100,000 Miles ? No Problem !

Image Unavailable, Please Login This car may have been discussed here before. Anyway, yellow 355 wrapped in white.
Best part almost 100,00 miles. I remember when I got my first 355 in 2003. The “Experts” on this forum were always in an ego inflating, key board commando, pissing contest. Common knowledge at the time was the 355 wouldn’t never get to 30k miles and would cost $100,000 to maintain.

Wow, self inflicted misery that created fallacies and urban legends.

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This car may have been discussed here before but wow 100k miles. Impressive ! I love it !

 

I remember when I first got a 355 in 2003. The “Experts” on this forum said they doubted the 355 could make it past 30k miles, and would cost $100,000 to maintain.

Sadly, ego inflating, key board commando opinions turned into fallacies and urban legends. Completely self inflicted. Now every pimple faced kid with 1 post and an email address is asking about valve guides.

Truly LMAO !

 

There is a post out here of cars with high mileage, plenty of 348's and 355's with 75-100k miles.

 

$70,000 list price for a 94k mile car. 12 years ago I doubt anyone saw that coming.

 

I sold my Mondial T coupe with 104,000 miles on the odometer. Ran perfectly and was flawless. Drive them and they reward you!

 

Perfect! I'm not even half way home then.. plenty of miles left in her.

 

My first 355 I sold with 71,000 miles on it and it still ran strong. It had a binder full of receipts totalling somewhere around the original MSRP though.

 

Met a chap with a 355 couple weeks ago with 100k miles on his 355; with no intention of selling it.

Lots of Ferraris about with over 100k miles.

 

At the Arizona FCA Annual Meet 2 years ago (IIRC), there was a yellow 355 with 150K miles that was awarded a platino.

 

This one.

 

Yup, that's the one! Forgot it had been totalled and brought back, and that it's a one-owner car. Now that's an enthusiast (never mind his other two 100K-plus mile Ferraris).

 

I like the story but he is pretty negative about the car lol. I mean why keep putting oem headers on if they just burn through. If your going to drive it, replace it with something that will last. Driving with burnt through headers causes valve guide wear too. And the whole F1 pumps being 15k a piece is way overblown.

 

The guy from Hoovie's Garage on YouTube owns 30 some assorted cars including bunches of Lambos etc. His favorite of the bunch? The 348 with 100,000 miles. Nice to know you can achieve Toyota-like longevity with a Ferrari...now if we could just get Toyota-like parts prices...

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I thought that too, in the first minute of the video he doesn't exactly extoll the car's virtues, and why on earth would anyone keep replacing failed OEM headers with same? Still, it says something (he probably did say it but the video editor left it on the cutting room floor, the cost griping being more dramatic) that he went to the expense to bring the car back to that standard, and to rack up that kind of mileage is great to see.

 

That video, LMAO ! He says Ferraris are great cars but the 355 is not one of them. Ummm, it is truly, unquestionably the best sounding, drivable Ferrari of all time !

I should have known he was going to say something inflammatory when I saw that silly mustache of his