Showing posts with label Ferrari. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ferrari. Show all posts
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
You can learn a lot from car guys, even ones that collect Lancias, in Pennsylvania... cool story from Car and Driver via the Vintage Racing League
Mike Kristick: "The Lancia people tell me not to sell any tool kits to Ferrari guys. They’re the same pieces as Ferrari tool kits, but they keep telling me that the Ferrari guys will pay three times as much. The fuel pump for a Lancia Flaminia is the same as a Ferrari’s; the Fulvia ignition is the same as a Ferrari’s. The Ferrari parts guys buy up all of the Lancia parts and jack up the prices to the Ferrari guys."
What began as a search for parts for the Fulvia has become, three decades later, what may be the largest inventory of salvaged and new-old-stock (NOS) Lancia parts on the continent.
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/ancient-grease-lancia-life-support-feature?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+caranddriver%2Fblog+%28Car+and+Driver%29
Saturday, February 4, 2012
barnfind Devin was hiding a Ferrari 340 America chassis... that will fetch 10000 times the ebay sale price of 26 thou if restored
But the short story is that this was a significant racecar, and when the original body was thoroughly damaged, a fiberglass Devin body was mounted 46 years ago, and the Ferrari lineage was forgotten. Out of sight, out of mind.
The seller bought it as a $200 project 15 years ago. It's a factory competition Ferrari, as the even numbered ones were, #0202 precisely. The car raced at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1952.
Luigi Chinetti bought it in 1953 and sold it to Ernie McAfee in Los Angeles.
Shaughnessy has the edge. "I already have a running engine, rear end, transmission, pedal box, radiator and oil cooler."
He even thinks he knows where the original V-12 engine is and hopes he might be able to persuade the owner to trade for his motor, which is close to the same number.
I learned about this barnfind at http://www.hagerty.com/classic-car-articles-resources/Features/News/All-Articles/2012/01/26/Top-five-barn-finds?utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_medium=email&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=January%20Hagerty%20News
Sunday, January 15, 2012
The least anyone ever paid for a Ferrari GTO: £750
A very famous collector, who has one of the finest noses for sniffing out a deal, hears a whisper that the first James Bond Aston Martin DB5 may be for sale. This is back in the day.
The word is that for the right money, the original James Bond car can be bought directly from the movie studio. So he makes a few calls, he tracks down the production guy, the one who can price and sell, and the guy says: “It’s gonna have to be 15 for the pair.”
“You mean there are two?”
“Hey man, this is showbusiness, there’s always two… at least.”
“But 15 for the pair,” says our man. “I wasn’t counting on spending that much and I don’t really want two – I just want one.”
“Well, that’s the deal. Take it or leave it.”
Fifteen thousand pounds – a lot of money now, a load of money then. Our hero hesitates for a moment, but his nose knows better. It tells him to deal, deal now. He buys the cars.
The cash is to be paid on delivery of both vehicles. The day arrives, the trailer pulls up, the cars roll off. The invoice reads: "Fifteen HUNDRED Pounds".
Yes friends, both original Bond cars for £1,500, but it doesn’t end there. Be prepared to run to the hills screaming.
Our man then swaps one of the Bond cars for a GTO. That’s a GTO for £750. That’s the cheapest GTO ever and... he still has it today.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/classiccars/3398352/Chris-Evans-Why-the-Ferrari-250-GTO-is-the-best-possible-investment.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/classiccars/3398352/Chris-Evans-Why-the-Ferrari-250-GTO-is-the-best-possible-investment.html
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Automobile Magazine Editor Jean Jennings (great writer too) is auctioning off a collection of the Ferrari Magazine for the JDRF charity, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
the entire collection of 2008-2011 is face valued at $1100, and you can view the Ebay auction here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/FERRARI-OFFICIAL-MAGAZINE-Complete-14-issue-set-2008-2011-Perfect-some-unopened-/190626161008?pt=Vintage_Sports_Memorabilia&hash=item2c62346170Update on Jan 12th, auction is up to 2200 dollars
Update Jan 27th, winning bid was 4050 dollars
Saturday, January 7, 2012
more cool stuff from SwissStache
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Monday, December 26, 2011
Celebrities and their cars
1953 Ferrari 250 MM Berlinetta and 1952 Ferrari 340 Mexico Berlinetta by Vignale, both made for racing the Carrera Panamericana
found on http://driven.urbandaddy.com/2011/04/19/1953-ferrari-250mm-berlinetta/
Images of Ralph Lauren's collection while at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris
Below, 1938 Alfa Romeo 8x 2900 Mille Miglia
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