Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Ultimate F40?

[Ric Rainbolt (ricrain]

I'm familiar with this car. I know the owner (or at least he was a 
prior owner, I think he may have sold it). He's the guy you can see 
driving the car. The track shown in the video is Motor Sports Ranch 
near Dallas. Also, I know the owner before him, who also had numerous 
Ferrari collectables including an F40 LM.

The car probably *is* 400 lbs lighter. It's not as fast as any LM or 
GTE, but it is faster than a "normal" F40, and much lighter than a 
US-spec F40. There are numerous differences in the construction vs 
production. It was one of two or three (I forget the number) 
pre-production prototypes.

It was for sale by Mike Sheehan, but I don't know if it sold or not.

RR

At 07:48 AM 3/16/2007, you wrote:
> Bah.  400 lbs lighter?  Methinks not.  Ferrari's claimed curb weights have
> always been, shall we say, sketchy.  So if a "regular" F40 is 2600 lbs, they
> actually removed 400 lbs by using thinner panels and magnesium bits in the
> engine?  No way.  As for the claim of it being the "ultimate F40", well the
> later F40 LMs/GTEs must surely deserve that title, no?  Which is not to say
> that this particular example is not unique and maybe even collectible for
> being a show car and prototype, but I doubt that it's that much more fun to
> drive than your run-of-the-mill F40.
>
> I'd be really interested, admittedly, in the real story as to how it got
> into private hands, given the history of the Buitoni family and Ferrari.
>
> Vty,
>
> --Dennis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fellippe Galletta [mailto:fellippe.galletta [at] gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 1:33 AM
> To: Dennis Liu
> Cc: The FerrariList
> Subject: [Ferrari] Ultimate F40?
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_6bPI0dTyk&mode=related&search=
>
> Prototype F40 with more power, less weight and other goodies..
>
> FG
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