convertable testarossa

Ayone know what this would do to the strength of the car? I think it loks cool.http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=6212&item=2486508900&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

 

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I think it looks great. Offer them 45 and I bet they take it. Just don't ever try to sell it.

Not sure about the strength of the car. Find out who converted it.

 

I'd bet it was a Stramann conversion - they were the usual converters of TR's and other one-offs. They are supposedly excellent at doing this and I doubt this seller would take $45k.

Fchatter G-force had a Stramann TR conv't, he said the top was great and they had reinforced the frame well. I'd look him up in the Lamborghini forum with more ownership questions.

One thing is certain: this car is HOT HOT HOT!

 

Then there's this one...

 

These cars look amazing, my altime favorite.

 

The torsional rigidity is going to be hampered by chopping off the top, no doubt about it, it's just a matter of HOW MUCH body flex you are going to get vs. stock.

 

Heres my fave, I was looking for 1, but now I just bought the F40 so its so of hard to go out & buy Another Ferrari when I havent even finished my F40 deal yet

 

I agree that is beautiful, I would love one. I also think the $45k is very optomistic.

 

The car in ebay is NOT a Straman. The conversion actually (IMHO) looks sloppy. Straman did a much better job.

 

Have you ever seen a convertible F40?

 

Headrests and roll bars ala 360 spider would make the conversion look much better. At least they put a decent design rag top on it.

Anybody with half a brain would know to reinforce the pan and firewall when the top is cut off. To do it right would add a lot of weight to the car but it can be done. The trick is to find the right guy with the right half of brain.

 

Found that chopped F40: http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?p=134349621#post134349621

 

https://www.dupontregistry.com/autos/listing/1993/ferrari/512--tr/343578

 

Wow.
$2.7-3.5MM estimate?

Gonna see a bunch of chopped 512s at that #.

 

https://rmsothebys.com/auctions/lf23/lots/r0018-1993-ferrari-512-tr-spider/

cheese graters + spiders > LP400
$acrilege I tell you

 

I hope not. I have driven them. Ruins the car. Turns to rubber. Too flexible to start with. Its a real bad idea

Why didn't the photographer get off his knees and take some good pictures. Down low is a terrible perspective for that car. Especially a convertible. The shape with the top chopped is kind of cool but its only seen from a normal human perspective. What hes doing is just hiding it.

 

https://exclusivecarregistry.com/details/pininfarina/ferrari-512-tr-spider/56814

 

Weren’t these completely done by PF with no Ferrari involvement ? The Sothebys catalog seems to ambiguously refer to PF and F as who made them. I thought the Agnelli car was the only one to have conceptually originated in Maranello. I have heard springy, soft, and outright dangerous referring to any (prob not all though) of the TR conversions.

 

Well...

• One of three Ferrari 512 TR Spiders built by Ferrari in 1993
• The only 512 TR Spider to leave the factory with the stunning Blu Cobalto exterior and Blu Scuro Connolly leather interior
• One owner from new, with just 570 kilometres on the odometer
• Powered by its matching-numbers 4.9-litre flat-12 engine
• Exhibited at the 50th Anniversary of Ferrari in 1997

 

The blue car technique of chop and redesign the lid really resembles the silver 512 that Enzo gifted to agnelli..
But ...It is my opinion that Straman did a better aesthetic job!

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And it will double in 6 months. Wait, it already did. And it's being flipped already.

In any case, it was mostly a joke re: the "TR value" thread comments dumping on its styling.

 

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Agreed, although apparently the Agnelli one had a lower windshield and side windows, so not as stock.

 

The yellow one above is done by Pavesi: