550 Production

Red does for me too! Many other subdued colors highlight the lines and make it less shouting, but a red classic proportioned berlinetta looks always as an event for me amongst the grayscale of the other traffic here in italy...where it seems that no coloured car is sold anymore...

 

Hi Taz, any chance you could post those 1997 550 numbers? I just bought the yellow 97 550 108955 and would love to know how prevalent yellow was that first yr!

 

94

Note these color numbers from Ferrari are for all Ferrari models.


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Interesting to see the grey black trend.

 

Does anyone know how many (European) 550’s were built in a dark red color (like Rosso Barchetta/Fiorano/Rubino)? I don’t think I have ever seen one for sale here.

This one is Rosso Barchetta (but it’s US spec).

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I know of six US 1997 model year 550s in yellow (including your car, obviously). So that's the minimum number although I doubt there are/were very many more.

I don't know how many but I know of at least two Euro cars in Rosso Barchetta and six in Rosso Fiorano.

 

If this is helpful.....

Allegedly 1997 Yellow 550's (Source: registry in Nathan's book)
108248 US
108447 Euro
108538 US
108717 US
108955 US
109221 US
109537 US
109554 Euro
109564 Euro
109567 US
109570 UK
109586 US

 

Mike what an incredible pic… I initially thought it was a 1:18 scale model! Can you share details of how this pic was taken?

Ruben

 

Yes, it’s a real car You can find the photos here on road and track: https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/classic-cars/a27333375/1999-ferrari-550-maranello-for-sale/

 

Guys, how many 550 manual were made?

 

I guess you missed post #4 which appears to answer your query ?

 

I had a 1998 Rosso Barchetta 550. There was a guy keeping up with colors. He had located 11 around the world, and 3 in the US. To be clear the 3 I refer to is for the year 1998. But very few were in that color.

 

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Ahhh all of them were manuals thanks !

 

I had a rabbit as a wheel man too. I had about 49,000 miles on it. I drove the heck out of it. But it was very expensive to keep up to mint condition. The first 3 years were $10,000 per year.
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Hey @Patek, by chance did you buy your 550 from Ferrari of Atlanta? If so, that may be the same Rossa Barchetta 550 I looked at during during my search in early 2017. It had just under 44k on it at the time. I flew down there to look at and drive 3 different 550s that were for sale in the ATL area at the time. I thought it was a very nice 550 for 44k, liked the color, and Ferrari of ATL had tons of documentation on it as they had sold and serviced it its whole life (IIRC). Drove very strong, too. Apparently the previous owner was president of the the ATL chapter of FCA. Anyway, ending up buying a 22k mile Nero Daytona 550 from Merlin.

If it's not the same car, well, never mind... ;-)

 

NE550 I kept it until late 2016, but it was car that came out of Florida, I bought it from FOF in 2012. Not sure. I could have sworn mine was close to 49,000 miles.
Best,
John

 

Regarding the 575's I see 246 manuals worldwide, any idea how many of the 737 US spec 575's were manual?

 

At some point I went briskly thru the registry in Nathan’s book and I kept these notes which may or may not be accurate….


116 total manual 575’s exported to the US.

41 Rosso Corsa
24 Grigio Titanio
17 Nero
14 Argento
4 Grigio Alloy
3 Grigio Ingrid
3 Blue Pozzi
3 TdF
2 Azzuro Calfornia
2 Giallo Modena
1 Blu NART
1 Verde Zeitweg
1 “unlisted color” (#133720

on my phone I also have kept this note (which may or may not be accurate)…..


550 numbers 3080 total
USA total = 940?
1997 = 102
1998 = 173
1999 = 259
2000 = 269
2001 = 137

575 numbers 2064 total
USA total = 580?
2002 = 208
2003 = 167
2004 = 127
2005 = 78
First US = 126969
Last US = 141817

 

Eric- Hard to believe there were that many US spec 3 pedal 575Ms. There were only 177 LHD 575Ms total for all markets.

 

133720 is a blue UK, RHD 575M F1 and I've seen it several times. The registry in Nathan's book came from F-Register and isn't reliable.

I have 96 US-spec manual 575Ms, 78 Euro and 3 Japanese = 177 total in LHD, which matches Taz's number (although that's probably by luck!)

 

How many 550 Barchetta were US spec?

 

136

 

#rareair

 

Thanks for the responses.

Any idea how many 430 spider manuals and how many 430 coupe manuals were US spec

 

Yes but it is a funny question to ask in a topic headed 550 Production

I have: 186 manual US F430s and 314 manual US F430 Spiders. That is not counting any that have subsequently been converted.