Does anyone know these 360 Manuals?

[Gibbo205]

Hi there

Am contemplating going back in a time a little in Ferrari ownership with something like a 360 Modena Manual, any colour considered but must be RHD and a manual. Would rather prefer a high mileage car on fresh suspension and mods welcome, so far found these two cars advertised online which look rather nice, quite steep on price but guess that is manual tax:

https://wizardclassics.com/vehicles/ferrari-360-mo...

https://www.yourbestcar.co.uk/used/cars/ferrari/36...

Now I know a 360 a big step backwards in performance compared to a 458 but I do have a 600 LT Spider in the garage too which has crazy performance levels so I am pondering dropping the 458 as I kind of don't need two silly fast supercars.
Now I'd love a 360 in yellow, but cannot see any manual coupes for sale, I think older Ferrari's red was more the colour to have whereas the modern aged Ferrari buyer is more adventorous with colour choice, and I am thankful for that as red gets a bit boring.

Anyway back to the question in hand does anyone know the history of the two above 360's please? As I say it is a decision I've not truly decided on, ideally I do need to try and find a 360 manual to drive, I am not sure about the F1 box, I've had an E46 M3 CSL and an E60 M5 and did get along with the single clutch gearbox but maybe the one in the 360 is not as good, but at same time I really like the idea on the gated manual shifter.

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[Gibbo205]

davek_964 said:

I don't know the cars, but those prices are insane.

I sold my (non red) 360 manual with similar mileage just under 3 years ago, and it was advertised for £30k less than those. I know prices have gone up, but they haven't gone up that much - there were similarly stupidly priced cars for sale when I sold mine (£75k) which I thought was insane. There were 2 or 3 other manuals advertised at similar price to mine when I sold it.

I loved mine - it was a great car. But I'd have to be taking some damn good mind altering drugs to pay anything like £80k for one.

Yeah they are steeply priced, been for sale for quite some time as well so clearly the market sentiment agrees about the silly pricing.

[Gibbo205]

rat rod said:

With the high gap between a F1 and manual 430's it sounds like the sellers are trying to talk the market up ,

For what ever reason the gap on the 360 is no way near as high as the 430,

I've just replaced my F430 with a 1981 last of the carburetters 308 GTS ,

Sometimes you got to go backwards to go forward

Well I've got a 1978 Corvette Pace car so that is about as far as I want to go backwards.

[Gibbo205]

rat rod said:

Think we have had similar conversation before but it's funny how things have changed,not that long ago a Super Car owner wouldn't been seen

dead in a yank, Classed as vulgar Del-boys cars but now it's a different story with them sharing large European car collections and far cooler than

most Super cars bar Lamborghini's maybe.everyone seems to love a Lambo over other exotics.

My Bullitt Mustang buyer bought for it for his wife replacing her Alfa Spyder and is now rubbing shoulders with a Dino,E Type ,two Astons and a

Derby Bentley ,

Looks like the best kept secret is out .

Edited by rat rod on Monday 6th March 21:13

Sometimes the older cars are more of an occasion, if your not tracking and not bothered about going fast a classic really delivers a lot of enjoyment, of course if you pedal one at national speed limit you feel like your going plenty fast enough anyway.

It why although not a classic by age, I've added a Caterham 420R to my garage as its more fun to drive than any supercar when your up for it and ace on track too.

Of course there is always a place to have a supercar in the collection because a Ferrari, Mclaren, Lamborghini is a very special thing.

[Gibbo205]

Had a look at a couple of 360’s one of which I had an inspection done which revealed quite a list.

Found another but HPI showed it had been repainted from grey to red in 2008 which was a shame as red coupe manual with red bucket seats for 50k, but colour change screams to me it no doubt had a bump, plus it’s a bit red on the interior too.

Certainly not pricing easy to find a manual coupe 360.

Still notice the two cars I linked to both for sale maybe I should just offer 20k below their ask, too insulting maybe?

[Gibbo205]

tomtom said:

Malc on club scud was talking of selling his manual, racing seats, coupe a while ago. Might be worth a look.

If it is same guy, he gave up on selling after time wasters and is now in a position where he wishes to keep it, don't blame him.

I was going to look at this one:
https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/14960188

The interior believe it or not does not put me off.

Unfortunately, I ran an HPI check which revealed in 2008/2009 the colour of the car was changed from grey to red, now this could be totally genuine reasoning or it could be more sinister. The paint job seems high quality but my worry is that was this carried out due to an accident as 360's are not so easy to repaint as you need to either open the headlights which is very hard to do or buy new very expensive units.

Either way innocent or not a colour change hits the value hard, but I wonder if anyone here knows the car or was a previous keeper of it as the interior spec of the car is very unique.