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Discussion in '288GTO/F40/F50/Enzo/LaFerrari/F80' started by kizdan, May 18, 2007.

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  1. dan360

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  2. joe sackey

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    Dan:

    You are a most astute observer. But I too noticed the gentleman with the pink pants.

    You will however note that he is not a GTO driver.

    Thankfully so, because it is my carefully considered opinion that GTO drivers have generally acquired impeccable taste.
     
  3. hhh

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    Great car, but when I raced it we never changed anything on the car so in fact it was better in the wet than in the dry.....
    Remember sliding it around Colmar in long slides!
    It was a car I really used (that's why it had the flies splattered all over the nose)
    The F40 had the LM brake-ducts, slicks, modified exhaust and different shocks and springs to make it work better but still keep it drivable for the road.

    Once tried three open pipes on the F40 on the road........nearly got arrested, but did I like it!
     
  4. hhh

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    Haha, good one, but when we talk about taste and certain cars, I've got one here (although the car is a Veyron).
    I took the pic at a Bugatti meeting at Monterey in 2003 and the guy with the snakeskin leather boots said he was going to get the first customer car for the US.
    Must have been hard changing over from his white 3-speed automatic Cadillac convertible which he could drive wearing his boots..........
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  5. joe sackey

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    #2555 joe sackey, Nov 25, 2008
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    LOL, classic!

    This is a repost but this man has been known to wear some flashy pants... although not the day he collected his GTO.
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  6. Marcel Massini

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    Mick and Dunn collecting 58149.
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  7. Marcel Massini

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    This is Mr. Lais of Stuttgart, Germany, official Ferrari dealer since many years (Lais-Power).
    Marcel Massini
     
  8. joe sackey

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    I wonder if he still has it....
     
  9. gpk

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    The pink pants? LOL
     
  10. joe sackey

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    Dan I meant to tell you that I believe it was your GTO that was tested in Italy by the late Stan Nowak & Ralph Lauren and featured in Cavallino number 26 (April 1985)...
     
  11. Martin D

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  12. Martin D

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    There should be 5 GTOs in the area of Stuttgart now. The 3 I posted above + the one Ferrari-Sammler posted (post 2169) + another one which a friend of mine spotted a couple of weeks ago (unfortunately no pics).
    Does anybody know how many GTOs are currently in Germany?

    Martin
     
  13. ferraripanoz

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    Hardly, he has quite the collection of serious cars. I do agree that taste doesn’t come with money....
     
  14. joe sackey

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    Thanks for posting Martin...
     
  15. joe sackey

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    #2565 joe sackey, Nov 27, 2008
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    Jacques Swater's 288 GTO at Zandvoort June 15th 1985, barely 2 weeks old, Belgian-registered "338.X.3"

    Copyright Marcel Massini.
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  17. Bradley

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    If you want to wear pink pants, I won't try to stop you. If you must be tasteless, do it to yourself; just don't "modify" the car!
     
  18. olivier

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    This car is in UK with "A11 GTO" plates. Don't know who the current owner is.

    Olivier
     
  19. hnko

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    I will wear any color of pant to drive a 288 gto :)
     
  20. joe sackey

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    Interesting.

    I have it down as originally EE.190.AK, then "B 11 GTO"...
     
  21. CrazyOne

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    Friend of mine told me that Jim Lyons from the Sports Car Company, a reputable dealer in California, predicted that 288GTO prices will be in the low $200K range within the next twelve to eighteen months.
     
  22. Marcel Massini

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    Disagree. The plate is "B 11 GTO" not "A 11 GTO". Must be a typo.
    Marcel Massini
     
  23. thepinkumbrella

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    The car is listed in the 1998 UK FOC Owners register as A11 GTO.
    Do we have pictures?

    Paul
     
  24. joe sackey

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    Thats what I thought.

    The only pic I have ever seen is the one posted here.

    Although I do believe I have seen the car in person. In early 1986 in London I saw Mick Jagger driving this car at night heading up Sloane street in Knightsbridge with a lady passenger. It was the second GTO I saw in person.
     
  25. joe sackey

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