91078, delivered new to Walter Bordese's Symbol Car SpA for Stefano Bucci. Assembly #08319. 10 September 1991 factory build start. 20 December 1991 completion date. Engine #28666. Gearbox #496. Scaglietti Body #359. Recently with DK Engineering, James Cottingham. Marcel Massini
Is that the one which had a mishap on a trip to Italy last year? apologies if I have mixed it up with another UK based ex race F40
Ah, was hoping it had been rebuilt and was back out there again, as I recall seeing a pic of a bare F40 chassis at DK a few months ago and was putting two and two together.
The the ex Sultan of Brunei F40 Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Not sure they quite nailed the paint on this one. The original Brunei pics look more satin than matte, and the red stripe seems much darker now than it used to.
Anything other than the original factory spec is a real shame. I don’t care whom owns it or who restored it.
I believe the car you are thinking of is 74047, and there was not much left to rebuild, certainly not within a year, that said with sufficient resources, Ferrari SpA could give this chassis number a rebirth and the car could experience a second coming. Of interest, the same owner's Miura SV also burned to the ground in 2013. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Here below is this car, 91283 finished in it's original Gun Metal Grey when John Collins had it fir sale at Talacrest in 1991 (of note the Sultan also had another F40 in a similar livery, 85074 in Anthracite). My sometimes flawed notes say DK Engineering spent about $160k converting the Sultan's Gun Metal car back to original Rosso Corsa but keeping the RHD configuration. Now the car is back to Gun Metal Grey once more Image Unavailable, Please Login
Yes that is the one, I bet it is in the process of being rebuilt somewhere, as we know, the value is in the ID, regardless of what was left. The owners son is the one behind Tax the Rich.
People are now taking their standard Silver Carrera GT and sending them to Porsche Classic to get restored with changed paints and totally new liveries. Will more F40 owners ever branch out and do similar things to the Blue F40 rolling around? I think if the metallic green Carrera GT I’m referring to went to auction it would trade at a premium...... just a thought. I love it in red and I am a purist but there are a lot of them in that color. Just a thought. Looks rad in Anthracite with the red stripe IMHO.
I think the desire to change original colors on iconic cars is not something that will stand the test of time IMO.
If it's still at DK, hopefully they'll turn it around, drive it back into the shop and get working on reversing what was done to the car, returning back to it's intended spec.
I will absolutely agree that most every iconic car the majority of ppl know to restore as it left the factory. I would say the future might have some to say I love the F40 but in this color, or a CGT in that color. Seems to be happening on that rare occasion and I can appreciate it. Some dare to be different. After all it doesn't ruin the car forever if someone decides to change it back. Just dollaz
Yes from an artistic or aesthetic point of view color changes can be appreciated, the problem you run into is, as the cars get more valuable, understandably, someone putting up 7 figures will almost always want a car that is as the original artisan created it
If that happened then that would be the 4th color-change then, soon it'll be like a cat with 9 lives, but as rmolke85 says, no worries, it can always go back, and I bet that one day it will
Not sure why its gone back to that awful scheme, especially as they have kept the replacement seats, rather than refitting the grey leather trimmed Testarossa ones the Sultan had. Hopefully its just a wrap. The F40 does look amazing in yellow though as an alternative to red.
If done to a car already repainted I agree to a point. If done to a car with original paint it would be criminal in my opinion. Taking artistic license with a pooch is one thing, I have done it myself. But to an all original car is a tragedy.
