I don't know the car, I just found the pics. What color is this? I love it. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Hello, The page Ferrari 365 GTC/4 Detailed Information has many colors shown (among which many different variants of red). For this car, difficult to tell, there is a big difference between the picture where the color appears to be clear thanks to the sunlight and the two pictures where the paint appears darker (when the car is in the shade).
Let me elaborate on Aidan's incomplete answer: Dark Red. Looks like Rosso Nearco but, as Vintage V12 points out, there are a lot of colors close to that.
I'll try to remember to look at this when I get home. It looks like the red in the center. . Image Unavailable, Please Login
To be honest I'm not sure. Back in the mid 2000's when my business was screaming I bought every 400i, GT4, and Dino trinket that was for sale no matter where it was located. I ended up with some pretty cool stuff. This paint sample book was one of them. So to answer the original question I believe we are looking at the color "Rosso Nearco". Here are a couple of pictures: . Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Oh, yeah! Winner, winner, chicken dinner! The very first 400i I ever drove when I was looking for my car was Ben Kao's Rosso Nearco 5 speed with a new Tubi exhaust system. It was a beautiful car but he was asking $10K too much for it at the time and I passed. He lived in the Wall Street area of Manhattan and it did sound glorious with that Tubi going through the tunnel between the West Side Highway and the lower part of FDR Drive! More recently, there was a Lusso with a color very close to Rosso Nearco at last weekend's Caffeine and Carburetors event in New Canaan, CT. It is a beautiful darker red, almost like a blood red, color. I call it effective product placement at a minimum and an attention grabber as more accurate! Well done!
Hi everybody Let me know if I am mistaking, but I think we are talking about #55301 "Funetti". At that time, Ferrari is already managing the paint of the cars and it uses Glasurit Paints. I will have a look at my paint samples (3 Glasurit Paint Samples known : 1981, 1983 and 1989) and let you know. My feeling is that car is repainted, probably for a non-original color. I have discovered that many 400 in the US are now red but they weren't red new. This red color is darker than the classic Rosso Corsa. But if the car was repainted, what red was choosen ? Dave, do you know when from your Pininfarina Paint Sample is ? Is the cover blue or black ? From what I know, the only Pininfarina paint sample available for the 400 era, has a black cover. It is from 1979 and the colors are : · blu scuro · avorio safari · nero tropicale · rosso cherry · rosso nearco · verde scuro · grPgio argento met. · grigio scuro met. · celeste met. · azzuro met. · blu ribot met. · verde pino met. · verde medio met. · gold poly met. · marrone met. · bruno acajou met. Regards paul
My guess is that he was recouping his 'Tubi' investment as that exhaust system was over $10K back in the day. I'm pretty sure Tubi doesn't make them for our cars anymore (hope I'm wrong ).
He was at least trying to recoup his Tubi cost but, after another year or two on the market with no success, he finally sold it for a market correct price as if the Tubi was just like any other exhaust system on the car.
Actually, I just checked my file and saw that asking price in 1998 was $42k when I passed on it. By the time Ben got serious about selling it, he sold it in 2000 for a reported $19,000!!! Based on what happened afterward, you can tell me if he got a good deal, I think that he was in the right place at the right time. The car had something like 65,000 miles on it and shortly after the new owner bought it he needed to repair the rear self leveling suspension and decided to do that with Monroe coil over air shocks. I don't know how much that cost him but then he advertised it for sale in 2002 with an asking price of $32,250 and sold it to another guy in the northern Midwest. I saw it again when the Midwestern owner drove it down to Indy for the Grand Prix and a bunch of us (all Ferrari Listers) got together for race viewing and a nice dinner on the Saturday night before the race.
Man, that's super nice. That dark red, black interior, 5-speed and a Tubi? whoa.... So the current owner is no longer on fchat?
Wow, what a drop in price! But @ 65Kmi., I'd be real curious if it already had its engine out service. My wife & I went to that Grand Prix too & knew about the dinner downtown but didn't quite make that one
