I'm sorry for this poor car. It is like having a racing horse and lock him his all life in a box I bet the next owner won't use it either, afraid of losing value, instead of enjoying driving it. Sad.
That is a point of curiosity (different philosophies in the collector market)... Do classiche participants value originality or perfection? This is a diverging opinion across the collector car world, but I'm not familiar enough with Ferrari market to know what their general consensus is.
The Ferrari's show case much of dictionary for the vocabulary. Other cars featured: NSX TR Diablo F40 400 456 Maserati Biturbo 550 Eb110 288GTO SL gullwing 993 Mustang (first gen)
At a glance, it appears that particular car also has the ugly early Y-pipe. Must be a very early build car.
Your car has a normal looking Y-pipe. So does mine. This particular car an ugly looking Y-pipe. We discussed this before.
I never understood that perspective. A car isn't a living creature or aware of it's existence. I like that, for whatever reason, examples like this become available, and exist. To the contrary, would it not be more sad if every example was daily driven year round with 300K+ miles in need of a complete restoration or in a junkyard?
Exactly. They are just cars. But never, or infrequently being driven doesn't mean it doesn't need a lot of restoration and mechanical work. Even priceless works of art require maintenance. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Right. If not sorry for the car, be sorry for the owner then (and all the people who were not able to admire this car in the street) . Things are made to be used. 1300 miles in nearly 30 years = average is 43 miles a year! I guess this car was only driven to the shop for maintenance. What a waste! I have mine from less than a year and I nearly drove it as much as this one in 30 years. But to each his own.
I agree, but think there is some similarity with the animal world: one of my favorite wildlife people observed that in nature, "what is good for a species is not always good for an individual of the species". Back to cars, the individual of the species, in this case a low-mile, un-driven, original example, may not want to pull museum-piece duty (if it had such thoughts), but because a few cars are doing that, in upcoming years there will be a few time-capsule cars that restorers can refer to, which benefits the species as a whole. (Yes, I have too much time to think sometimes). Not sure how classiche sees it, but at the higher-level concours, originality is the priority (though you can paint a car a non-original, though "correct" color for the car, and still be classiche). However, I know you can remedy sticky buttons/surfaces without a deduction; I've yet to hear of a judge deducting points because "those buttons should be sticky", lol.
https://www.pcarmarket.com/auction/1995-ferrari-f355-berlinetta-2/?utm_source=Morning%20email%20blast&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email%20blast%20car
https://autokennel.com/featured_vehicle/1995-ferrari-f355-gts-gated-6-speed-engine-out-belt-service/ Price dropped. This one checks all the boxes IMO...
What if the owner is a billionaire and this came out of a 300 car collection? @JohnK I don't recall stating it would need zero work but it would be absolutely nothing compared to a complete restoration.
My point was that with only 1300 miles you don't know until you tear into it. Brakes, cooling system, engine internals. Injectors. Tires.... They all suffer from lack of use, age. Basically all 1300 miles might suggest is excellent cosmetics, if the dash leather didn't shrink. Doesn't really matter to me. No interest in the car regardless.
No, point is you can have cars like this emerge from a collection and the owner could be driving a different car every day of the year. Don't see the need to feel bad for the owner or cars but that's just my opinion. The 1300 mile car appears to have been regularly serviced so having to overhaul all major systems would be surprising to me. If it was just mothballed for 27 years sure there would be more potential surprises. (still wouldn't concern me if stored correctly)
Given the choice, I personally prefer to have a lower mile car and deal with some of the maintenance issues and use it sparingly. To me, it is more of an event when driven than if it was treated like a daily driver.
