Classic Ferrari 512BB

[nismo48]

https://collectingcars.com/for-sale/1980-ferrari-5...

Any thoughts

[Petrus1983]

Personally I don’t get it.

[deadslow]

aaaarrrgghhh!!!!!! my eyes!!

[aeropilot]

The epitome of bad taste...... sums up everything that was hideous about the 1980's in a nutshell.

[markiii]

Koenig destroyed the lines on anything they touched back in the day, give me a standard 512 any day

[Largechris]

Flicking through the documentation supplied, if all the Koenig options (clutch, hardened engine internals, exhaust, power hike etc.) have been done then it looks quite a car TBH.

Not necessarily tasteful, but quite an event to drive I imagine.

I never thought much of the 512 looks, so nothing lost really.

[lukeharding]

I love it, but then I love Koenig cars in general!

[Om]

Has it had a front lift kit added or did the 'rebuild of the shock absorbers' not go entirely to plan?

The 512 BB was a fine looking car, if not the most beautiful Ferrari of its era. This one has more than a whiff of Miami drug dealer about it...

[4rephill]

markiii said:

Koenig destroyed the lines on anything they touched back in the day........

Really? :

[markiii]

whilst its the most tasteful Koenig I've seem, yep ruined when you consider what it started as

[aeropilot]

4rephill said:

markiii said:

Koenig destroyed the lines on anything they touched back in the day........

Really? :

Another hideous Koenig creation.

[Coatesy351]

Don't like the BB

Do like this though.

[Dapster]

markiii said:

Koenig destroyed the lines on anything they touched back in the day

I personally think Koenig ruined everything he turned his hand to. Anyone remember the 911 Turbo Road Runner with the full width Audi real lights or the Mercedes SEC convertible?

Edited by Dapster on Sunday 12th June 18:18

[hilly10]

Now that Merc above is woeful

[aeropilot]

Dapster said:

I personally think Koenig ruined everything he turned his hand to. Anyone remember the 911 Turbo Road Runner with the full width Audi real lights or the Mercedes SEC convertible?

I remember that abomination of a 911

[Equus]

Dapster said:

markiii said:

Koenig destroyed the lines on anything they touched back in the day

I personally think Koenig ruined everything he turned his hand to.

Surely that's the whole point of the exercise, though?

Buying one of these cars, back in the day, was simply a statement that not only were you rich enough to buy one of the most expensive supercars on the market, you were rich enough to spend a stload more money fking it up to the point that it was unsellabe afterwards and not care?

I think think that a lot of people fail to get this, when assessing the 'taste' of middle- and far-eastern buyers - there's a huge dose of deliberate I'm-so-rich-that-I-don't-need-to-give-a-fk involved.

[LotusOmega375D]

This one used to dominate FOC races in the mid 1980s. I think it was twin turbo. I took these photos at Donington ca. 1985. The Testarossa also participated (Hugh Dundas) and finished mid table: the first time one had ever competed in a race according to the commentator.

[wpa1975]

I think I would prefer a standard 512, such a classic shape.

[LotusOmega375D]

Funny how Koenig added side strakes to cars that didn’t originally have them like the above 512, but then removed them from the cars that did have them like the Testarossa.

[mike9009]

I quite like it, but it does have an 'air' of Kitcar about it, which is probably why I like it.