Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Spec-ing Our A New Ferrari Order [Ferrari Digest, Vol 26, Issue...

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In a message dated 9/21/2008 8:24:39 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
flatcrank [at] gmail.com writes:
 
Thanks for the idea -- I don't know  why I didn't think of it, but  I'll 
pursue this with the dealer this  
week and see what's  possibleI

 
If you do it, let me know how it comes out.
 
I've become a real believer in due diligence when making large  investments, 
and a Ferrari (regardless of income at least unless you are Claus  von Bulow 
or Donald Trump) is a large at least expenditure if not an investment  and that 
means going to see the folks that will be making them. At least you  won't be 
looking at samples and paint chips, you will see how the options  actually 
look and feel.
 
Just as an aside, since I have been living (actually just domiciled but  that 
is sour grapes for a different not)here in Bowling Green you would be  
surprised how many times I've made arrangements for friends to visit the  
Corvette 
plant here and have some "face time" at the museum with actual cars  that have 
been ordered by others, looking at how interior and exterior colors  actually 
look, and how the dash layout with things like the navigation system  works. 
Several have actually taken the "museum delivery" option and come back to  
physically pick up their car, and also end up talking with folks who are in the 
 
same place they were before actually spec'ing out their car and placing the  
order.
 
Incidentally, we have a friend here who took out a second on his house to  by 
a Ford GT40. Really loved the car, but family (not wife type family but  
biological family) problems came up about 2 yrs later and he decided to sell it 
 
and use the money elsewhere. When it all shook out, he was out only about the  
cost of the sales tax when he sold it. Pretty reasonable cost for driving  
something you really want to drive and enjoy. 
 
I have way too many cars and I'm strained to even put 1k mi. on each of  them 
(some years I don't even average that with total mileage) but I want them,  I 
enjoy the time I spend with them and I, not the bank, own them. There  aren't 
very many of us (in relative terms) who can even say that they have owned  
and driven any Ferrari, let alone a new one. I'm afraid I'm going to have to do 
 
it vicariously through your postings to the Ferrari list, at least for now, 
but  that isn't bad.
 
I'll stand by my 2cents input. Go see what you are really buying, have fun  
doing it, and owning the car. I'd personally much rather die having owned a  
Ferrari than to wonder why I never did and kept the money in the market,  
particularly in these tenuous times.
 
Dr. Steve
 
1964 Rolls  Royce Silver Cloud III...........1975 Pontiac GV Conv.
1980 MB  450SL..................................1982 RR Corniche
1985 MB 280 GE  G-Wagen................. 1985 GMC Brigadier 20 Ton 
Winch/Wrecker
1988 Rolls  Royce Silver Spur................1990 Cadillac "Eagle" Hearse
1994 F-350  Powerstroke 4x4................1995 Ferrari 348 Spyder
1996 Bronco  ......................................2000 Lincoln Town Car
2004  Excursion...................................(+ Audrey's 2x MB's)
and  a
1976 Fire Truck...................................HAHN, WARNER &  SWASEY- 
DUPLEX 
DIVISION  HOWE  APPARTUS . MODEL #R400 FIRE  TRUCK w/a 100' Tower


Dr. Stephen B. Spies, CES,  CFI
Director, Forensic Sciences Laboratory
Explosives Engineering  Technologies
lex talionis
Fides tamen Quin

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