Do owners of the 355 challenge have a window sticker that they can share from '95 or '96+ cars? Never seen one. Was the kit included as optional equipment on the sticker or added separately later? Robb
i have a whole number of stickers .. i will take a photo and send when i am with the car this weekend.
Just to clarify, I am talking original sales ticket showing the mileage, prices, etc. not race inspection stickers. Robb.
Robb, the challenge cars did not have window stickers. The American market is the only one that requires such a document to be attached to a vehicle. FNA is the entity that produces the window sticker for the road cars not the factory ie; they don't come Italy with it attached they are added after the importer, FNA, gets the car. Since the CH cars are race cars the US law doesn't reguire they come with a sticker. If the car is a converted car(kit added to a 95 road car) then that car would have a window sticker but it did not come from FNA as "challenge car" it was a road car to begin with. All the kits came in a crate to the dealers that ordered them and those parts were added to any 355 that was to race in the series. All of the challenge cars that are '95 or '96 cars in the US are converted road cars. Some of the euro '96 cars are factory built CHs, but none of the '96 US cars are factory built challenge cars this is all related to the OBD1 vs. OBD11 EPA rules. Ferrari was still building OBD1 cars for some markets in 1996. The US '96 cars were all OBD11 cars. That all ended in 1997, all of those CH cars are factory built with the motronic 2.7 system(OBD1) which was illegal in the EPA eye for road use. Hope that helps. I have a copy of my invoice from Ferrari for the CH that I owned and a copy of the MSO but that is all the paper work that would be available for a challenge car.
Ok. Makes sense about FNA. So the kit for '95's was probably handled as a receipt type purchase like you would see on a major service receipt with labor and parts. Would be cool to see exactly how they listed it and the time involved. But I guess i may be the only one who cares about these small details. Love the cars. Thanks much. Robb
I'm with you on the history/paper work on the cars part of the enjoyment of ownership. You are correct you would have a receipt for parts and labor. The factory '97 I owned had just such a reciept on the '98 update "kit" that was installed to update to new rules. without digging through old docs IIRC that kit cost 18,000.00 plus labor to install.
As far as I could find in my research on that issue I came up with "no" as the answer. My thoughts were why supply a race car with road car stuff. They came from Ferrari stripped from anything that wasn't nessesary for track use, ie; door panels, air bags, carpet, trunk carpet, a/c, pass. seat, etc.
