Anyone know what ferrari called this color on the 355?

I agree with the seller that called Barchetta Red or in Italian Rosso Barchetta

 

It's called rosso barchetta.

 

Welcome to FerrariChat mate.

That is a beautiful colour.

 

That colour can look various colours depending on the light source. Sometimes it looks brighter sometimes darker. Its the true Ferrari red, well actually its an Alfa Romeo colour from the 1940?? And used on the first racing Alfa/Ferraris.
They used the colour until 1997 IIRC, but could still be special ordered. On the spider version the colour was only used for one year from 1995-6 again IIRC. Again unless specially ordered. So the rarest version is indeed a spider version. Although they did paint one or two special edition 1999 F355 Fiorano spiders, but i don't know if they were special ordered or a factory decision.

 

bravo Roberto
Italiano Rosso Barchetta

If i bought a 355 it would be in that colore

 

Yeah, that's Rosso Barchetta alright.

If it's that '98 Berlinetta from Gary Bobileff, at least it's coming from a shop with very good reputation.

Good luck getting the car. It looks sharp.

Here is another picture of Rosso Barchetta (not the same car but just for showing color).
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Grazie Paolo !

 

If anybody is interested ive got a friend who is selling a low mile 355B in perfect condition in Rosso Barchetta. Looks just like the one in the pic above. Car is located in Southern Cal

 

The one in that second pic is MY '98 355F1, pic taken at Cars & Coffee in Irvine. Indeed, this is Rosso Barchetta, and there are seriously few of these later ('98 and '99) cars around in this color. Mine has a crema interior. There is a near-twin of my car which occasionally makes an appearance at C & C, but with a tan interior and drilled discs (though not larger brakes, just drilled). Both are '98 F1 cars. Last I saw my car's twin, it still had stock headers and cats, so if this is the one at Bobileff's, this may need to be addressed. Usually I tell people who are looking for a 355 to find a sorted one in whatever color is acceptable to them. However, if you are truly set on finding a 355F1 in this particular color, you may have to buy what you can find and sort out any items like the manifolds, cats, etc. Still wouldn't buy anything with bad leakdown or compression numbers, so PPI still a must.

As to the color, I have had my car nearly 3 years now, and just love it! The darker red still says "Ferrari", but in a much more subtle way than the usual Rosso Corsa. If you plan on driving the car a lot (and you should!) then you will definitely appreciate the more understated red. You Rosso Corsa drivers out there know what I'm talking about. As was stated in an earlier post, this red looks darker when not in direct sunlight, and VERY dark at night. This may account for what appears to be variations in the color.

Good luck with the pursuit of your dream car... it's out there. Buy it and drive it!

John