F40 prices

[Fast Eddie]

rat rod said:

That's not the Maranello's F40 is it, I was around Maranello's that day, the car had just been picked up, could tell something untoward was going on

but didn't here what had happened till the next day ,couldn't help feeling a little sorry for the guilty salesman in question ,nice lad but to much of a car

nut to resist the temptation He got sacked not for crashing the F40 but for leaving the showroom unattended ,suppose they couldn't say

he didn't have permission to take it out as there was the chance the insurance company may have wriggled ,

Another time i was in QV's and they were busy looking for body parts for a F40 but not through the normal Ferrari network as the owner

didn't want it known that he had crashed his car ,not a easy task i should imagine, apparently he had gone out for a Christmas morning blast

and run out of talent, must have put a damper on the Christmas fastivities.

Edited by rat rod on Friday 28th October 22:42

I love that expression ''ran out of talent''

[ChocolateFrog]

cgt2 said:

I was offered an F40 for £90,000 in 1999...I was about £30k short and bought a 355 instead.

I say it everytime these threads come up but circa 2005 while I was uni I was trying to work out if I could get a mortgage and instead of buying a house buy the 170k F40 I kept looking at.

Did seem cheap back then.

[jwdh1]

Fessia fancier said:

jwdh1 said:

I'd agree with that, something awry going on there, hit big numbers very quickly and wasn't what could be termed a "good" F40. Current one ticks all the boxes and is at 1.75m with 6 days to go so my 1.8m estimate is looking low!

The thing is that with any auction until it has actually hit the reserve the bids are not necessarily real. I say this not with specific reference to CC, but generally.

Must have hit the reserve as it’s now showing as “No Reserve” - still think the last flurries will take it to £2m now the bids are as high as they are and everyone knows the car is selling…

[SydneyBridge]

The F40 from the Jon Hunt collection at Sothebys struggled to reach £1,250,000 yesterday

[TR4man]

SydneyBridge said:

The F40 from the Jon Hunt collection at Sothebys struggled to reach £1,250,000 yesterday

I wonder if potential bidders were put off by the YouTube video of it having a damn good thrashing around his farm?

[Fessia fancier]

SydneyBridge said:

The F40 from the Jon Hunt collection at Sothebys struggled to reach £1,250,000 yesterday

With the commission it shows at about 1.4m. It had new front and rear clamshells, too.

[PAUL.S.]

rat rod said:

jwdh1 said:

rat rod said:

Zadkiel said:

It seems highly unusual that that amount would not have met reserve. Would be great if anyone knew the true story here.

See there is a F40 in RM sothebys auction on the 5th November,from a large collection,

estimate is £1.4-£1.6 million which seems more realistic (can't believe i just said that )

it is a 48k km car with a previous accident, so quite a lot for a non-collectible? The only ones that struck me as being "priced right" were the F50 and 288?

That's not the Maranello's F40 is it, I was around Maranello's that day, the car had just been picked up, could tell something untoward was going on

but didn't here what had happened till the next day ,couldn't help feeling a little sorry for the guilty salesman in question ,nice lad but to much of a car

nut to resist the temptation He got sacked not for crashing the F40 but for leaving the showroom unattended ,suppose they couldn't say

he didn't have permission to take it out as there was the chance the insurance company may have wriggled ,

Another time i was in QV's and they were busy looking for body parts for a F40 but not through the normal Ferrari network as the owner

didn't want it known that he had crashed his car ,not a easy task i should imagine, apparently he had gone out for a Christmas morning blast

and run out of talent, must have put a damper on the Christmas fastivities.

Edited by rat rod on Friday 28th October 22:42

I recall an engineer from Tyrell stating that the Maranello F40 was taken down to them in Ockham to see if they could repair the damage as they were the only people in the region with composite experience back then, but the damage was too great to repair and new panels were required.

Sounds as if it was trying to be kept hush hush from the factory.

[LotusOmega375D]

Back in about 2000, I was sent on a fork lift truck training course in South Devon. One of the neighbouring industrial units had the rear clamshell of an F50 hanging on the wall. I wandered over and asked about it: apparently the owner of the unit had an F50 and had crashed it. He had kept the rear clamshell as a souvenir. Coincidentally, not long after I visited a carbon fibre component manufacturer near Pescara, central Italy for some reason or other. Lo and behold, in Reception they had an unadorned F50 carbon fibre tub. Turns out this was the company who had made them all for Ferrari a few years earlier. People still think of this as cutting-edge technology on road cars, but these guys were churning them out nigh on 30 years ago.

[anonymous-user]

Fessia fancier said:

jwdh1 said:

I'd agree with that, something awry going on there, hit big numbers very quickly and wasn't what could be termed a "good" F40. Current one ticks all the boxes and is at 1.75m with 6 days to go so my 1.8m estimate is looking low!

The thing is that with any auction until it has actually hit the reserve the bids are not necessarily real. I say this not with specific reference to CC, but generally.

CC and other auction houses use ‘chandelier’ bidding which is the house bidding up to the reserve. It’s legal but not widely known outside of the trade and used to generate an impression that there is interest in an item being auctioned to encourage real bidders.

[DarthtaterM16]

Amari had a 14,750 mile F40 listed at £4m (or possibly even £5m!) on their website at the weekend. I looked again this morning and it's been dropped to £2.3m.

Meridien Modena have a 13,000 miler listed at £2.2m.

Edited by DarthtaterM16 on Wednesday 4th January 09:14

[SydneyBridge]

I remember seeing a F40 at Meridian many years ago for £200k, thinking that was a bit pricey.....

[POORCARDEALER]

cgt2 said:

I was offered an F40 for £90,000 in 1999...I was about £30k short and bought a 355 instead.

I sold a 10000 miler for £115k in 96