355 In Verde Silverstone opinions

Hi guys

having a battle with myself over colour I want something different from Red or Yellow -no offence to either colour btw.

would love Blue but scarce and mainly F1 and I want manual

have looked at 'Verde Silverstone' and i am quite taken by it

anyone have a view ?

thanks in adavnce

 

I think silver looks great on a F355.

 

Almost bought a Verde Silverstone/tan car. Very nice looking. Color changes with sun. Looks almost blue in shade, sparkles green in sun. I passed on the car due to condition and ended up with my other first choice, a 95 Swaters Blu/tan. Probably would have gone for the Vedre if the car was in better condition. Turned out the car never sold last year and went off eBay for $36k this year. Price definitely reflected quality. Ferrari 355 Spider | eBay

 

You need please only yourself. Buy what you like.

 

I have titanium, at times looks slightly blue in the sun. Quite an attention getter, at least in Vancouver.

 

Pretty sure this is green

 

I am again reminded of that chasing classic cars episode where they restored adaytona spider from Rossa Corsa back to its original verde something with beige interior. Stunning.

 

No idea of the accuracy of these verde descriptions Just collected them off of google.

Heres a link to one for sale supposedly as well:

http://cars.smartcarguide.com/listing/46140824/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ianjonesphotography/2544018602/in/gallery-rimoli-72157623537208607/

The left one said verde silverstone metallic

The right one said verde scuro metallizato.

The link said verde mugello.
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Are you looking for a manual Spider, a GTB or GTS?

 

I'm a blue, not a green guy, but I've loved all the greens I've seen. Generally with the "std" beige interior.

 

Tan interior yes! Much cooler than black. Buy it. Silver is a great color for these cars lines. Even better for the 355. Yeah it's Mercedes' color but if you don't want Ferrari Red or Yellow. do silver.

 

If you can't wait for Blue! ;>)

 

I have a Blu TDF with light grey interior (almost white) 99 B. 6spd.

LOVE the blue, and get tons of compliments whenever on the streets, more that my friends red one

TDF all the way!

 

Dear God, $36k?! Besides it being not the most desirable color, I don't see much wrong with it, and it even had $10k done in recent maintenance.

Every time I read this forum it seems my car devalues $10k, getting ridiculous.

 

I dig green cars, unfortunately, they don't sell well in the secondary market. I applaud guys like JK who ordered his Enzo black with green interior and his LaF in kermit green (whatever it might be called).

 

When I looked at it last year I felt the owner was not fourth coming with pictures etc. It was like pulling teeth to get him to provide details. Just never got a good feeling about the car. For example, I specifically asked for pics of all 4 wheels. He sent me one, cropped so that 1/3 of the edges of the rims could not be seem. Who knows? Interior needed a lot of work. Maybe he was too busy or just didn't know how to present the car to a serious buyer, or just didn't care. As I recall, the recent ($10k) major was at least 5 years old when I looked at it. The owner told me that the only thing he had done was an oil change. He was also the 7th owner. If I remember correctly he was asking $52k for the car. After I reviewed all the records and figured out what it needed the most I would have offered was in the area of $39k. I would have offered that but I didn't want to buy a car and put it in the shop all summer and then the car I bought not showed up in ready to drive condition. The car was also for sale from the previous owner a year earlier (2012) out of Virginia, priced to sell. What records there were, were from Competizione & Sports Cars. The car seemed to eat batteries as well. Seemed every time it was in the shop a new battery was fitted. No indication of valve guides having been done so that was also a potential additional cost. I actually have a video of the owners son driving the car. Owner said he had to sell it because he was getting a Tesla. A year later he still has the car and sells it on ebay for $36k.

It looked like at one time the car was well taken care of but then it started getting passed around by guys who wanted a Ferrari for the summer. $36k seems fair, and obviously the seller wanted out. The car easily could have required $24k of work.