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

[red5hilser (red5hilser]

Hey Britt: Yea, I've had the same dream since the early 1960's. Mine would be 
climbing the Stelvio Pass in my 250TDF, fitted luggage on the shelf behind 
us,?with my 'close' friend Eva Herzagova sitting beside me as navigator on our 
way to Oktoberfest in Munich?from the Italian Riviera. Ach, the good life.

Yer pal, stuck in Baja Arkansas instead, Ferrari Bubba


-----Original Message-----
From: Britt2Asa [at] aol.com
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Value of Ferrari Luggage for 512TR



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   
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