Eric, the car in the video you posted is the 365 GTB/4 that took First place in its class in the 1972 24 Hours of Le Mans... Image Unavailable, Please Login Barry
Daytonas are actually very easy to maintain, even for an owner. I did all the maintenance on my Daytona and it was easy if you built the timing machine they showed how to build in the WSM. Only took about 5 minutes to pull a distributor and then you set up the 2 sets of points in each distributor. I still have my copy of Angelo Wallace's English translation of the WSM. All the basic maintenance was very straight forward. AC even worked ok if well maintained and Freon was only about $1/can back then.Still have my manifold set for that. Unisyn is in the garage somewhere, too, and the 6 Webers were easy to synch. Chain was easy to tension, too, once you knew the trick.
Anyone complaining of maintenance hasn’t kept on top of the upkeep for a mid-engine V12 for very long.
Daytonas did a great job of cooling the windshield. I found it you aim one vent just right, you get a little air coming over the steering dashboard.
Daytonas are analog cars. There might have been a transistor chip in the radio. This is what makes driving one so cool. It's you and a machine. It has its limitations, and you have yours. Understand both, and you will have a gas. Do something stupid? Maybe you'll get lucky.
Just got back to the auction to see the results. I figured it would at least clear $250K, but probably not make $300. I think it was fair for buyer and seller.
I used to own a GTC and loved it. But seeing how they trade for the same money, I'd go for a Daytona if I was going vintage, which I'm not.
That's a very interesting concept. What makes a Ferrari a better Ferrari? Or what would it take to make the 550 a better Ferrari?
When I think of Ferrari, I imagine bad-ass sport cars, e.g., a F40. Maybe if a 550 was a tad smaller and weighed less.
Like a 512 BB maybe? But then I won't fit . By that measure none of the post 512 BBi models are better Ferraris either.
Re: the Countach and BBs - exactly what I was thinking. I think each model has a point at which the market reaches its threshold for pain and the desire just can’t overcome that agony. I agree that it is driven by a number of factors, and both rarity and some form of irrational or sensible desire must be present. There are some rare cars that are rare for a reason and they aren’t going anywhere. How often do we see Yugos? Unless you believe the current online auction craze. Then everything is a rare gem and worthy of incurring a second mortgage.
E-Types are not rare. C2 Corvettes are not rare. Yet each has a subset of their production that command ever growing price points...
Well, exactly. Clearly 911s aren’t rare, but there’s a mythos among the faithful (and the simply curious) that was already warming up, and now it has flown to the moon, circled twice, and sent us all postcards…but while you can’t rationalize these things, I think there are lids.
Correct. Numbers while important are not the whole picture. Case in point there are only a few hundred 456M in the US but they are (in GTA guise) worth very little.
