| Author | Message | ||
| Bak-a-lack-a Bak-a-lacka-lacka ! (Chris_n_chicago)
Member Username: Chris_n_chicago Post Number: 394 Registered: 3-2002 |
Lesson of the day..... *** Do not bring your F40's to Iraq ****** | ||
| Sunny Garofalo (Jaguarxj6)
Junior Member Username: Jaguarxj6 Post Number: 236 Registered: 2-2003 |
Arlie, Just because its "restored" doesn't mean its any less of an F40 then when it left the factory floor, in my opinion. What will you say in 25 or 50 years.. "Thats a beautiful F40" or, "Gah, its been repainted and rebuilt, its one of those replicas!" I don't think anyone mentioned the word original until your post. Drive it, love it, and repair it like these two people did. That gets a big thumbs up from me. You don't own a car like this because your going for Concours Preservation class points. For my first love (marque), there's a special class for original unmolested cars and then everything else falls into the normal categories. To each their own. Sunny | ||
| "The Don" (Mlemus)
Advanced Member Username: Mlemus Post Number: 3402 Registered: 8-2002 |
Arlie, Is there no winning with you? Matt | ||
| Horsefly (Arlie)
Member Username: Arlie Post Number: 913 Registered: 5-2002 |
That Dutch F40 must have been a real labor of love, HOWEVER, in the end, it's like that P-38 fighter plane recovered from under the ice in Greenland and later "restored". If "restored" means that 90 percent of the plane/car was reproduced in order to have something to hang the original serial number tag upon, then yes, it is "restored". It was said even better by somebody else on another posting: If I build a piece of furniture out of 200 year old wood, will that make it an "original" piece of antique furniture"? | ||
| "The Don" (Mlemus)
Advanced Member Username: Mlemus Post Number: 3394 Registered: 8-2002 |
Art, It's in the May Forza. I can send it to you. Matt | ||
| arthur chambers (Art355)
Intermediate Member Username: Art355 Post Number: 1175 Registered: 6-2001 |
I'd like to see the rebuilt one. Looks like an impossible task from these shots. Art | ||
| William H (Countachxx)
Intermediate Member Username: Countachxx Post Number: 2176 Registered: 2-2001 |
bottom 1 looks like a train hit it, poor car | ||
| Ron Thomas (Ronsupercar)
Member Username: Ronsupercar Post Number: 556 Registered: 5-2002 |
How Rude! | ||
| "The Don" (Mlemus)
Advanced Member Username: Mlemus Post Number: 3369 Registered: 8-2002 |
Dave, His car is in the New Forza. Great article. Matt | ||
| TomD (Tifosi)
Advanced Member Username: Tifosi Post Number: 3109 Registered: 9-2001 |
yeah and roland's car has a clear title  he was also fortunate enough to come across a crate engine on ebay from what the article said | ||
| Martin - Cavallino Motors (Miami348ts)
Advanced Member Username: Miami348ts Post Number: 4173 Registered: 5-2001 |
yes, both of them have been retored. You have to have faith and $$$ to see the end result. In Roland's case it took some 2 years in the other case it took 3 or 4 if i remember correctly. | ||
| Dave Penhale (Dapper)
Member Username: Dapper Post Number: 599 Registered: 4-2002 |
MLEMUS are you saying the top picture car has been restored? just begs the question how bad would one of these cars have to be for everyone to walk away from restoring it? | ||
| "The Don" (Mlemus)
Advanced Member Username: Mlemus Post Number: 3366 Registered: 8-2002 |
To see the top one repaired, get the new Forza. | ||
| PSk (Psk)
Member Username: Psk Post Number: 308 Registered: 11-2002 |
I'd take on a wreck like those, er, have to another a lot longer and better look at the top one as it looks to far gone ... but you never know, and it should be CHEAP That would be my only chance of ever getting an F40 and it is just a space framed chassis plastic car after all ... so can be fixed. The bottom one looks like the engine and important stuff survived so a good restoration project ... and what an end result, awesome!!! Pete | ||
| Ansgar Schürmeyer (Taunus)
Junior Member Username: Taunus Post Number: 139 Registered: 6-2002 |
The bottom pic is the now rebuilt car from www.ferrarif40.de ! The pics are still on the site. He sells high-resolution pics of the story on cd. | ||
| "The Don" (Mlemus)
Advanced Member Username: Mlemus Post Number: 3353 Registered: 8-2002 |
The top picture is is Roland's car. The bottom one is the one the guy took apart. | ||
| Dr Tommy Cosgrove (Vwalfa4re)
Member Username: Vwalfa4re Post Number: 977 Registered: 5-2001 |
Wow | ||
| Andy Falsetta (Tuttebenne)
New member Username: Tuttebenne Post Number: 11 Registered: 3-2003 |
What did that instructor tell me? Was it "lift when it starts to slide or don't lift when it starts to slide?" Or slide it when it starts to lift.... or... awe hell, let me hit the brakes" | ||
| Roel de Fouw (Spawnz)
Junior Member Username: Spawnz Post Number: 134 Registered: 6-2002 |
I believe the bottom one is the F40 that the guy from http://www.ferrarif40.de/ totally took apart and rebuilt.... yes, I'm 99% positive its this car. Best project ever. ps: Im not sure if he took al the photos of the restauration down from his site and is selling the story on cd now, but if he is.... its a shame. Was great to see the whole process online. Anyway, good to see that atleast one of these two beauties has been reborn again. | ||
| Sunny Garofalo (Jaguarxj6)
Junior Member Username: Jaguarxj6 Post Number: 223 Registered: 2-2003 |
*pretending I didn't see these* *pretending I didn't see these* *pretendin..." | ||
| Eric (Vette)
New member Username: Vette Post Number: 22 Registered: 3-2003 |
if the guys that drove those cars survived the crash..... can I kill them? | ||
| Chris F. (Dallasguy)
Junior Member Username: Dallasguy Post Number: 74 Registered: 10-2002 |
I bet the tears really flowed after that. | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Advanced Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 3006 Registered: 8-2002 |
That's just wrong...  | ||
| jeff ryerson (Atheyg)
Junior Member Username: Atheyg Post Number: 210 Registered: 8-2002 |
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