RE: Ear-ravishing convertibles | Six of the Best
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Coming at it with the mindset that my balls have dropped - only the lotus appeals. I’d have the tin top 458 or gt4 in a heartbeat but not the convertibles.
Lotus would be great to drive to and use at track days reasonably locally.
Boils my @@@@ that the aperta has not been used. You can’t understand and bond in 100 miles in a car. Even if it was only 1000 miles on it I’d be less furious with the owner
Lotus would be great to drive to and use at track days reasonably locally.
Boils my @@@@ that the aperta has not been used. You can’t understand and bond in 100 miles in a car. Even if it was only 1000 miles on it I’d be less furious with the owner
Blimey, that list has a much lower mileage than my one car, and isn't that leggy.
For a much cheaper way to do it, how's about this? https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202309051...
For a much cheaper way to do it, how's about this? https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202309051...
Slowlygettingit said:
Coming at it with the mindset that my balls have dropped - only the lotus appeals. I’d have the tin top 458 or gt4 in a heartbeat but not the convertibles.
Lotus would be great to drive to and use at track days reasonably locally.
Boils my @@@@ that the aperta has not been used. You can’t understand and bond in 100 miles in a car. Even if it was only 1000 miles on it I’d be less furious with the owner
Relax, he'll have driven it then put it on a dyno in reverse gear to rewind the miles back.Lotus would be great to drive to and use at track days reasonably locally.
Boils my @@@@ that the aperta has not been used. You can’t understand and bond in 100 miles in a car. Even if it was only 1000 miles on it I’d be less furious with the owner
AmazingGrace said:
Yeah absolutely. Travesty to not even put a few hundred miles on it each year. What a waste
The Ferrari has been purchased absolutely as an investment. It was supplied in Edinburgh and serviced in Nottingham yet had done 80 miles in between. It has been to successive services where it has done no miles - it has clearly been trailered everywhere. I’d imagine the first owner is a bit miffed that it’s racked up as many miles as it has!Just to add a bit of balance, it’s really cool that reference examples of cars exist. As time passes, it’s amazing to be able to walk into a building and see interesting objects that have frozen time like this. It’s a lot of effort, too. One slip in handling and the car needs paint and the whole point of it is lost.
I expect the owner has other Ferrari’s (they’d be unlikely to be offered an Aperta allocation if not) and so the context of having something like this as a collectors piece is different.
In everyone’s minds here the owner is heading off on his pushbike whilst staring wistfully back at the Ferrari wishing he dare drive it one day. In reality, that’s not happening and your man is bombing around in his Pista or coupe Speciale whilst enjoying seeing the Aperta gleaming in the garage alongside his F40 and F50 or whatever. Surely you can see the appeal of that?
I expect the owner has other Ferrari’s (they’d be unlikely to be offered an Aperta allocation if not) and so the context of having something like this as a collectors piece is different.
In everyone’s minds here the owner is heading off on his pushbike whilst staring wistfully back at the Ferrari wishing he dare drive it one day. In reality, that’s not happening and your man is bombing around in his Pista or coupe Speciale whilst enjoying seeing the Aperta gleaming in the garage alongside his F40 and F50 or whatever. Surely you can see the appeal of that?
k me, pushing quarter of a million for a Boxster? And how much for that ugly, old Merc? I really am naïve.
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