drove a gated shifter 360 spider and now i want one !!!!

its the 1st time i driven a manual ferrari and it was great !!
i couldnt believe how good and smooth it was, the clutch is much easier than porsche gt2s, and pick up was great, dont need to touch the throttle when parking back and forth, all in all, awesome at slow speeds.
my oldest ferrari is a 430 and newest a 488, so i wasnt rich enough for the 360s some 15 years ago, but now these gated ones are relatively cheap and easy to drive. I had a laferrari the same day but i just wanted to try a manual 360! that tells u something, and it was a box finally ticked on my wish list and its truly awesome.

It had enough torque to make me surprised at something so old, it still feels it got all its 400 horses after 50K kms and all these years, dont know what the sport button does when i tuggle it on the left side of the dash though, because i didnt feel any difference. Maybe because i always got the top down.
the spider feels a little bit loose but still solid given its vintage and handles spongy compared to the 430 but still very acceptable, but the gated shifter made everything perfect, seriously. Interior feels much more spacious than my scud, maybe because of its open top. and u can really adjust the seats way back and be really comfortable.

its almost as easy to shift and clutch as any economy car, at first i worry about shifting into a wrong gear because of the gates, so i keep looking down to see where im shifting which is another fun thing u can never do in another car, maybe minus the old lambos. but after several shifts its just as easy as any other manual, plus the chink and chunk sound jamming into the gate slots feel much more mechanical than anything else, no rubbery feel here.
i know im stating the obvious here, but i cant believe how good a manual fcar is!!

now, since a 430 spider would be much harder to find and cost much more, even though a gated 360 is also very rare where im from, but i think i like a 360 more than a 430 on this one, maybe because its older, lower power, and from the cruising that i will do in an older car, the 360 spider fits better. plus i never had a 360 before. i seen several 355s, but their interior always look old and awfully need refurbishing, i never bothered looking at one, and i expect them to be really slow, plus the 360 power feels about adequate for what im gonna do with it.

i drove a bone stock example that was always dealer maintained and pretty much perfect, but i'll be doing 20" rims and definitely a wailing exhaust to make it look and sound better if i get one.

all in all, this is one old ferrari that im mighty impressed with, mainly because its got a gated shifter, i cant say that about a 355, 512tr that i tried before.

 

by the way, who can give me that old link of the 360 spider moded into a 360 cs spider.
thank u so much, i cant find it.

 

thanks u guys!