Ferrari F40 sleeping somewhere in Saudi Arabia

I am impressed.........great post Adnaan.

 

Don't blame me. Demo started it!

 

I'll be the first to admit that I did not believe this car actually existed. I thought the whole thing was pure make-believe.

That said, this car was never available for any price, let alone the 30k that the original poster suggested.

Evidently the owner is, eventually, going to get it fixed. It seems that there's a tremendous amount to be done.

A Ferrari with low miles (if this one does, in fact, have such low miles) is hardly the treasure that some would have us believe, when it has been neglected to the point that fixing it costs as much as any F-40 is worth in the first place.

 

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Now that is one very cool story!!! I bet that car is still sitting there in ten years.........

 

I've been keeping up with this post over the past few weeks and it unfolded brilliantly. Great story. Demo you're the man!

 

Great story! Though it is very sad to see something so wanted, looking so neglected...

The pile of scrap metal, and the front end of a Range Rover sitting around the garage don't give you much confidence with the place it's being stored... Hence, unfortunately the F40's condition isn't such a surprise

Anyway... What of the white 550? And Demo's new barn find?

 

Thanks again for the thread and I'm glad you came back despite all the hostility. Any info on the Mercedes (Pullmann?) next to the F40? Quite a rare car too

Modificata - great, although saddening pics.

 

here you go guys

 

Hi, thanks. But check post #205. They are all there and more.

Best,

 

I also find this VERY strange, I am pretty sure the odometer has been tampered with. It makes no sense that the life time odometer has less than the trip odometer. I haven't been to the dealer in years, but back in the 90's I remember seeing brand new ferrari's rolling off the transporter, and these ferrari's had 80 to 100 factory kms... because each ferrari was test driven before sent out to dealers. The trip and life odometer both read the same numbers, and the dealer would let the customer reset the trip odometer to ZERO and explain for the mileage on the car.

also, after examining the speedometer pic, I noticed something rather odd. I don't know if it is the camera angle, but the Zero's in the life time odometer do not seem to align up perfectly straight.

I found some other F40 speedo pics, and you can see the numbers lign up perfectly.
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maybe this is a help..

In 1995 my F355 was delivered new to me in AZ. As it was coming off the Horseless Carriage transport I snapped a bunch of pictures including the odometer. It had 88 miles on the odometer and 0 on the trip meter

 

http://www.wreckedexotics.com/newphotos/exotics/4f40_20071225_002.shtml

While the location states Dubai could this be the same F40? Is this picture one that has been on Ferrari Chat before?

 

That's a replica.

 

Do you mean 0 on the odo and 88 on the trip? (This would confirm my earlier comment about odo's starting before 0)

 

I don't understand. The numbers in your photos DONT line up perfectly.

 

I remember when I picked up my 1992 Mondial t (about the same year as the F40). The odometer was very slightly out of line, and our immediate thought was its been altered. However we looked at the history and it was so detailed that there was no chance it could have been altered and we were satisfied. Funnily enough after going to the next 1000 miles it all lined up nicely. My guess is the clocks from that period are all but perfect.

And if you look at the two clocks that Manny posted above, you will see that the bottom clock is not perfectly in line.

 

Somebody know, something about this???
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Wow, here we go again

Anymore pics?

 

LOL looks like thhe middle east again. The problem with this place is that you leave a car fora week and it ends up looking like that.

 

You can't be serious....that is a well known BAD replica.