It’s not my favorite verde but I’d still drive it. Prefer more emerald/metallic like silverstone. (By the way, love Ferrari’s take on green paint names). But this is still nice.
I dunno.... simply from a buyers position, Whats the minimum a Gated V12 Ferrari is worth in any condition? It has a clean title. 40k 50k 60k? Likely not less, anymore. To a buyer who may have restoration experience, hell even Ferrari experience, the present bid is fair. To an uneducated buyer who has Social media money to burn, even still the present bid is ballpark to similar cars. To anyone wanting a well sorted Ferrari, this isn't your vehicle
I pegged this at high 50’s given mileage and color. This is a worthwhile car to restore to a 2. $60k buys you a lot of work and then he’s in it $130k. If he ends up $40k into it (unlikely in my opinion), he came out ahead. If they end up $90k into it, well, hope you enjoyed the drive! But on bid history, just hope he holds up his end of the deal. It’s more suggestive of someone who likes to say “I’m the high bidder on a Ferrari right now” for 2 days than a serious buyer. Coin flip at best if someone bails him out.
Anone remember this auction....(not ferrari) https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1981-porsche-928-37/ The seller also had no $H!TS to give. Entertaining dialog
Someone bid it up already. Good luck to these people. Always glad when there’s an auction I don’t have to wonder about. Now I’m gonna go back to fixing my 4000 square foot landscaping tarp to finally kill these saplings and weeds for spring.
Likewise. Image Unavailable, Please Login The design is retro-modern Daytona. It's obvious. Like the 550 is a retro-modern 365 GTC/4. All in good fun. I have my own ridiculous agenda, and so does everybody else.
Owning this car would break me in half. I need one I either fix everything on, or nothing on. This one is neither because you can't drive it as-is and fixing everything would bankrupt me.
I also need to ask an ignorant question….has Fabio done….or does anyone that we know have any of his performance artwork on a 456?
It's the right car for someone, and even at the current bid, if you're OK with waiting until next summer to drive it, semi-restoration may not be an unviable financial proposition. It would comp similarly to the (I THINK) NART Blu 456 that sold about a year ago on there with ~30k miles for like $127-129k. I'm not willing to wait that long, though as someone who's been saying that for 3 years now, am beginning to wonder whether I should change my tune. Edit: Sera Blu. The Blu NART was a GTA that sold a week earlier. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1995-ferrari-456-gt-23/
I think they have been. Your playing in $100k plus territory anyway once you start sorting and driving it. The sales price is only the first kick in the nuts on these. So +/- $15-$20 “savings”. Who cares. Buy what you like the most and dive in. Anyway, that one was over $65k ($70k+ with fees) and it needs A TON of work.
On todays green 456 who in the wide world of sports is @asgor — I see you went from your 1997 456 to a 1991 348. Should those bidders send you an donation for doing such a huge favor on your “needs” list post. That was awesome in a classic way over there on BaT. You are a landmine deterrent!
have Fabio deletes and H pipe. Waiting for the 456 header group buy on here I think the days of the affordable M shifter cars has left the port. People seem to have come around to the fact that it is a different caliber car, especially the final versions built along side the later 575M’s with all of the various supersessions, improvements and updates.I mean Ferrari tried like 4 different water pump impellers alone before they got that right on the later models.
Im torn over posts like his on BaT. He did the same thing to the Black 456 last week and was wrong on a few points. The dialog is good and its a wealth of knowledge when people who know post, but when a non-bidder just comes on and completely nit-picks a car...a sub-par at that too, it seems it would destroy the hunt for whomever may be on the fence. Let the interested parties lead the discussion, not necessarily simply put out worst case scenerio as fact... but he did notice plenty of relevant things. The spoiler position was a good catch.
Truthfully, I am not a serial auction killer. I posted my "list" for the green 456 also because of the caustic reaction by the seller to an earlier comment I had made. His car is a poorly described heap AND he comes across as a smug weasel: that rubbed me wrong. I know nothing about "doing the same thing to the Black 456 last week" - it wasn't me.
Apologies for that statement, you are (obviously) correct, it wasn’t you indeed. That black one had some similar dialog and I glazed over it too quickly on the author, sorry. The green one is an interesting seller. Either knows nothing of the BaT game involved or simply doesn’t care. At the price point his car is at vs condition it’s in, I’d say it no longer matters to him, as long as the check clears.
There’s a lot of people who cheerlead these on BAT and tell stories about their dentist’s wife’s friend’s mechanic who had one that needed nothing but oil changes. Without posts like Asgor the discussion is completely one-sided. It’s a problem on that site in general - it is very rarely a place to get an objective opinion on running costs. Just tall tales about your wife’s yoga instructor’s accountant’s car. I think the seller knows the car is rough. I said the site had turned into “bring a trust fund” and he suggested I bring 2. He’s a good sport.
