside!
Dan Margulies gentleman race driver who's classic and race car business was in one of the London Mews amongst others there, I much preferred hanging around Barry Martina's place with old racing cars abandoned in the mews outside!
Remember him jumping into a Maserati 250F grand prix car to road test it down the Cromwell Road ,
Back then the police would turn a blind eye ,not so sure that would work today.
Edited by ratrod 2 on Thursday 20th June 23:07
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