Wow, good questions. An embarrassment of riches Karim. I think I favour option four, leaving the "as-is" on. I've recently purchased a complete oem system at the RM auction (fully inspected by those wonderful chaps at DK) and will clean it up leaving the tubi system which the dealer I bought the F50 put on before the car was listed. I bought it a few months later. I later learned the entire oem system had disappeared before just before listing and after it had been given its Red Book. Somewhat spookily the beautiful complete oem system I've just purchased came in a Maserati parts large wooden create with the a dealer sticker on the side. You can guess the name of the service dealer who had the Maserati box ) I love that box. All the best and keep up the great work.
Congratulation on your purchase of the RM exhaust as well as the main object, the F50! Thanks for your view, and I, probably, will follow it.
The best way way to check how a car was used is by looking underneath. Below are some pictures (taken at DK Engineering this week) which show the original condition of the car from underneath (no repaint or re-coating of any surface) Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Here are few more pictures: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Camlet1, Here is the re-coated silencer on the car as well as the untreated original one on the bench. Hard choice… Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
F50’s at Cavallino Classic Concorso d’Eleganza 2023. Left to right: 103921, 103114 & 104277. Image Unavailable, Please Login Picture: https://cavallino.com
Obiang's yellow car sitting in Malibu. It was rarely seen but I managed to catch it one day. Image Unavailable, Please Login
#103495 (serial #030) https://www.broadarrowauctions.com/vehicles/jc23_190/1995-ferrari-f50 Image Unavailable, Please Login
Is it incorrect to refer to the XXX/349 as the serial number? https://rmsothebys.com/en/home/private-sales/r5265-1996-ferrari-f50/1201435
I consider the serial number the same as the chassis number. The other one as the actual build number. But that's just me. Marcel Massini
Love the original version but that's a personal thing I know. Great shots Karim thank you. The hand written N number under the tank I think, it's significant but I don't know the back story. Mine is N 306.
Andrew, this F50's estimate at $4,000,000 - $4,500,000 is a big ask for an F50 with approximately 11,500 kilometers / 7,145 miles in a cooling market for these where the last 6 months or so has seen a number of USA F50s and Eu F50s sit on the market unsold. In a more active market last year, USA F50 104220 with just 6,193 miles sold for $4,625,000, with this in mind I expect 103495 with more miles in a cooling market to be at the low end of the estimate or just below that. To underscore this, 103501 with just 1,342 kilometers / 834 miles sold for $5,065,000 this March bearing in mind that low mileage is the main driver amongst the investors who are buying these cars. With low mileage in mind, I'd say the best opportunity upcoming is the 2-owner 104277 with approximately 5,610 kilometers / 3,485 miles which comes available here https://carhuna.com/auctions/vehicle/preview/wqDYAPzempHLZjWmQ with a guide price estimate of $4.75m to $5m, and again I expect the conservative end of that range, a colleague who saw it at the Cavallino Classic had nice things to say. Image Unavailable, Please Login
