My 355F1 just gets better.....but I guess it's now worthless

[qwerty21]

No it is for sale at Lawton Brook.

[PAUL500]

My Buddys 355 is up around 230K kilometres now, runs like a swiss watch still and probably doubled in value regardless since he bought it about 3 years ago.

[dvb247]

A fellow FOC member had me laughing at the NW pub meet this week, he has clocked up 30k miles in 2 years in his F430 spider, he doesn't care one bit, told me to just drive it and enjoy it, life short etc etc

[Bo_apex]

good to hear 355's are no longer made of chocolate
I found the same with my 308, regularly clocking up long euro runs without reliability issues
another non-chocolate car is the 928 - 31,000 mile in two years. Cambelt, water pump and oil change is the service bill

[F1Sean]

dvb247 said:

he has clocked up 30k miles in 2 years in his F430 spider

Now that's a good effort.....I don't do that in my daily!!

[Pablo16v]

^^ Very nice, and my favourite colour on a 355.

There’s a 108K mile 355 GTS currently for sale at The Ferrari Centre http://www.theferraricentre.com/used-cars/542/ferr...

I spotted it in this month’s copy of Octane and immediately thought of this thread.

[dvb247]

gosh, if I had the money I'd buy that tomorrow, the only difference with this one and all the rest is this one isn't clocked, that said I heard there's a dealer in the south that will time warp the car and it's history for small money and TA DAAH you now have a 25k miles car !!!!!

[Jex]

The mileage issue is a trap. I've a 328 that will go down a lot in value if a put a few more miles on (going over 40k miles seems to drop the value about £20k). I'm now looking for a >40k miles 355(GTS) to drive longer distances and I'll keep the 328 for shorter journeys. The trouble is that the low mileage 'investment' cars seem to change hands quite frequently, but those of you with the higher mileage cars that you actually drive tend to hang on to them - don't blame you - that's my plan!
Jex

[Cactussed]

Exactly. Mine is a 'high' miler which I intend to sit on and use.
Albeit I intend to pull it to pieces again next year then put it back together, because I enjoy that as well.
It never gives me any real issues, probably because it gets driven and maintained regularly.

[F1Sean]

and of course the longer you own it, the more miles you do, the more maintenance you carry out......the more the car's history becomes "yours" so to speak, rendering the previous history more irrelevant.

To clarify I've owned my car only 18% of its life but driven 26% of its miles, which is a reasonable wedge of miles I think (given its done 50K now)

[Cactussed]

Good point. I've owned mine half its life and done at least half its miles, give or take.
that said, usage has collapsed with the arrival of marriage, mortgage and 2 small kids...
I see it now as a future hobby...

[MAVROS]

In July I took my yellow 360 to Le Mans, instead of driving straight there we took the ferry to Santander then travelled through Spain over the Pyrenees then headed North to our destination avoiding the motorways. Three days at the 24 hours then over to Brittany for four days and back to UK via Roscoff to Plymouth. Absolutely fantastic trip and met two blinding PH'ers Nick and Rob.
I've just returned from the ring where the car was thrashed mercilessly, so much that we broke it! Waiting for it to be recovered back to UK where it will be repaired then the next trip planned. As others have said I can't imagine not driving these cars. fk resale values my car is never getting sold, manual gearbox, screaming NA engine and weighs the same as a Ford Fiesta! Anyone who can resist taking these cars out every chance they get must be dead from the neck up.

[AndStilliRise]

MAVROS said:

In July I took my yellow 360 to Le Mans, instead of driving straight there we took the ferry to Santander then travelled through Spain over the Pyrenees then headed North to our destination avoiding the motorways. Three days at the 24 hours then over to Brittany for four days and back to UK via Roscoff to Plymouth. Absolutely fantastic trip and met two blinding PH'ers Nick and Rob.
I've just returned from the ring where the car was thrashed mercilessly, so much that we broke it! Waiting for it to be recovered back to UK where it will be repaired then the next trip planned. As others have said I can't imagine not driving these cars. fk resale values my car is never getting sold, manual gearbox, screaming NA engine and weighs the same as a Ford Fiesta! Anyone who can resist taking these cars out every chance they get must be dead from the neck up.

Good man. Big balls, love it.