The Best ///M/Barge/General Rant/Look at this/O/T(Vol XIX)
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Output Flange said:
Last Friday was my first time on track for about five years, and in something I bought specifically for the trackday for under £1000 including fettling.
And (ignoring the fact it was dog-slow on the straights) it was a riot!
Properly quick through the corners, and really adjustable on the brakes.
It's given me the hurry-up to get my E28 race car back together.
Tremendous!!!And (ignoring the fact it was dog-slow on the straights) it was a riot!
Properly quick through the corners, and really adjustable on the brakes.
It's given me the hurry-up to get my E28 race car back together.
DeejRC said:
Deposit is paid!
https://preowned.ferrari.com/en/gb/search/2016/fer...
Its more than I planned, but its Dubonnet!! As far as I am concerned Dubonnet is the classiest colour that motor cars have ever been painted in. Combined with a 2016 plate, 2 yrs of gratis servicing and an amount of miles less than most of my shoes...well, the deal works for me.
Yes, there is a metric f
kton of man maths involved!
Stunning car, Well done! https://preowned.ferrari.com/en/gb/search/2016/fer...
Its more than I planned, but its Dubonnet!! As far as I am concerned Dubonnet is the classiest colour that motor cars have ever been painted in. Combined with a 2016 plate, 2 yrs of gratis servicing and an amount of miles less than most of my shoes...well, the deal works for me.
Yes, there is a metric f
kton of man maths involved!You’re a long time dead as they say.
A long time dead is indeed a large part of this. My Covid "truth" (to use modern hip yoof woke speak) has been a little different to most. For reasons various, rather than furlough and partial wfh, it has ended up being 18months of 7 days/week flat out working myself into an early grave. As my wife put it, if you keep this up - you will kill yourself. (She may have also said you unfit, fat, old knacker).
So, its a time to try and bring a little balance to my life and celebrate the dying days of the V12. What better way to do it than with arguably the greatest variant of a greatest hit?
A 2 seat Berlinetta is the epitome of Ferrari to me. Im afraid Im rather with the old man, when he said its a V12 or fk off. Just as I hold the equally outdated and silly notion that English rivals should be packing 6 cylinders in line or 12 when they get serious.
Whilst I idolise the immortals of SWB and 275, my name is neither Mason nor Cottingham. As a baby of the 70s and child of the 80s, my models were BBs and Testarossas. I could in theory, indulge myself here, but there are 3 problems with those:
1. The rhd 308GTS taught me the invaluable lesson that 70/80s Ferrari were built by Italian communists who detested rich foreign people buying their product, therefore built them crapily anyway and actively intended to cripple those who drove from the right hand seat. Lesson learnt.
2. I had a chance to buy both when they £30-50k. Im too northern to consider them at £150-200k.
3. The reality of running an older car is...a pain in the arse. I don't need that grief these days to be honest. If Im spending this wedge, I intend to enjoy the motor, why the hell wouldn't I ? The ever patient lady wife isn't quite so ever patient these days and is much much less likely to look on with an indulgent smile on her face at a stonkingly high bill arriving after the previous one was just paid which left her stranded somewhere. With no air con. Or heavy bottom button. Or USB port, etc, etc
And an 812 is a middle aged version of an F12 with botox and a personal trainer.
So, its a time to try and bring a little balance to my life and celebrate the dying days of the V12. What better way to do it than with arguably the greatest variant of a greatest hit?
A 2 seat Berlinetta is the epitome of Ferrari to me. Im afraid Im rather with the old man, when he said its a V12 or f
k off. Just as I hold the equally outdated and silly notion that English rivals should be packing 6 cylinders in line or 12 when they get serious.Whilst I idolise the immortals of SWB and 275, my name is neither Mason nor Cottingham. As a baby of the 70s and child of the 80s, my models were BBs and Testarossas. I could in theory, indulge myself here, but there are 3 problems with those:
1. The rhd 308GTS taught me the invaluable lesson that 70/80s Ferrari were built by Italian communists who detested rich foreign people buying their product, therefore built them crapily anyway and actively intended to cripple those who drove from the right hand seat. Lesson learnt.
2. I had a chance to buy both when they £30-50k. Im too northern to consider them at £150-200k.
3. The reality of running an older car is...a pain in the arse. I don't need that grief these days to be honest. If Im spending this wedge, I intend to enjoy the motor, why the hell wouldn't I ? The ever patient lady wife isn't quite so ever patient these days and is much much less likely to look on with an indulgent smile on her face at a stonkingly high bill arriving after the previous one was just paid which left her stranded somewhere. With no air con. Or heavy bottom button. Or USB port, etc, etc
And an 812 is a middle aged version of an F12 with botox and a personal trainer.
DeejRC said:
Deposit is paid!
https://preowned.ferrari.com/en/gb/search/2016/fer...
Its more than I planned, but its Dubonnet!! As far as I am concerned Dubonnet is the classiest colour that motor cars have ever been painted in. Combined with a 2016 plate, 2 yrs of gratis servicing and an amount of miles less than most of my shoes...well, the deal works for me.
Yes, there is a metric fkton of man maths involved!
Wowhttps://preowned.ferrari.com/en/gb/search/2016/fer...
Its more than I planned, but its Dubonnet!! As far as I am concerned Dubonnet is the classiest colour that motor cars have ever been painted in. Combined with a 2016 plate, 2 yrs of gratis servicing and an amount of miles less than most of my shoes...well, the deal works for me.
Yes, there is a metric f
kton of man maths involved!
DeejRC said:
Deposit is paid!
https://preowned.ferrari.com/en/gb/search/2016/fer...
Its more than I planned, but its Dubonnet!! As far as I am concerned Dubonnet is the classiest colour that motor cars have ever been painted in. Combined with a 2016 plate, 2 yrs of gratis servicing and an amount of miles less than most of my shoes...well, the deal works for me.
Yes, there is a metric fkton of man maths involved!
My mate somehow got a full day bonkers style test drive with added instructor at MIRA in a F12 back when these 1st came out. It lives long in the memory as the instructors encouraged nay insisted on full bore launch after full bore launch. Not something he would ever do to any of his own cars, but he felt it stood up to the abuse extremely well.. Health to drive it and I hope it gets to be more than a garage queen.https://preowned.ferrari.com/en/gb/search/2016/fer...
Its more than I planned, but its Dubonnet!! As far as I am concerned Dubonnet is the classiest colour that motor cars have ever been painted in. Combined with a 2016 plate, 2 yrs of gratis servicing and an amount of miles less than most of my shoes...well, the deal works for me.
Yes, there is a metric f
kton of man maths involved!T5…I sold privately. Mentioned on the 4C thread that she was going to be put on Collecting Cars after I’d just tidied and prepped her. Was contacted by a member and did the deal. She was priced to sell given her miles, but a fully loaded spec and pampered at Alfaworks.
Easy buyer to deal with, open and honest on both our sides. He got a spanking car, loved the Alfa!
Easy buyer to deal with, open and honest on both our sides. He got a spanking car, loved the Alfa!
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