I was bored yesterday so I decided to see what was out there on the web for the 348/55 in terms of wheels using the Wayback Machine. Obviously, google doesn’t work so I had to go from memory. Here’s Image Unavailable, Please Login what I found.. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Sent from my iPhone using FerrariChat
Koenig was suggesting a WIDE setup. And that wasn’t even for their F48 widebody, that was for the standard car. Sent from my iPhone using FerrariChat
I will scan the brochure later, but Tecnomagnesio had some fitments for Ferraris back then too. They are my favorite wheel company, so much innovation and yet largely unknown. Image Unavailable, Please Login
[We open to a conference room with “marketing” etched on the glass entrance] Ok, ok……. Here’s the cover idea…. <snorts two pounds of cocaine> theres an elegant lady - a Beverly Hills type - and she’s walking… get this… <snorts another pound of cocaine> your wheels on a leash. Like dogs! Get it? Sent from my iPhone using FerrariChat
That’s a hysterical I thought the same thing when I saw that add, I mean you can imagine the pitch lol.
Yeah, exactly! Their marketing was a little over the top, and they were really proud of their 1990s-era Finite Element Analysis drawings - but who else was manufacturing magnesium centerlock wheels at the time? I think what they really wanted to do was rally and race wheels, and the street wheels were sort of a necessary thing to pay the bills... In the '90s they also still manufactured their "historical" wheel line too, which was sand cast magnesium from molds they got when they acquired (or merged with) the wheel division of Campagnolo. So these were things like the Coffin-Spoke Stratos wheels, the Alfa Romeo GTA wheels, Ferrari 512 centerlocks, etc. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
