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What is your Chassis #? These are the ones delivered - Equipe Endeavour would get chassis 850005 and 850018, John Coombs Racing Organisation would have chassis 850006 and 850007 while Peter Berry Racing Team would have chassis 850010 and 850013. However, there was one unique car that would go to an individual, and that is chassis 850008, supplied direct to Sir Gawaine Baillie
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You would be wrong, I'll never buy a Ferrari again. Ferrari shares over the product every day of the week, 50% GP on every unit thanks to all the wankers who get sucked in by Ferrari's "allocation" nonsense. FWIW, at the risk of bursting your bubble, IMO the 458 Speciale is massively overrated. The engine is one of the all time great naturally aspirated V8's, the rest is pretty much standard 458. I was the original owner of Alborz Fallah's bumblebee. My previous 430 Scuderia was a far more exciting driver's car. Photo credit- EPIC Images
That was partly it. Over a dozen Ferraris owned over 30+ years and I was told I didn't "qualify" for a 488 Pista without buying a 488 first. What a crock of ****, I'm not that stupid. Up the road to McLaren I went and have never looked back.
Not as surprised as me. I had bought 2 new Ferraris, a couple of new Maserati's and a few second hand Ferrari's and was lining up to order another new Ferrari. All from Zagame Melbourne. "You are not worthy". No worries, I won't be back.
I did 18,000 miles in this one back in the day. They were fine on the street, but race them in Targa or track them and they are really, really scary on the limit. Putting a big flat 12 lump on top of the transaxle and then hang 4 cylinders of it past the rear wheels..... not the smartest engineering solution. Massive roll oversteer on the limit, just park it if it rains. That being said, owners today don't do much with them besides cafe runs, so no change of underwear required.
Floyd Podgornik used to park his Testarossa outside his restaurant Florentino every weekend in the late 1980's. Perfectly doable if you don't give a toss about the car. It used to be serviced at John Allan's, I saw it regularly. Rough old girl. Car ended up with Molly Meldrum (not that Molly). No idea where it is today. One of the many, many interesting and often dodgy characters that inhabit the Ferrari world. Some great stories but this particular one ended tragically: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sydney-morning-herald-death-of-charl/9936247/?locale=en-AU
