612 Scaglietti

[Loz1234]

Anyone have any info on this car, looks really strange

[ironictwist]

Christ that's a rare one! :|

[JCB123]

Schaaaarrr-wing!

[LittleBro]

It looks like a photoshop to me - the lines around the bonet joins dont look right.

[mull]

Is it me or is the glass section the same as on a F430? me thinks its photoshop job too

[MogulBoy]

I think it could be real.. The reflections are pretty good but someone could have reversed an F430 into the same parking spot and then photographed that and merged the two but it looks like a 612 motor under there as the F430 motor looks quite different... It could be that the see through panel is from another model (not an F430 though, based on the below image) and not something totally bespoke but I'm not sure....

612 motor


An F430..


I'd say odd's on it is for real... but am prepared to eat humble pie if proved wrong!

Edited by MogulBoy on Tuesday 8th April 12:03

[Loz1234]

Theres another angle at the bottom of this page, only slightly different though:

http://300kmh.net/index.php?option=com_content&amp...

Edited by Loz1234 on Tuesday 8th April 12:05

[V8 GRF]

I'd say that's real.
I'm pretty handy with PS and to do one accurate image would be hard enough but to do two is pushing it.

I'd agree about the dodgy edges round the bonnet but it is likely to be a bespoke job. The car is registeed in the lands of 'money no object' so I think it's a rather ostentaious bit of modding for real.

It's quite nice compared to the dreadful stuff they used to do like gullwing S class Mercs in gold plate in the '80s.

[pastrana72]

Stunning, i would say real too not PS.

[MogulBoy]

It looks like an F430 spyder engine cover rotated by 180 degrees!

Cut & paste this... ( I can't hot link it )

http://picasaweb.google.com/scarsgo/WheelsOfItaly2...

[Sharief]

Insane.

Looks pretty cool, though.

[Dr JonboyG]

The thing is, if you were building one you'd use the F430 window anyway, so of course they look similar. The fact that there's two pics from different angles makes me think it's real.

[AbarthChris]

def photoshopped, thats an F430 Spyder engine cover but its way too small in comparison to the 612 bonnet. Also, if you look at the edges of the engine cover, the lines just look wrong

[RosCabezas]

Definitely photoshopped. The engine looks to be inside the footwell. And it's too small.

[andrew!]

the distance from the trailing edge of the bonnet to the rear edge of the "engine window" is neither consistent nor left-to-right symmetric

[MitchT]

There looks like palm trees reflected in the bonnet glass. I'd be surprised to see any palm trees growing in a car park and even more surprised to see them reflected in a piece of glass that's pointing pretty-much skywards.

[traxx]

It's not a PS, can't find the link on my blackberry but there is a thread on FC which explains the car details

iirc the collector also has quite a few other modified Fcars

[cronk-flakes]

traxx said:

It's not a PS, can't find the link on my blackberry but there is a thread on FC which explains the car details

iirc the collector also has quite a few other modified Fcars

That's just silly. That engine looks no bigger than my hand...

[AbarthChris]

cronk-flakes said:

traxx said:

It's not a PS, can't find the link on my blackberry but there is a thread on FC which explains the car details

iirc the collector also has quite a few other modified Fcars

That's just silly. That engine looks no bigger than my hand...

The proportions look about right if you compare it to this pic

Edited by AbarthChris on Wednesday 9th April 16:05

[Sharief]

traxx said:

It's not a PS, can't find the link on my blackberry but there is a thread on FC which explains the car details

iirc the collector also has quite a few other modified Fcars

Is it Ben Sulayem? Although he's more into his German pieces than Italian as I underestand it.