599 gated stick manual Official picture thread

Sublimely beautiful car!

 

156075 is definitely not a 2009 599. First registration, maybe, but built in fall 2007.

 

That's a nice looking 599!

 

#156243 for sale on autoscout24. I don't dare to ask your thoughts on the asking price haha. Image Unavailable, Please Login

L.L.

 

Every day, an idiot wake up.

Daniel

 

Greater fool theory.

 

You are right of course, I guess the first day of registration is in 2009 but the production is August or September 2007

 

Do not worry, after the RM Sotheby's sale, they will adjust the selling price ( A LOT)

 

#166663 listed for sale again, which makes me believe it hasn't changed hands yet. Same KM as the last time I believe. Image Unavailable, Please Login

L.L.

 

#156075 just sold at Villa Erba with a highest bid of €565,000. Pretty predictable outcome for the European market if I may add.

L.L

 

150332 is for sale by Andreas Wüest AG for 599000 CHF with 40028KM.
https://andreaswuest.com/cars_for_sale/2007-ferrari-599-gtb-manual/

 

Off topic, but not by a lot: This gated six 2004 575M with 2,600 miles(!) that sold for $410,000 last week on Bring a Trailer: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2004-ferrari-575m-maranello-13/. Gated six mania lives on.

 

Makes we want to convert mine to a manual!

 

599's looks so natural with a stick!


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#149952 - recent conversion - for sale thru BAT
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2007-ferrari-599-gtb-fiorano-46/

 

612 was actually the first all aluminum chassis GT, the 360 was the first aluminum chassis production Ferrari. The 599 chassis is a shortened 612 chassis.

 

I saw this one a year ago - if I'm not mistaken - at Ferrari in Palm Desert, before it went to Ferraris Online. Looked fresh in the flesh.

 

Pretty sure the FofPD and Ferraris online car has 1K miles. Though it was apparently still not driving well... agricultural clutch/shifting feel was the categorization from one of our own who drove it while at the Sheehan's.

 

This is correct.

The car was horrible to drive. Quite simply put, the F1 was million times nicer and easier to drive.

If you watch the video when Doug drove the car you can hear him discuss the heavy clutch without trying to scare too many buyers off.

Also, the bite point was so far at the end it was undrivable!

 

On Monday July 3 EAG CEO Chris Heuss posted a comment to the BaT auction of 599 #149952 with this interesting information: "Yes, the initial conversions we had were based on the older Ferrari design, which used a solid rod to connect the internal shift box and external shift box assembly. While functional, this design had certain drawbacks. It was challenging to shift, causing an unpleasant chatter inside the cabin due to the rod acting like a tuning fork."

I have never seen a description that a shifter rod in a Ferrari 599 (or a 456, 550, 575, or 612, for that matter) acts like a tuning fork, causing an unpleasant chatter inside the car. The in-cabin performance of one of the first EAG shifter rod gated six conversions is depicted at the 20:40 mark in this YouTube video. The Noise/Vibration/Harshness issues in this video do not sound like a "tuning fork" phenomenon. Rather, they sound like interference between the shifter rod and the torque tube.

This post is undoubtedly an example of an Internet beating of a dead horse, given that EAG has moved on from shifter rods for the 599. But the "tuning fork" description is interesting at least as a historical data point. By the way, in this same BaT comment CEO Chris also states that EAG is going with cables in its 612 conversions, and that EAG had completed two such 612 conversions as of last Monday.

 

In other news, the YouTube video that the DailyDrivenExotics channel posted up today has, at the 18:40 mark, DDE's Dave Coulter having a smartphone call with EAG's Art Bartosik, in which Art agrees to fly out to the DDE shop in Orange County to install a conversion kit in Dave's 599. The time delay of YouTube videos is usually hard to figure out, but DDE subscribers do know that Dave was absent for the Gumball 3000 European Tour through June 17. I'm guessing the video was taped at least a week or ten days after the end of the Gumball. Anyways, it should be interesting to see Art in action doing the conversion at the DDE shop.

Another interesting thing is that Dave asks Art during the phone call "Do you have a kit ready for me, that you can get to me?," and Art replies "Not quite. We're still making stuff, I mean, we still have parts on the CNC machine." This is interesting because CEO Chris has represented elsewhere online that EAG has 90 599 kits in stock. I am a big fan of EAG and all, but it would be great if they could get their stories straight.

 

that car was for sale at *****************, Atlanta, in December 2021, ( and before in April 2017) not so sure about your locations