Irrelevant Ferrari F40 RHD question....
Discussion
Totally hypothetical question - As i dont happen to have a massive lottery win.
But if i ever found myself in such a situation I would be buying and creating MY perfect F40, and not something to speculate with - Or appease the Classiche brigade with.
I would probably buy something that isn’t concourse, that has covered more than 5000km in its 30 years of existence, I really wouldn’t care if was an original UK car or from a foreign market.
I would address any shortcomings in ‘condition’ by having the car repainted in Tour De France Blue, and have those factory seats re-trimmed in Rosso leather. And whilst having the car mechanically overhauled. I would introduce enough modern technology so that the cars drivability was improved. But a loss to the cars character was minimised.
But the main thing I would want to do is have the car converted to right hand drive….
Now I know that technically it can be done – because of the 10 SOB cars converted by Pininfarina. And I am not aware that the conversion from left to right hand drive, has any negative affect on the feel of the car (unlike that of converting an e30 M3 or a HF Integrale).
So my (hypothetical) question is…. Have any other F40’s been converted to RHD over the last 30+ years? Would there be marque specialists in the UK that have the engineering capabilities to perform this conversion (to factory/Pininfarina) specification? And probably the biggest question – Given that pretty much anything can be done, if you have the money….. How much would you suppose a RHD conversion would cost?
Thanks in advance to anyone willing to indulge in my work time pondering.
But if i ever found myself in such a situation I would be buying and creating MY perfect F40, and not something to speculate with - Or appease the Classiche brigade with.
I would probably buy something that isn’t concourse, that has covered more than 5000km in its 30 years of existence, I really wouldn’t care if was an original UK car or from a foreign market.
I would address any shortcomings in ‘condition’ by having the car repainted in Tour De France Blue, and have those factory seats re-trimmed in Rosso leather. And whilst having the car mechanically overhauled. I would introduce enough modern technology so that the cars drivability was improved. But a loss to the cars character was minimised.
But the main thing I would want to do is have the car converted to right hand drive….
Now I know that technically it can be done – because of the 10 SOB cars converted by Pininfarina. And I am not aware that the conversion from left to right hand drive, has any negative affect on the feel of the car (unlike that of converting an e30 M3 or a HF Integrale).
So my (hypothetical) question is…. Have any other F40’s been converted to RHD over the last 30+ years? Would there be marque specialists in the UK that have the engineering capabilities to perform this conversion (to factory/Pininfarina) specification? And probably the biggest question – Given that pretty much anything can be done, if you have the money….. How much would you suppose a RHD conversion would cost?
Thanks in advance to anyone willing to indulge in my work time pondering.
Edited by richard300 on Tuesday 17th September 07:37
Edited by richard300 on Tuesday 17th September 07:39
WCZ said:
pininfarina still do conversions, an f40 won't be that expensive. I know a rhd enzo conversion was £200k+
That's very interesting that Pininfarina will still do such conversions... So they will do F40/F50 as per SOB cars? And I never even knew they had made RHD Enzo's.Edited by WCZ on Tuesday 17th September 12:14
I guess using Pininfarina is also the nearest one can claim the car to be 'factory RHD conversion.
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