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  1. omd78

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    #1 omd78, Sep 10, 2014
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    Chairman Luca di Montezemolo, Vice-Chairman Piero Ferrari and CEO Amedeo Felisa met with the world’s leading Ferrari collectors today at the Maranello headquarters. The group included Jon Shirley, owner of the 1954 Ferrari 375 MM Scaglietti Coupé, winner of the prestigious Best in Show title at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance which took place last August at the famous Carmel Golf Course in California. The classic car market continues to flourish as borne out by auction results which put nine Prancing Horse cars in the top 10 most expensive cars of all time (first place going to the Ferrari 250 GTO that sold for 28.5 million euro last August at Monterey, California). Today’s meeting thus laid the foundations for a major project involving our international collectors and launching in the coming months.

    Who is able to name them (apart from Felisa, Di Montezemolo and Piero Ferrari)?

    Gr. Martin
     
  2. Marcel Massini

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    #2 Marcel Massini, Sep 10, 2014
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    Left to right:
    1) Brandon Wang
    2) Christian Gläsel
    3) Amedeo Felisa
    4) Jon Shirley
    5) William E. "Chip" Connor
    6) Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
    7) Bruce Meyer
    8) Piero Ferrari
    9) Nick Mason

    Marcel Massini
     
  3. BigTex

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    #3 BigTex, Sep 10, 2014
    Thanks Marcel!

    I always enjoy Nick Mason's writing, whenever he puts pen to paper....

    I hope you had a good trip, to California!!
     
  4. Marcel Massini

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    #4 Marcel Massini, Sep 10, 2014
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    Here's another shot of the very same meeting in Maranello, which took place Monday 8th September 2014.
    Luca Cordero di Montezemolo with Bruce Meyer and Piero Ferrari.
    Look at the body language of Montezemolo, clearly NOT a happy man.

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  5. amenasce

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    #5 amenasce, Sep 10, 2014
    What is the project about? And who is #2?
     
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    #6 greyboxer, Sep 10, 2014
    Does anyone have an inkling if this is just the Rodeo Drive car ( Sergio ?) or something else ?
     
  7. omd78

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    #7 omd78, Sep 10, 2014
    Thanks very much Marcel!

    Gr. Martin
     
  8. Marcel Massini

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    #8 Marcel Massini, Sep 10, 2014
    Pleasure, as always.

    Marcel Massini
     
  9. Napolis

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    #9 Napolis, Sep 10, 2014
    This meeting was in the works for a while. One of the collectors even approached me but I told him that until there was a regime change I didn't think that was such a good idea.

    Funny World.
     
  10. Fast_ian

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    #10 Fast_ian, Sep 10, 2014
    :D

    So..... This whole mess is all your fault!

    :D

    Cheers,
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    #11 rdefabri, Sep 10, 2014
    Interesting.
     
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    #12 Napolis, Sep 10, 2014
    It always is.

    Perhaps I can cut my Sicilian Bodyguards down to 2 or 3 when I visit the factory...
     
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    #13 amenasce, Sep 10, 2014
    Is that project the Sergio? Or the rumored LaFerrari spider (Which i hope is not true..).
     
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    #14 taunus, Sep 10, 2014
    Many GTO's in that picture...
     
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    #15 Jacob Potts, Sep 10, 2014
    This might strike you as funny but I am trying to be serious.

    The Sultan of Brunei was not there?
     
  16. Traveller

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    #16 Traveller, Sep 10, 2014
    Apparently a new very limited edition run of some 10 cars is what I heard.
     
  17. Fast_ian

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    #17 Fast_ian, Sep 10, 2014
    :D

    Hopefully...... ;)

    There's many here *far* more qualified than me, but I believe that's the (presumably!) pseudonym under which he operates in this very rarefied arena.... But that's not much more than a WAG. Hopefully someone will confirm/deny soon.

    Cheers,
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  18. Glassman

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    #18 Glassman, Sep 10, 2014
    Who is "the" Sultan of Brunei?
     
  19. Marcel Massini

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    #19 Marcel Massini, Sep 10, 2014
    #2 is German collector Christian Gläsel.

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  20. moretti

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    #20 moretti, Sep 10, 2014
    you are joking right ?
     
  21. Glassman

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    #21 Glassman, Sep 11, 2014
    Not at all. There have been over 30 "Sultans Of Brunei".........so who is the collector who would have been invited to this gathering? The most recent Sultan? Or maybe the one who started the car collection who is probably dead. I personally don't know....hence the question.
     
  22. Ferrari 360 CS

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    #22 Ferrari 360 CS, Sep 11, 2014
    I may have heard a similar thing. What chances there is more focus on very limited run cars and very few one of one type cars made.
     
  23. Ney

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    #23 Ney, Sep 11, 2014
    I am the Sultan.......

    The Sultan of Swing!

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  24. Giovanni_P

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    #24 Giovanni_P, Sep 11, 2014
    A number of years ago at Pebble Beach, MC Jay Leno pulled Bruce Meyer's name out of a box to win a raffle prize- a brand new Infiniti G35. Leno commented "well, I bet that's the first Japanese car to ever find its way into Bruce's garage"!
     
  25. Traveller

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    #25 Traveller, Sep 11, 2014
    With the shift in power and direction it would appear under new stewardship that limited edition cars are possibly no longer.

    Ferrari to Boost Production to Keep Pace With Super Rich - Bloomberg
     
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