How old were you when you bought your first Ferrari?

50...1992 348ts....and should have 10 years ago...

Mike in Kuwait

 

26....1986 328 GTS.....waiting for it to arrive any day now.

 

Congrats mate!!

 

41 and thank god I waited till now when I look back at how I was with all my Porsche's (2 fast 2 furious) I would have killed myself. I think owning 13 or 14 different cars throughout my driving years gave me the time to be a better driver and a more responsible one as well. My 2 ct

 

I don't know how I missed this thread when it started. This is kind of interesting. Now that I think about it I was 37 when I bought my 308. Even though at times I feel like I'm 50 or better now, it's really only been 4 years. Four fun but expensive years!! If I had it to do over, I'd still do it but I'd spend a little more money up front on a different car and a LOT less down the road! CS Lewis put it pretty well....."“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”

 

Have you considered a Bugatti Veyron?

 

Sorry to change the subject but please, can you tell us how you became a cardiovascular surgeon by the age of 21?

 

Is this guy Dr Doogie Howser?

 

28
dino

ciao
alex.

 

WOW he's quick right to the point were you driving at the time you wrote this? lol Italy huh I'm soooooooooooo jealous.

 

31 - 308 GTSi. Car I always wanted after watching Magnum PI. Wish I had kept it.

 

6: when I purchased my hot wheels 308 with my Santa $$$. I still have it in the packaging

I have plans to be able to afford to buy a Ferrari by 35 (gives me 7 years). However, this one will not "stay in the packaging" when I buy it, I intend to drive it.

 

Bought my first Ferrari at 23 years of age, a nice 92 348ts

 

Ordered my first at 39......a 360 Spyder Manual. Felt great walking into FofDallas, and talking to Tony Nivotti (sp?), being told it was a two-year wait, and actually being fine with that, despite not taking delivery a while after I turned 40 (it wasn't exactly a set-in-stone goal). I had done as many here had done - namely, investing, reinvesting, analysing, and reinvesting patiently for years. I could wait patiently again; I was conditioned for that - then check back in a year or so to start spec'ing the car. Barely felt the deposit leave the account. I'd take delivery at 41, no problem. What a great day. They even had a GORGEOUS DB5 (one of my favorites) on the floor, and a yellow 330GTC, along with the touring Stradale sample (that wasn't even available yet). I drooled all over both before heading out the door.

Checked back ~a year later. "Tony is no longer here". Skippy, Chipper, Chadtastic, Whatever-the-new-manager's(?) name is picks up and tells me the dealership has changed hands, and Tony was ushered out the door for ominous "reasons I can't go into"......
With that out of the way, now confident that I wouldn't suffer whatever evils Tony may have committed, I tell Skippy that I'm calling to start the decision/specification process. I'm still happy - I only have a year to go. Skippy checks his log, for lack of a better term, and hits me with "You're still four years out"..........Apparently, Tony was being overly optomistic about the wait to customers.
Skippy had a solution - I could purchase one of the Used Spyders he had in stock, just a few miles on any of them, or I could buy a "brokered" spot on the list from one of their customers.
It hit me what had happened to my place.
The problem wasn't Tony. If I had to guess, I figure that Tony might have had a problem with the new way of doing business. I would have, too.

Instead, I used that deposit and the rest to, you guessed it, reinvest. Added other appreciating "indulgences" that I could rationalize. Other cars, even a couple of vintage pieces (no DB5 yet).

My first Ferrari, finally, at 42. A 512BBi. No stealership to deal with, no BS. One of the cars I'll regularly just look at for its lines.
After a few years, I figured it was time to forgive, and try a new Ferrari, and give Boardwalk another try. Oops.
Looks like I'm pretty much done with the self-sacred new dealers, as they've all followed the example of my scarring experience. You could say that it made me a little cynical.

That return visit cemented my views, and has apparently become the norm among most, if not all, FoNA dealers:
http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=138189


That cynicism on boil:
http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showpost.php?p=136796003&postcount=23
http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showpost.php?p=136817210&postcount=13

The fun will be be Ferrari #2, in a few months probably. This time, I won't even waste time with an "Official FoNA Dealer". Doubt that I ever will again, no matter what.

 

I'm still waiting with baited breath for a reply to this queation.

It's beyond my comprehension how '2fast2c' could be a cardiovascular surgeon at the age of 21, as stated in his profile! All I can figure is, he went into med school at the age of 10.

 

Most impressive is that at least he finished high school at 5 to 6 years of age!

 

Not that we don't believe you we are just a curious bunch tell me how does one perform a Transmyocardial Laser Revascularization or TMLR ?

 

What? You folks never watched "Doogie Howser"? Even PAP has seen that, and he's upside-down.

 

If I don't get an answer to my question soon, my brain is going to burst; the numbers are boggling. As someone said, he graduated high school at 5 or 6. Then pre-med, then med, then internship and then residency. The he picks his specialty of cardiovascular surgery and studies in that field, and then he's off and running at age 21!

It's not that we don't believe him, we just want to know how the hell he did it??

By the way, how did 'Doogie" do It?

 

at what age were you when you got your first ferrari and what was it

 

Did you look further down the page?

 

I was 52 and it is a 85 308qv
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no I didn't did someone else do this? If so I'm sorry for the repete,thanks tillman

 

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=132037

 

but this one has a poll so its better

unfortunately I cannot participate