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Testarossa, 512 TR, F512 M Registry

Discussion in 'Boxers/TR/M' started by bob348, Mar 6, 2007.

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  1. RacerX_GTO

    RacerX_GTO F1 World Champ Silver Subscribed

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    woah? Did they need to scrap the paint off the tube frame VIN like that????
     
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    I imported mine from Japan and it is very simple , PM me.
     
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  3. F360-1386

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    Before I pulled the trigger ,I asked the Japanese Dealer and the dealer here they said it is a normal practice for some dealers to scrap the paint to examine the VIN clearly
     
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    PM sent !
     
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  5. zvdxb

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    Hi F360 ! Did you receive my PM ?

    Rgds
     
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  6. F360-1386

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    Checking it.
     
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    Just sent you email for instructions to import your car. Good luck .
     
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  8. zvdxb

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    Got it thks !
     
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    It's black/crema
     
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    Beautiful Blk TR
     
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    Thank you!
     
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  14. F360-1386

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    It looks so cool , never seen a TR Spider.
     
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  16. evandaalen

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    The yellow Testarossa Spider was converted by Lorenz & Rankl, a German conversion company.
     
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  17. F360-1386

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    Heard there was only one F512M Spider produced by Ferrari and some were converted after market , don't know some TRs were converted too.
     
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    Aaron, thank you! Do you know how recently it was seen in Dublin? This is 67611, a 1986 cut Testarossa that was in Spain for nearly a decade (if not longer). It was for sale back in September, 2014, in Great Britain (advertised as an '87). Apparently the car was ordered new by Swarovski (yes, that Swarovski), and he had the car removed from the factory production line and sent to Lorenz & Frankl of Germany, who transformed the car into a spider, and then sent it back to Ferrari to be finished.
     
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    The factory did not make any F512M Spiders. A few do exist, but they are all conversions. Some additional information can be found on my website, Red Headed.
     
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    Swarovski!? That's an incredible story. I can always count on you to fill in the blanks, Carbon :)

    The pictures in my previous post were taken last August. The car was having some work done in Ken Plant Motors, an independent specialist garage in Dublin. Here's one more picture that was taken around the same time as the others.
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    Thank you for the details, Aaron. Please tell me you drove; please tell me you got the chance to drive it, and you drove it. The Testarossa is one of my favorite Ferraris - and the idea of driving a Testarossa Spyder sounds glorious.
     
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    My goal is to one day know even just half as much about Testarossas as Edvar - if you haven't already, I highly recommend checking out his site, Red-Headed. His site has served me very well on more occasions than I can recount, and it's a tremendous contribution to the community.

    As for the pictures you posted... Since they were taken in August, and I have the car as being for sale in GB in September, is it a safe assumption that you don't know where the car went once it sold?
     
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    PM sent.
     
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    By the VIN it is an '87. Last single Mirror 86 is known to be 67557.
     
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    Oh, hadn't made the link yet !

    Nice website, pretty complete, was nice to have when I was looking for a car.

    The only thing I couldn't find there was an exhaustive illustration of the available colors.
    Kind of made one myself, but not sure I have everything right though.

    The other thing I wanted to stress for you : there might be some inconsistencies in the numbering of the engines for Swiss cars (I bought a swiss car, had the numbers checked by Ferrari, does not fit your numbering).

    That was years ago, so I wouldn't be able right now to tell what the mistake was. If interested, I can PM you what I had at the time, for you to ... deal with.

    Oh, and, yes, I don't think it was mentioned on your site : Canada cars with a front end that lacks one slide - was illustrated in this thread if I'm correct.

    Edit: last thing: can't remember you had shown the rear valence was displaced to let the cats take place below the exhaust on the non-US catalyzed models...
    I also believe, but not sure of that, that middle-east cars had the rear US bumpers but no cats.


    Cheers,
    Emmanuel
     
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