Garage Queens; Mileage/Year/Model

Belts and hoses can be replaced mileage cannot! Enjoy your car but when it comes time to sell it expect to get less for your high mileage car. If I was in the market for a used Ferrari I would look for one with the lowest possible miles and then immediately do the timing belt, hoses, tires etc...

I drove mine 14,000 kms in the last 2.5 years. Never in the rain.

 

I have a 1989 348TS with 22,600 miles. Not exactly a garage queen, but not enough miles in my opinion. I intend to put more smiles on it this winter when the weather is better. My name is Bill and I just want to drive it more.
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1983 308 GTSi
21,000 Miles

 

When I pick mine up tomorrow it will be 12,700 miles and next month it will be 11 years old when the 2006s come in, not that Ferrari does it like Nissan for release dates. 1,136 miles per year or 3.11 miles/day. Just driven by a little old lady back and forth to church each day.

 

1988.5 TR
6,100 Miles
I bought it 1 year ago with 2,500 miles.

 

ummmmm

1999 360 modena with 25,000 miles... mine is a garage queen compared to a friends with 50K miles

does that count ?

-A

 

1988.5 328 GTB with 21,000 miles.

 

1979 308GTB Red on Tan, 17,385 miles........

My name is Chris and my car's a Garage Queen. Actually, I'm doing the service myself and it's taking a lot of time (2-years), as I'm very meticulous......


Chris.

 

I think by the time you are finished with this service the next service will be due soon.

 

...I put 800 in the last 3 months.. now at 2,900

so that is 3000 miles in 10 years or 300 miles per year..hum....

 

1979 512 Boxer, Red/Black, 34,000km (21,250 miles)

My name is John, and my car is a garage queen.
I promise,,, to put, 1,,, 2,,, 3000 miles on it during the next year!
Pheew!

 

'78 308 GTB
14,500m
As delivered for the most part.

Not for long... mileage-wise at least.

 

95 355 Berlinetta
I bought it 4 months ago with 10000 miles. Now has 11800... It's a start.
Chris

 

'96 jetta, dead battery, 120k miles






wait, wrong forum. . .

 

Beverly Hills Classic Cars advertises a 1992 Diablo to have only 220 miles...now that is a garage queen!!!! Saw it on the DuPont Registry website today.

 

For the GQers (Garage Queens), here's an interesting tip from the tech who performed my 30K a couple of yrs ago. Since you're not putting many miles on the car, make sure you run your gas until the tank is empty. If you keep topping off the old gas (which I used to do), he said you can run into problems. Made sense to me. Just an FYI.

 

1984 BB512i with 16600 miles,
Steve

 

You are absolutely correct. Try to run the old gas as low as you can. I try to freshen up the tank every month. Rather than keeping a full tank that many suggest I like to have only a small manageble amount of gas to deal with if I need to drain it.
Another tip is to use Justice Brothers oil treatment in the fuel tank. Use the very thin bodied oil treatment ( there is a heavy one too ) and add to just a gallon or so of gas. Then run it all through the engine. This stuff will clean the valves like nothing else out there.

 

My one:
1986 328 GTS
Bought in Nov. 03 with 12000 miles.
Almost no use (oversea for work) up to June 04.
6500 miles in one year . Now it stands at 18500.
As I am oversea again, it will be a perfect environmentally controlled garage queen for (at least ) the next 12 months: 0 miles.
Ciao
Eugenio

 

1987 328 GTS with 19,619 miles not driven much in past year and a half which is why i'm selling it. Not only should you worry about the gas, but don't forget to change the oil even when not driven. Anyone with a garage queen i highly recommend installing a optima battery.

 

1998 F355 Spider - 9k Miles
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Not driving does more harm then driving the car. Even Ferrari recomends putting at least 3000 miles a year on the car.

 

Try to drive your car located in Italy while working in the Philippines...
Ciao
Eugenio