F355 Red/Tan 6Speed Berlinetta or GTS (offer cash)

I'm looking for a Red/Tan F355 6Speed (manual) Berlinetta or GTS. I'm looking for the best car I can find (good paint and interior) with good service history and I can pay in cash.

 

Let's also not forget the Bitcoin

 

Thank you for your response Vito, I sent you my cell phone in a private message, but currently I'm in AET (Automotive Enviro Testing - Cold Weather Test Facility and Proving Grounds) doing testing in a bunch of vehicles and there not very good signal out here.

 

Btw it seems that Vito has a great car in his stable but I just couldn't justify spending the requested amount for a car w/o major, stickies and with possible (near future) need for valve guides and headers.

So I'm still looking guys, let me know if you have something available.


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Thank you Jimmy!
I did PPI and drove this car but after spending $1400 in tickets, hotels PPI etc I felt it wasn't worth to buy it.
It wasn't extremely clean and needed some TLC along with some MAJOR stuff like the valve guides. When you factor everything in, you could get a better (lower millage and more taken care off) car for less money.
The problem is that cars with these specs don't come by as often, so I'll probably need to patiently wait looking at ads for long time.


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Thank you, I just replied!

 

You are right, I agree with you Steve!

 

Surprisingly you can carry $50-60K in your pockets without to much effort...not talking about a multimillion supercar here, just a F355.

 

I just saw you message and I'm almost to pull the trigger on another supercar (I came here to close the thread), I'll give you a call tomorrow to discuss!

 

They same way they know they are the best drivers and they have the most beautiful wife or girlfriend! 😛😛😛
They obviously don't!

That said it's good enough for me if at least the owner seems to think that they have the best car in the US because even if they don't chances are that it won't be the worst - and believe me I have wasted a lot of money and time looking at bad cars!


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Well if that's the case you should be happy to know that there will be less competition since I actually decided to get a Lamborghini Gallardo.

Don't get me wrong, I always had and will have a soft spot for a F355 Berlinettas but there are getting hard to find in the US. Berlinetta are the ones produced in highest numbers but for some reason we didn't get that many in the US. So far most cars I found were either problematic or their owners were expecting extremely high dollar value.

On ebay most F355 berlinettas sell between $40-50K, some super clean ones are asking for $59K and don't even meet that.
1998 Ferrari 355 Berlinetta 6SPD | eBay

I like the F355 so I was even willing to spend 10% more and go all the way to $65K (which I think is too much). Surprisingly most owners here will ask for $80K for cars that need headers, stickies, have delayed major services or for cars with not extremely low miles (40K miles or so). I think $80K or 100K will be a good price in the next 10 years for the cars with low miles but I'm not willing to spend so much in the F355 right now.

Instead I decided to spend more than $90K and get a 2004 Audi - oh I'm sorry I meant Lamborghini Gallardo. Hopefully the Gallardo will be less prone to failures and I'll also be able to race it (which was my plan with the F355 too). You see the other problem is that for some reason the F355s have valve issues, I know it supposed to be only at the very early models but the car that I spent $1500 to go see in texas was a 97 and still had valve issues. That makes me believe that there is something inherited in the design of the engine or the head or the cooling (let's not forget it was the first engine breaking the 100hp/lit) which makes these cars prone to valve and header issues.

Taking the Gallardo for PPI tomorrow, fingers crossed it will pass the PPI - I hate to re-live the Texas story...