Just need a little yellow paint for the headlight clusters and a straight pipe exhaust, and that would be the perfect machine.
Personally I think the black for the headlight clusters gives the F50's nose a little more of an aggressive aesthetic, this works for the F40, the Enzo, and the LaFerrari as well. Here's the same car, Texas-registered F-FIFTY at the time. Image Unavailable, Please Login
I would totally agree that it looks better, but, I wouldn’t modify an F50 if they all came body color. Do we know conclusively that all F50’s left the factory with the headlight surrounds in body color and not blacked out?
does anyone know this very low milage F50 for sale at Tom Hartley?: https://www.tomhartley.com/used-car-details/used-ferrari-f50-classiche-convertible-rosso-corsa-manual-petrol/id-18851/ thanks Mark
I can do that, and I will get the usual salesman's blurb about whatever he wants me to hear, or I can ask and often enough someone on FChat knows the car and you get some of the omitted or forgotten detail. These cars are high value assets, they move from country to country, storage unit to storage unit, owner to owner - but the mileage stays so low, so they are clearly never registered to be used on the road. So although they may show "x" amount of registered keepers they may have had multiple more owners throughout their life. Particularly in the UK, the car can change from owner to owner but stay under the dealers registration, as its in storage and not road registered - thus never clocking up multiple owners with the DVLA - happens all day long every day. In the UK you do not have to disclose chassis number or registration number on a car dealers for sale website. No worries anyway, all is good now.
just to point out Tom Hartley is one of the oldest, most established reputable dealers in the UK, and i would have absolutely no hesitation in buying a car from him, you don't get to be in business that long unless you are one of the best. This looks to be a stunning original low mileage F50, that would have been priced considerably higher pre the Coronavirus pandemic, the chances are it may never have even been offered for sale. Strange times we live in, the world is changing - sellers will have remorse, buyers will have amazing opporunities.
Thank you. It’s an interesting topic. Marcel - can you shed some conclusive light on the topic of headlight surrounds? Were they all born from the factory in body color, or were some black?
Agreed. Peculiar that they chose to not make the surrounds black on rosso corsa cars. It would have been much better.
The thing why a Red F50 appeal to me as much as a F40 was due to the red headlight, the front end is too tame in comparison.
F50 and Palm Beach, my two favorite things. That house is named Southways. Incidentally, I have this picture (unsure whom to credit), of what I presume is the same car, in period, at North County and Royal Poinciana Way, a full 0.5 miles from Southways. Image Unavailable, Please Login
