Hi JB,you going on the next run? That car for me is the perfect rally car,just look at how well BQ goes in his. and some arsehole rapes it.
I have chased that GTE at 120 ish on a country road with a few ups and downs and curves. When sorted a 250 GTE can go with a good driver. That carbie car you have only has half the # of cylinders necessary and was built NORTH of the Alps !! You need a 12 built SOUTH of the Alps with a little horsey on the grill. John
Just for you I've put the carbs on it.The mechanical injection is in a box already to go apart from the RSR injection pump which needs a 12k overhaul,it was cheaper to put the carbs on for the time being.
Back on topic. There comes a point when an "owner" becomes a custodian. Let us say I "own" Bottechelli's painting "The Birth of Venus". Does that really give me the right to start a BBQ with it ????? NO NO NO NO NO. Now of course a 250 GTE is NOT Bottechelli, BUT at some point people have a responsibility to preserve great art works from the past for the benefit of current and future generations. One of the great things I see when out with vintage V12 Ferrari owners is when some guy with his child comes along and an owner allows the child to sit in the drivers seat and dad takes a photo. Priceless. Absolutely pricesless. Now Rob. You still need a V!2 with carbs and a prancing horsey on the grill. A car made in Maranello NOT Zuffenhausen !!! AND 12 cylinders . And yes I will probably be on the next FERRARI carb drive. Now if you turn up with a 917K in Gulf colours I giuess we can make an exception !! John
GTO Engineering in the UK, say they can build a new V12 engine from scratch, i would have thought that would have been a good option and you get a brand new engine!! http://www.gtoengineering.com/index.php Grant
Good morning. Julio called me the other day when he found out how his much beloved 250 did end. I know the car well because we restored the engine and retrimmed that car for Julio. And last year I called him from Peeble to tell him I was seating on "his" car and that if he wanted to buy it back. And now this. That was a LOVELY car, all you can look for. It´s incredible. Very, very sad.
This may be a differing opinion than all of you, but if a person owns a Botticelli painting, they are free to do what they wish with it. If they want to paint over it with crayons or light it on fire, thats their choice. Is it the best thing for humanity? Of course not. Does that mean anything to some people? nope. Hopefully museums or true art lovers find these types of owners before they ruin this art, and offer them enough money to get them to sell it, not mess it up. As for this car, as sacrilegious as it may be, I'd buy it, slap a modular Ford V8 in there, and drive the snot out of it.
THAT is the Point ! Money does NOT allow you anything to do, it gives you only responsibility to do NOT things like that. Creating a new Engine (numbers free) costs about 160K USD at Maranello and takes a year. btw the new engines are rubbish (sorry). Killing an GTE costs only 50K USD and the killer has a good runnig engine for his swb. BUT: If he has as much money as they told, WHY killing this very nice example for only the difference of 110K USD ???
Ok Guys, brace yourselves. I am reading a book that was just published a few weeks ago called The Ferrari Phenomenon, in the book they reference that Automobile Magazine has reported that Steve Moal is about to build another Ferrari based hot road. A 32 Ford-Style roadster that will make use of a 250 GTE 3.0 Colombo V12. What are the odds its not using THIS car's engine, especially since Moal is also located in California.
Any thoughts as to what the car is worth in it's current state? The purists would probably hate me but I would love to buy this car and install a 550 engine/trans.
here's the previous effort, from the Moal website. Talk about pointless, a light, powerful and charismatic engine in a crude, ill-handling solid axle 32 Ford chassis. When did the world of hot-rodding ever intersect with Ferrari GT cars? Image Unavailable, Please Login