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.
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!
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.......... Image Unavailable, Please Login
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. Image Unavailable, Please Login
This is Mr. Lais of Stuttgart, Germany, official Ferrari dealer since many years (Lais-Power). Marcel Massini
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)...
and here are some pics of s/n 54799 taken at a Ferrari meeting at Lais Power in 2004. If I remember right, it was the presentation of the 612 Scaglietti. Martin Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
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
Hardly, he has quite the collection of serious cars. I do agree that taste doesnt come with money....
Jacques Swater's 288 GTO at Zandvoort June 15th 1985, barely 2 weeks old, Belgian-registered "338.X.3" Copyright Marcel Massini. Image Unavailable, Please Login
And 23 years later. Note blank plate still affixed to center console (who needs a radio?), and Megaphone pipes... Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
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!
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.
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.
Here is "A 11 GTO". Now what chassis number is this car? It was at Le Mans this year, not driven by Jagger... Image Unavailable, Please Login
