Was visiting friends in the Cobourg area. My friend tells me of a guy who just bought a Ferrari worth a million$$. He is supposed to own a large manufacturing plant there. Can anyone confirm this??
It's about an hour or so drive east of Toronto. Not a big place by any means. Still, anything's possible....... Neil
Million dollar Ferrari? So that narrows it down to a few models: -Enzo -F40 LM (potentially $1 mil) -FXX -F50 GT -288 GTO (I can't remember if that's the exact model name... the one I'm thinking of is the one that looks a bit like the F40 but was produced before the F40 in an extremely limited run) -250 California
Could be possible without a doubt. Moving out for retirement maybe after aquiring some wealth? I have no idea what Cobourg is like but lets see if we get any news on this.
I think you mean the 288 GTO Evoluzione, pretty rare cars. Only 5 around. And there are ONLY 3 F50 GTs in World. I know one of them is owned by a Japanese collector, the other is in Californa, and the last one was for sale in UK a while back, don't know who bought it. I guess the "Million $$ Ferrari" in Cobourg is an Enzo.
It's some small town kid telling tales out of school about a 360 he saw drive through town. Whatever.
You guys would be really surprized at what lurks in the garages of small obscure(<-sp?) towns. Many very wealthy people have second homes in these areas.
Like in Thetford Mines in Quebec... Large car collection (300+) containing some rare Ferraris (F40, F50) and some not so rare.
That is very true. If they see them very rarely it might just have been a newer model they havn't heard of or seen on the streets before and to them it is amillion-dollar Ferrari
Hey no KIDS involved here,, my friend is huge car guy in the area. He's into muscle cars so ya he doesn't know Ferraris other than what I tell him but he does know a lot people in the area. And yes you never know who lives in these small towns.
I know a Ferrari owner in Cobourg, local FCA executive, 360 Modena either silver or titanium. Previously had a 355 if I remember correct. Nice couple. Chris
It's two brothers actually. Owners of a big carpet making company or something. There was a plan for the town to build a car museum for the collection. But that didn't work out. Patrick
Found the link http://lesoleil.cyberpresse.ca/journal/2005/04/18/automobile/03782_le_tresor_cache_des_freres_demers.php
......so here now everyone can read it easier. Chris The hidden treasure of the Demers brothers Ian Bussières, special Collaboration 18/04/2005 a voyage among the most beautiful cars in the world With the shelter of the glances since many years in three gigantic warehouses with Thetford Mines, one of the most important collections of rare cars in the world, that of the Roger brothers, Michel and Serge Demers, will have soon a window, whereas the town council finally succeeded in getting along with the three businessmen for the construction of a Museum of the car. Begun there is more than 25 years by three brothers multimillionnaires and fanatics of beautiful cars, the Demers Collection gathers 330 European and American of luxury and famous cars, of which several exist only in small number, and is worth several tens of million dollars. "All that started with our father Charles-Auguste, founder of the family company of cover-floors, which always kept its Cadillac old women", Michel remembers. His/her Roger brother, now 44 years old, had the puncture of the car at the 17 years age "I always liked the cars, even as my father found that I went a little too quickly on the road! However, he thought that while I collected the cars, at least I did not make evil! "it with a half smile remembers. Today, of the specialists traverse the world on behalf of the Demers family in the search of luxury cars, which they then make import in Quebec by plane or boat. Certain vehicles, which do not meet the Canadian standards, must even be the subject of special agreements with the ministry for Transport. Cars having belonged to monarchs or to famous artists, others whose production was limited or there remain only some models: in more of having mouth and to be always impeccable without to be reconditioned, the cars of the Demers family have a whole a history that the three brothers hasten to tell with passion. Famous cars "This one, it is Vector, the fastest car in the world! It can roll up to 200 km/h and it already belonged to Michael Jackson. The company produced only 26 of them, including 16 with a V8 engine and only eight like ours with an engine V12 ", lance Roger Demers with a spark in the eyes. Demers also have DeLorean DMC-12, the famous car to travel in the time of the Retour trilogy towards the future, and a Cobra Shelby, the vehicle coveted by the criminals of the Partis film in 60 seconds. Several dream to have one day Rolls-Royce. Demers have of it more than one ten, including one with the grid, the contour of the windshield and the trimmings of the cap out of solid silver and Phantom III V12 which had been given in gift to the Shah of Iran! Even thing for the Corvette, of which they have each model of 1953 to 1961, the Jaguar, Ferrari or Lamborghini. They also put the produced hand on a specimen of first Thunderbird in 1955 and last model, in 2002. Beautiful of formerly Their collection gathers also rare cars like Cord, the Auburn ones or untraceable Delahaye, of the vehicles built in first half of the XXe century. Delahaye 1947 of Demers was sold 20 000 $, a price exorbitant at the time "These are vehicles that only the kings and the princes could treat to, from where the very small quantities which were produced", explains Roger Demers. "Cord 1936, it is the first car with retractable headlights, headlights of fog and a traction front! It is monocoque, has a semi-automatic transmission and even a speed regulator (cruise control)! "it continues. Several of these former manufacturers of cars are disappeared little after the depression "It was sold five million cars per annum in 1929 and this figure passed to a million only in 1930! Moreover, to incite people to rather buy new cars than worn, Henry Ford bought the old cars and made them destroy! It is for that which it remains about it if little today ", indicates Michel Demers. And that to say famous Dino Ferrari manufactured at the request of the big shot of the company, Enzo Ferrari, following the death of his/her son Dino. "It is the most required Ferrari in the world, since only 22 specimens were produced, because Dino is deceased at the 22 years age. It was modelled on the body of a woman, because Dino would have died because of a woman ", explains Roger Demers. The Demers family also has a specimen of famous Ferrari F40, the last manufactured before the death of Enzo Ferrari, a car which detailed 350 000 $ but of which all the specimens were sold in advance, so that each one had a value of 1 million $ near the collectors as of its exit of the factory. Jean-Paul Riopelle the Demers brothers also lengthened the green tickets to acquire 3 of the 10 cars having belonged to the famous painter Jean-Paul Riopelle, at the time of their setting on sale in 2003, whose its famous Bugatti. "Riopelle was a visionary! You go account that 8 of its 10 cars appear among most beautiful of the world? "Michel Demers Connects. Next "the?uvre of art" that Demers wish to acquire is a J220 Jaguar, a small jewel of vehicle whose only 270 specimens were manufactured "We let us appreciate the beautiful cars! And how to know if a car is beautiful? It is simple: one makes it look with a child ", concludes Roger Demers.
We're still waiting for the "million $$ Ferrari in Cobourg" to show up. Watch out for prolific 360 sightings in Cobourg!
