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Ranger 6

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7,042 posts

248 months

Thursday 17th May 2018
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What an unusual take on a 'rat look'......



larrylamb11

577 posts

250 months

Thursday 17th May 2018
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It's outstanding!
I saw this in the flesh at Porsche Reading last night and it's fabulously dog-eared. I presume it's a prior insurance write off or some such as I can't imagine lopping the roof off a car for fun otherwise... although there is no accounting for some tastes. I can appreciate what the owner is trying to do and I think they have achieved the desired result! I wouldn't personally want my own car in the same style, but if you want to get noticed and stick two fingers up at the shiny Ferrari brigade this is certainly one way of achieving that. I suspect this car would draw a crowd around it all day, even in exalted company simply because it is different and there is so much to marvel at - from the ripply, cracked, badly finished body to the tired and crumbling interior... there is a certain delicious decay to it...
Perhaps better to see it out on the road, a car being truly relished, enjoyed and used up, rather than festering in a climate controlled bubble - though that is a debate for another thread perhaps.
From my point of view, bravo. Props to the owner and I hope they enjoy it - I look forward to shaking their hand should I ever have the opportunity to meet them in person.

Ranger 6

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7,042 posts

248 months

Thursday 17th May 2018
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larrylamb11 said:
It's outstanding!

....From my point of view, bravo.
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hurstg01

2,909 posts

242 months

Thursday 17th May 2018
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I saw at it Easthampstead Park at the weekend and thought it was mid-restoration?.......

Doofus

25,732 posts

172 months

Thursday 17th May 2018
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There was one built officially, for Gianni Agnelli, but the others were all aftermarket.

hurstg01

2,909 posts

242 months

Thursday 17th May 2018
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Doofus said:
There was one built officially, for Gianni Agnelli, but the others were all aftermarket.
My facebook post with pictures of it went along the lines of - 'Gianni Agnelli's personal meth-Testarossa Spider - don't do drugs kids'

Nik da Greek

2,503 posts

149 months

Thursday 17th May 2018
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hurstg01 said:
I saw at it Easthampstead Park at the weekend and thought it was mid-restoration?.......
Likewise. Because surely only the worst kind of M*x P*wer barryboys type would rat down all the paintwork but leave the plastic parts still in paint/gelcoat? So it looks really badly contrived, forced and generally just... well.... st rolleyes

Trying too hard always fails


p.s. those pics fail to show the interior, complete with seats that look as though they were re-connolised with Dulux. Using a catapult

Ranger 6

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248 months

Thursday 17th May 2018
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Doesn't show the seats too well - I thought the interior was OK and leaving the strakes and mirrors in red was a nice touch.


Nik da Greek

2,503 posts

149 months

Thursday 17th May 2018
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Fair enough, horses for courses. My personal feeling is I like rat cars when they've got that way through just surviving a long time and earned their grime/bad paint/dents/whatever. It grates my teeth to see rat-look cars where someone's thrown paintstripper over it/painted it grey/chucked loads of stupid tat on a roofrack.

And leaving the plastics red on that Testarossa to me just screams "I had a look in my head that I got off Instagram but I don't know how to get there. So I'll just leave those bits and call it intentional"

Larry5.2

496 posts

107 months

Thursday 17th May 2018
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Shabby Chic for cars?? Or is it a wrap?

Is the number plate worth more than the car...?

yellowtr

1,188 posts

225 months

Thursday 17th May 2018
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Don't knock it, the owner is proper petrolhead and a very decent bloke and a multiple Ferrari owner.

The story behind the car is brilliant. Credit to him he is doing all the work himself and has learnt the hardway too. You can follow the story on Ferrarichat.

Ranger 6

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Friday 18th May 2018
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yellowtr said:
....follow the story on Ferrarichat.
Just a shame you can't see the pictures

Nik da Greek

2,503 posts

149 months

Friday 18th May 2018
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yellowtr said:
Don't knock it, the owner is proper petrolhead and a very decent bloke and a multiple Ferrari owner.

The story behind the car is brilliant. Credit to him he is doing all the work himself and has learnt the hardway too. You can follow the story on Ferrarichat.
With all respect, I don't see why being a nice bloke is any barrier to owning a st-looking car? The two things aren't necessarily mutually exclusive

PAUL500

2,627 posts

245 months

Friday 25th May 2018
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The car has not been made to look like it does, its how it turned up from the states in boxes! its a rolling restoration that can be used in the meantime not faked patina/neglect, its genuine patina/neglect!

The owner is having a ball working his way through the car getting everything working again.