Just FYI - Mondial For Sale In Ferrari Ads

I think your car looks spectacular! Having read your past threads and reviewing your ad, it appears your car is a great value for someone looking for the perfect mondial!

There aren't many cars of this caliber out there. Good luck with the sale!

 

I'm not sure I would buy a mondial that's been tracked. I'd probably not show that third picture. When I first saw the mileage and the awards, I thought it was a nice garage queen for show. But then knowing it's been tracked would probably bring down the price... a lot!

Ace

 

Having hat a Mondial t for 3 years and 14,000 miles, I would specifically be attracted to this one because it HAS been tracked and by a guy who knows what he does.

I have done a complete rebuild and restore of mine. She used to be a garage queen in Monaco, and I put more miles on her in the last 3 years than she had since '89.

Many things went wrong at the beginning, when she had never been tracked and had the lowest mileage. Now, I have tracked her 3 times, with no hitches and eating up newbies in their 911's etc. Sure in the straights 20 year old technology and mechanics are a little dated, but in the corners, physics remain the same and it showed its true colors.

I haven't turned a screw on her since her major+cam belts earlier this summer. Anyone buying her now will have a gem at 26,000 real miles on the clock and be sure all wrinkles have been ironed out in three pretty good shakedowns.

So, if I were looking for a Ferrari, and one to be used all the time (otherwise why buy one?) I'd go for one that I knew was used like a top athlete, pampered when resting so it works hard when it has to earn its rent...

If it looked tracked to death and not looked after, well then it would be a whole other kettle of pistons!

Marco

 

Certainly you must be joking... How hard do you think he could have been on this car at a track day that allowed passengers & did not require a roll bar in a cabriolet? Not to mention that he drove those laps on what looks to be street tires. The car is unharmed.

Now if the car was "RACED" as in door to door redline for 45 minutes smoking brakes on suspension straining wide slicks with gutted interior for reduced weight then "okay" -perhaps the car then has been driven hard. But a little drivers ed event / parade laps like shown in the photo? I drive harder than most guys at drivers ed events when I am on my way to church.

Its silly to even think that a car that made a few laps at a track automatically reduces its value. Silly.

 

Precisely!!!



FWIW, His car is well maintained and appears to be in spectacular mechanical and cosmetic condition. The "track" photo is also illuminating because it shows the lengths he went to protect the cosmetics on the track! I think he probably spent more time taping up the bumper and lights then driving

Bottom line, this is probably THE car to have if you are looking for a Mondial 3.2 cab









....and can't find one in black

 

Yea right! Common guys, who are you trying to kid here. How do I know he didn't red line to red line on every turn? Burning the clutch, sliding the car sideways and that ways. What? Just because there's a photo protecting the front of the car means that the car was driven nicely? I'm not even worry so much about the body as the mechanicals. The stuff you don't see on the outside or the surface of the engine.

Give me a break. Don't even talk a prestine car when it's been on the tracks. Been there and done that. All cars that's been tracked have a shorter life span. Period.

Don't track a car unless you don't mind pushing it off the cliff first!

Ace

Now to find my grandma driven, one owner, all tools and books, less than 1k mile, chip-less, garage queen that I can put in a glass box.

 

I think you are missing the point. YOU CANT "TRACK" a mondial cab. The regulations on cabriolets without rollbars on tracks are so severe these days it becomes the functional equivalent of a really spirited backroad drive.

Now, if you are saying you would never buy a Ferrari that has some spirited driving in its past, good luck!


Ferraris are not made of glass.

 

Joe is right. Which track was this spirited ride done on? Do the racing helmets negate the need for a roll bar? And by the way, the car does lookk amazing, both on and off the track.

 

It sure looks like a nice car to me!

 

I wish this car were available when I bought my 3.2 cab!!!!

What bd was doing is what these cars were DESIGNED to do!

From one dog to another...

H

 

WOW, I never knew so many people here were scared of that tiny little redline on their tachometer, its a Ferrari, its meant to do that.

There is a difference between redlining on every shift of every day of its life and the once or twice redline a day, it wont hurt the motor. My Dino sees the redline every day I drive it, sometimes just once, sometimes twice, oh ok sometimes a lot more than that.

Of course get that motor good and hot first, if its cold keep the revs low.

And never do a burnout it just makes you look stupid and eats your clutch.

Now back to this really awesome Mondial

 

Beautiful car, tracked or not, it is a well kept car and I would not hesitate buying it knowing how the seller took care of it.