Aussie Ferrari Spotters Thread??

Was the Dino your first Ferrari it was an old photo if I remember rightly some time after the Morris Marina,big jump


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Yep. Bought it for $18k, sold it for $12k. lol.....gee I'm good at buying and selling cars.

 

Excellent did you have it long,it would have felt like a spaceship compared to anything of the day


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a year...then I was Ferrariless for 6 years.

 

Any thing interesting in the 6 years or just day to day transport


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He was doing pubic transport

 

Ahh yep well we’ve all done thatIf I’m working in town I’ll get the train it’s just easier,the Sydney traffic is just crap anywhere between 6 and 9



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L34 and A9X, but then I saw the light.

 

Lucky sperm.


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18K wow......Would that have been mid 80's ?..........12K would that have been after the 87 market crash when interest rates started to climb above 20% if I remember correctly ?.....

 

A decade earlier I would suspect........in the late eighties, Dinos got up to $200K...more than a new 328 (about $160-180k)
The real killer for supercar values in the seventies were the oil shocks in '73 (which destroyed prices and demand overnight-see Modern Motor mag Oct 75) and '79.

 

And that’s how the poor Americans got a 55 MPH speed limit and yet Jaguar we’re knocking out v12’s like they were going out of fashion


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1977....I'm older than I act.

 

OLIO......

 

What was the new car price for a 246 PP ?

 

That's an excellent question, but I don't know. Ian will know the answer. He's much older than me.

 

circa $17k new in Oz

 

Wow thats more than I expected. A lot of folding in the early '70's !!!
I guess a HQ was around $3-4k so about right.

 

This is a link to site that calculates the relative value of money in Australia from 1850 to the present
http://www.thomblake.com.au/secondary/hisdata/calculate.php

So a 17K Dino in 1972 is about 169K in 2017 terms, so not a cheap car.

 

Average house price in Sydney in 1972 was $23,700 and in Melbourne was $15,000
But a car would be more fun


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True story - in about 1986 my then husband and I had just signed to buy a block of land in Red Hill, Brisbane ($26k). Settlement was due Monday... on Sat we saw a mint 308 in a used car dealers (just near the Valley Pool, for any qlders) with a sticker price of exactly $26k... the cash was ready in our account. .. we spent most of the weekend drooling down the glass and trying to justify spending the money on the car rather than the land. Finally we wimped out and bought the land because his parents would have killed ME (I was apparently responsible for feeding his 'car mania').... Land value didn't match the car value again for maybe 20 years...

 

And you can sleep in you car but you can't drive your house.

 

And if you pour petrol in your house they call you an arsonist..........

 

In 1986 I was 15 and remember going to the Brisbane motor show with my Dad and drooling over the new 308/28 (can't quite remember the 328 release date) at the John Cant Ferrari stand thinking I'll have a Ferrari one day!!!!
Even though I have a 360 now I still have a soft spot for the 328..........maybe one day??

 

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On Jan 1st 1986 I drove this car back to Qld from Sydney with my father (RIP).

I should get around to getting rid of it.