Could buy a 250 Boano - Argentina period race history

I once passed up a 246 Dino, because it had a dent.......it was $60K.

So, I spent $30K on my 308GTB.

I passed on a nice black 308GT4 at $20K.
That was not quite as bad, but still......

 

It's called a Boano.

 

Missed the Daytona Spyder for $21,000 in Fly Yellow, and got the more user friendly Dino 246 for a cheaper price , brand new, $19,000. So, you never know. My wristwatches cost more than both of them put together back then.

 

You see- that is why its never good to sell no matter how good a price you get at the time.
Ten, twenty years later you always look like a fool. Sometimes you need to sell for a good reason but mostly people sell because they want something else and we live in a society where we want change, not only in things we own but also in people we are with.
We live in a society which is fast moving, fast paced and thus hanging on to things for along time become only the very view of us will actually do.

I hope I am one of them

 

Decisions made are good and sound at the time, and by and large are justifiable and reasonable. However, as the old saying goes, hindsight is a wonderful thing.

 

250 Ellena at 40K......original running and driving, stupid stupid stupid

 

PF250 for $9500, Fiat 8V Zagato for $5500.......
Oh well.

 

I remember a No. 1 condition Maserati 3500 GT for $3500. Six cylinders were not enough for the All-American Boy so got a '66 big block Corvette instead -- for $1700!

 

...in 1986 I passed on a Aston DB4, $10k, in San Francisco, (my back yard) the light was reflecting just through the apartment building garage area showing a large amount of oil under the car....and then I bought a Brand new Ford Mustang 5.0 GT instead.

ONE saving grace? I raced the Ford in SCCA, SSGT class which was a good time (Oversteer heaven).

The ONE that got away.

 

....did I just cop to that?

Rereading my OWN post...I cringe !

 

Where's Uro?

 

224 postings in "is bubble due to burst" thread says nothing has changed. People are more concerned about the market than what they get for the money and what they can afford. Nobody wants to look like a fool that paid too much; that's why they passed on Dinos at 30k and 250GTs at 50k - the seller was asking too much...

 

Very true and not a surprise. Buying a Ferrari for most people is likely to be the largest expenditure they make after their house. Your house is you home and not an investment in my book. Likewise, the Ferrari is my hobby and not my pension. However, on both counts it is always gratifying to know you have not overpaid and evidence to my wife that it is not an expensive plaything.

 

In the summer of 1967, my father was about $550 shy of the $6,400 asking price for a 250 California. The trauma of having asked his parents for a loan to cover some of the $2300 he spent buying his 500 Mondial 7 years earlier was still fresh in his mind (they thought he was insane for paying 2/3 a year's salary on a broken race car), so he passed on the Cal . . .

 

My first in the metal Ferrari view was of a '56 Boano. Mid 1965, me 15 going on 16 with drivers license upcoming, car for sale on used sports car lot here in Dallas, price $2995. Had I a crystal ball then I would have twisted my mom's arm very hard.

Much the same for me in '01 and '02.

 

......shame in you...:

 

My father passed up a 250 GT SWB for $4,000 iirc back in the mid 1960s because it needed a new head and who knew how easy that would have been to source from Italy back then. Plus he had just bought a Corvette so what did he need another sports car for. Oh well.

 

How much are Boanos going for? Ellenas?

 

I've seen $400 - $600k