Anyone have a damaged ferrari too costly to repair/maintain to put on the road?

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=175768

 

yea, I operate my fleet pretty lightly...

#20405 is still on the road after running the Texas Mile event, down in Goliad..

#22641 is out at the Ranch, saw it today...poor thing needs new fuel lines and filler neck coupling, along with mounting fresh Goodyears (I have them) and timing belts and bearings...it's out in the rain, rusting up.....

#22127 OMG! I went by to wish Ferda a Happy Holiday and pay for my last oil change and filter, it went like this:
(I had taken it in chasing an ignition misfire, after putting new plugs and coils on it that didn't solve the problem..)

"Ya, we started on it only last week, we have been so busy..... your carburetors had internal leakage, we cannot tune ze motor properly with these conditions, so these four buckets are your Webers..."

Alan looks down into four plastic buckets full of springs brass stuff, floats, bodies, who the Hell KNOWS what......

"Then, your distributors, we inspect them and make sure they are advancing......'dis is very important to your operation of ze engine........so these two buckets are your Magnetti Marelli units."

Alan looks down into two more plastic buckets, full of castings, springs, bushing and stuff.......

"I think you should be running really good by late January sometime..."

OMG! What's THAT gonna cost!!!!!! ROTFLMAO!

I told him I'd need three weeks payroll most likely so give me that much notice to pick up the car!!!!!!!

 

yeah, 90% of owners

 

91%

 

And for this, you should be shot. Sell it, let somebody take care of it. Use the $$ to pay for proper maintenance for the other 2!


In the early 70's, a physician friend of my Dad's had a 275 GTB. He bought it new, and once drove it to a baseball game in San Francisco. While the car was parked at the game, somebody smashed it's windshield. He tried to replace the glass, but couldn't find any at any price. Rather than sell it in that condition and at current prices for that car, he parked it, and it sat for years in his garage. Fast forward to the mid 80's, and the market changes of that time. Add in finding a windshield, and you can imagine how holding on to that car paid off.

 

It'd be rusting inside as well, Jimpo.....


..maybe if these beyotchs would quit throwing me out of houses I've paid for????

..must be doing something wrong.......

At least the tornadoe damage to the barn was on the other side....and you'd never think a Longhorn could clear the hood in one jump, but she did.......

 

I have three valid VIN number plates...that's all I'll need when the Family unfreezes my Trusts..........LOLOLOL!

I might get shot by then, actually, who knows???????

 

When I met Dick Little, he was in the process of selling his ultra-rare 195 Inter (1951 Paris Auto Show car for Ghia)....he had started the restoration at KTR Engineering here in MA, but was getting bills/quotes that were WAY BEYOND obscene. Unfortunately, he had already stripped the old paint from the car and was half-way to putting it back together when he could no longer finish the project.

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=149075&highlight=195+inter+Geils

Dick LOVED the car, but could no longer restore/keep it for what people were demanding to do-justice to a vintage car like this one.

 

uncle Tom does...he now lives in the Keys of the shoers of Florida...just ask for him .....everyone in town knows him...has a whole bunch of ferraris just setting and rusting in the ocean air

 

I had no idea you have three! Pictures?

 

If someone is looking for some rare hard to find parts try us

www.lascuderiarossa.com

 

Here ya go, Alex..these have been posted before....

Mario Andretti's house in Sonoma...he blessed it with the Italian Mojo Blessing..
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Then, from back when Lady Valeria still loved me.....
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Then after my third cancer surgery, I dumped some investments and got a third one, for my third child.....
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I was well on my way, Valeria had approved construction of a garage on her estate.......but then my Technician died of cancer and someone took the Miura from his home......
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The hurricanes hitting the Gulf Coast were a turning point, I think......I had to move the cars from Houston as criminals were targeting them, breaking into her house to steal things and harm us, I was very close to killing somebody, so they had to go......

Garage never got built and I moved away......

So they are not so much "damaged" in any way, just "unused"........which is very hard on these cars.

The happiest ones are the ones that roll every day. I use #20405 to run errands on the weekends, drive the moisture out of the interior and dash guages......

 

Thanks Orlando, it is only the encouragement from this website that keeps me into the Ferrari world, sometimes...

"Lot's of people VISIT FerrariLand, Alan....very few have what it takes to LIVE there........"
John Vallandingham RIP

 

OT but I cant help myself. If you ever need assistance/help with the moisture issue I'm you man LOL!

 

You going to the Jewelry Store tonight?????

I can always use some motivation to get the blue one rolling again, there's a NAPA in Waller right down from AJ's shop!

We'll get the parts there..... my brother would do cartwheels, to see it leave....

 

Sorry I cant make the event tonight but I will be at saturday's Driversource event before leaving for a family reunion, how about the next weekend? I'm open for any help I can be to you on weekend's because I'm starting RE school fulltime next week. It would be an honor for me to help you or anyone else, I'm on cloud 9 when I'm around Ferrari's and Ferrari people.

Just let me know how I can be of assistance for anything,
Gregg

 

Very cool! Thank you for sharing Bubba, enjoy in good health!

 

The Medical Center is great....every time they finish surgery......it's "gone"......

 

The blue one was a Ron Tonkin Portland car....78 year old Mr. Ed Hodel went 5K miles in 20 years, Valeria and I received it and it was 2,400 miles to get back home!

One of the best experiences in my life with her, not counting the back strain towards the end.....