Be careful what you wish for! Come to Vegas, we Ferrari guys here will hook you up if thats what you want you'll be married before you leave in a weekend! Hooters here has been good to me-not for wife material though!
This Saturday their is The festival of Lights Car Show here, some will be showing our cars as its limited to 12 Ferraris, we will have events after as usual. The following weekend a cocktail party at a local restaurant here. You can check out the events at http://www.ferraricluboflasvegas.com If you want to come out PM me and we can make arrangements for you to hook up with us or just show up, the cocktail party needs to be RSVP I believe.
You know people often bring up the "on your death bed regret" thing. I surely hope on my deathbed I'm not regretting anything about material possessions; I hope thoughts of material possessions would be no where in sight. I've taken care of a lot of people as they die and lack of possessions is not what they regret, rather lack of one sort of human interaction or other is the more usual issue.
Hell, I can get you a wife, kids, mistress, a girlfriend, and a triple PhD Harvard professor Lawyer Brother!!!!!!! Heck you can even have one of my balls to help with more kids!!!! I will even volunteer to make sure the females are all pregnant so you can have more kids sooner rather than later!! Check the profile for a pic!!!
I couldn't agree more with someone on this thread saying 'if you can't afford to pay cash for it then you probably shouldn't own it' I think this is correct for newer cars not those rare, collectable, investment typed of car. If you have fulfilled other neccessities in life: home, cars, investment portfolio, college funds then you are ready to own one if your surplus cash permit. My advice is work hard, get your priorities in order and you yourself will know whether or when you can afford a Ferrari.
It's my Dad's birthday this weekend and I will be in Costa Rica the next, But after that I think the 348 needs a road trip!! Are you in Jerry? Rick
I couldn't agree more, life is too short to worry about most things. Achieve all the necessities fast and then live your life. That's the way to go rather than regretting one day 20 years from now about what you should have done.
First, I own a 360 Modena. I will get a 430 When the Time is right. The 360 is mine. I earned it legally and nobody can say otherwise. I am not a rich man. I am, in fact, a retired Army officer. I am 61 years old. This is my second Ferrari. It is not my second sports car. I have owned four classic Corvettes, a Jaguar XKE, two Lotuses, and a DeTomaso Pantera. My first Ferrari was a '64 Lusso which I restored and kept for thirty years. How did I do this? First, I finished my education(through Masters). Then, I worked my buns off. All the while I saved my money and allocated my savings. I provided for my son's college (He is a Civil Engineer). I set my prioroties. I never owned a pair of Nikes or a pair of designer jeans. I have had two boats, one a motor yacht. I saved my inheritence. I don't waste-ever. Nobody can ever take away your education or your honor. I never forgot that. Did anybody give me anything-no! Did I ever cheat or do anything illegal-no. Am I bragging-damn right. However, my young friends, you can do all this also. BUT, you can't have it all. Decide what you want, set your sights on it and, just do it! The rest of the trivial stuff just is not worth it. Everything you do, do one at a time and enjoy each for its own sake. I may be done by this method. I'm 61. Are you done? How old are you? What a shame.
Before I buy one, I would want to be able to easily afford the true costs of an F-car. I would have to have a ton of cash burning in my pocket first. Well ok, a ton of $1 bills is only about a million dollars, so maybe a few tons... How much disposable money as a multiple of the car price did you owners have when you bought your car? 5? 10? 100? Billionaire?
i think it's different for everyone, Doc... Some people will regret the lack of desired human interaction; others will regret other stuff... It really all depends on the individual, i think...
lol... that's one of the more rediculus ones I've seen. It's just down right funny... I could imagine the guy making the webpage now... "Hmmmm... how should I make it look even remotely believable...hmmmm."
Some of us are drug dealers, pimps, bank robbers and thieves i thought you knew that? I own a Ferrari because i'm part of the mob wink wink.
Perhaps the sad and misguided jerks that go around presuming (and wrongly) that all ferrari owners are spoilt millionaires should take the time and trouble to actually ask the guy they see in the car what sort of money they've got . They might actually be shocked to hear that the majority have worked hard, gone without the luxuries in life (like holidays etc) and saved hard to buy their dream. These are usually the same guys that don't do much in the way of track days as they can't afford the repairs, but they went out and bought their dream ticket anyway and GOOD LUCK to them. It makes my blood boil to see and hear the whining and whinging from people that think the world owes them a living, and that they should be given all the things we 've strived for without getting off their fat lazy ar*es. Nobody has ever given me a damn thing in my life and I've never accepted any offer. Everything I've got I did by sheer hard work (100 hour weeks etc etc) and no one is going to make me feel guilty for owning A fantastic 456GT. You want it, then you, and only you can, make it happen!!
