Just on the train to collect a 1990 ts. Bought this car for my 40th birthday trip from the UK down to the south of France. Picking th car up today, will put a few miles on for shakedown then head across the channel Sunday morning . No particular route but will take a few alps passes in on the way down to Monaco. Thought I had better say hi as I will probably need your collective knowledge if something breaks Really looking forward to it. Will be nice to have a manual for the trip. I rember doing my paper round and one house had a yellow tb and I was in love with it. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Anyway looking forward to my 90’s road trip
Welcome and well done. I’m sure they will look after you at the Ferrari centre. Which one did you go for, as I think they had a couple. Lots of help here and on scuderia forum. Looking forward to posts of your trip.
it was the 59K 1990 one so far very surprised at the car, keeps up with modern traffic easily although a VW polo is like 7 times the size of it when driving next to one central locking/ any locking isn't working so need to get that fixed
Congratulations, that is gorgeous. And, you're right, this place has a wealth of knowledge and we will be there to assist if/when needed.
Another car from The Ferrari Centre in Kent! Funny how the pics look the same. Can tell their ads by the surroundings. Love the crema.
wow just been looking through the comprehensive receipts for it. no wonder it looks like a new car.. it practically is some money been spent on it over the years which is nice to know. sorted the central locking. was an easy fix first time in the rain home tonight lets see how these roofs leak
On my phone posting this so sorry for typos So well in the the trip now 800miles or so done. Plus a 300 odd so on shake down before leaving. What can I say perfect car for the journey. A well executed heel and toe is a glorious thing. Noise oh the noise. I haven’t any cats and it goes in to a tubi... deafening in a tunnel. Can wait for the alpine passes. It’s hard work parking, not sweated like that in a long time. Arms hit this morning Low points on the car. ITS SO LOW I am scraping the front even on the motorway and at speed it’s not a nice thing. I have damaged the right side front arch from being on lock and hitting a bump at speed It’s an easy fix but just annoying. Image Unavailable, Please Login So so far London to epernay day one Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login At my favorite champagne village bouzy Image Unavailable, Please Login The girlfriends fist drive Image Unavailable, Please Login Nancy’s town center Image Unavailable, Please Login Hotel for the night opposite the Lalique museum Image Unavailable, Please Login Heading now down to thun in Switzerland for the night and then some passes the following day. Not sure they will be that enjoyable in this car and as it’s heavy and the hairpins will be hard work
Sounds like a great run. The front shouldn’t be bottoming out though; especially at speed on the motorway. (At least I don’t think so; standing by to be corrected!) From the images the front could be a bit low; a lot of people tinker with the setups and go a nose down setup, which yours looks to have. If you get a chance measure the distance between tyre and arch, if you don’t have a tape measure use something else ie finger widths (no rude jokes). Or if tape measure, from ground to bottom of car where the lower wishbones attach. I can compare to mine which is stock and set up/measured last winter and let you know. Keep the pics coming!
Remembered...floor chassis heights are in the manual, page F3, 130-134mm front and 125 -129 rear. (That's with full tank and two people in the car). From the pictures yours looks to have a much greater clearance at the rear than the front; and to the casual eye they should be about evens.
That's my old 348 - "Fi"! - I'd recognise her anywhere! (The electric aerial at the base of the buttress does help!) Check the 2nd service book and you'll find I made a note about it being a follow-on book. I owned her from April 2014 to February 2017 - And loved every minute of it! (Well, every minute apart from all those spent sorting out the sticky plastic interior! - What an absolute ball-ache of a job that was - I must have used 10 cans of solvent and @ 2000 cotton buds sorting out the air vents! ) Sadly, I picked up an illness that put me off work for 3 months and so had to sell her as the cost of the household and car bills started to mount up (I was spending £220 per month just to park her in a secure lock up with 24/7 access 365 days of the year! ) The column switches should last a good 20 years - They were the very last brand new set in the country when I bought them (Cost me £1100 for the switches alone! - She wouldn't have got through the MOT without them though, and I wasn't prepared to take a chance on a used set ) The damage to the front arches from the tyres rubbing when turning up a slope somewhere, was the work of the owner after me, and before you (And I was pi$$ed off when I saw the damage, after all the care I took with her! ) The seats had just been completely refurbished before I bought her and were indeed like brand new, and before I picked her up, I had The Ferrari Centre fit uprated Hill Engineering belt tensioners, and an uprated Hill Engineering water pump (Dave at The Ferrari Centre can confirm all of that ) It looks like she's ended up in good hands, and is leading an exciting new life! She's a great car - not perfect, but that just made her more usable as far as I was concerned, and I do miss her to this day (I genuinely loved that car, and cried when I had to leave her at The Ferrari Centre to sell her on! ) I hope she makes you as happy as she made me - Look after her! (I will always think of her as being MY Ferrari - Whoever owns her )
Very Funny. Look where is was last Wednesday and Thursday. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
that's fantastic. thanks for getting in touch. as for the dash thanks for sorting. you could have done the steering column as well. all week I would get out of the car and find a black mark on my left knee. wasn't until yesterday on the tunnel home I figured it out where it was coming from. looks like my next job. I will look after it, oh and drive it hard! I now have muscles where I didn't know you could have them trying to execute a 3 point turn. I have got/driven cars without power steering before and this is by far the heaviest seems a lot for storage. I have many contacts in that field so let me know if you need storage again I can probably help. arches on both sides are bad and so is the cracking in the bumper. hitting the expansion joints on bridges is bad at speed circa 90mph I am surprised the bumper wasn't ripped clean off I am going to get that sorted in the next few weeks. as well as sorting the ride height. I think I am going to refresh the suspension while I am there. refurb dampers, new springs and rubbers all round
Sorry about the steering column - It was on my list of jobs to do! (Along with vents on top of the dashboard) The first thing I had to do was the internal door release handles - By the time I got her home after buying her, my trousers were coated in that black crap! The storage I had for her was great - Only a mile away from my home, 24/7 access 365/366 days of the year, security fenced/gated with coded entry, CCTV, and twin heavy duty padlocks on her garage door. That meant I could just stroll down and take her out whenever I wanted to, and return when I felt like it, any time of the day. Most other storage places seem to be at least 10 miles away, need a weeks notice to make the car available, and close @9pm, so if you're not back in time, you're locked out - I like to just come and go as I please. The only downside to the storage was that it was £220 per month - So £2640 per year just to park her (If I owned her for 10 years, that would obviously be £26,400 in parking alone! ) I know exactly what you mean about parking speed manoeuvres - It is a bit of a fight with her, but my God, once you get her rolling, the steering is just superb! - So direct and responsive, just like a big go-cart! As I say, I loved that car! I think your first Ferrari is like your first proper girlfriend: Something special that you will never forget, and "Fi" was my first (She took my Ferrari virginity! ) I will confess though that the absolute love of my Ferrari life is the 308/328 GTS, and now I'm trying to work out how I can make that dream come true.
