Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Value of Ferrari Luggage for 512TR

[Britt2Asa (Britt2Asa]

Yep,

Its a fallacy and makes no sense....so why do I want it? Maybe its the dream 
of living the way the car was designed, crossing Europe in a big GT 
Ferrari....Still you are right, I would most likely use duffel bags which are 
lighter 
and easier to jam in everywhere!

Britt

> Howdy, Britt! 
> 
> Great topic.  I've always wondered about the fallacy of the custom fitted
> luggage.  Aside from a few cocoa puffs like SteveJ, who really uses these
> things?  One pays an arm and a leg for them, but using them results in
> scuffing and wear (that's what luggage is for), that invariably diminishes
> the value of the luggage.  So is it worth a few hundred dollars in
> depreciation to use heavy, bulky leather luggage (about which you will
> inevitably worry)?  Or just continue to use the standard ballastic nylon
> overnight bags that you already use and about which you must give not a whit
> of concern?
> 
> Alternatively, you buy the luggage, wrap it in plastic and store it in the
> dark confines of the back closet, never to see the light of day until you
> sell the car and then the luggage.  Even assuming that you can sell it for
> the price you paid, is that worth the opportunity cost of your investment
> (e.g., what you would have earned had you invested it elsewhere), solely for
> the self-satisfaction of knowing that you are in possession of the matching
> luggage?
> 
> I guess this is why I'm also mystified of the totemic-allure of sports
> memorabilia (though, admittedly, had I there wherewithal, I too would own a
> Senna helmet).
> 
> Vty,
> 
> --Dennis
> 
> (with a complete 355 tool kit wrapped in plastic in the closet, and an
> actual, functional, self-assembled tool kit in a canvas bag in the trunk)
> 
> 



BR in the UK
1986 328GTS (LHD 89,940km) Died August 19, 2006 Shrewsbury UK
1980 400i (RHD 72,000 miles)
Searching for the right 512TR
2003 BMW 530d
1991 Alfa Spider S4