Ferrari Mailing List: Re: 400i manual

[Michael James (cavallino_rapante]

Yes, there are 5-speeds out there - rare, but if people-who-know find one, they 
buy it.  
 
The Autos, I believe, are Turbo Hydromatics or some-such GM Tranny.  The 
manuals are ZF?  There was a Lister, back-in-the-day, from the NY area 
(Benjamin Kao comes to mind???  Worked for Goldman Sachs and had a Biology 
Degree from Harvard?) who had one.  Lashdeep may remember him?  VERY nice car.  
Drove that car to Montreal for the F1 Gathering on Peel Street, there were 
videos of Ben on the web somewhere of his manual 400i spanking 308s in 
stoplight races....Ben carrying three/four people in the car and leaving 
single-passenger QVs in his rearview easily.  That V-12 could move.....
 
Manual 412s are even rarer, but all were Grey-Market.
 
M
 


--- On Wed, 12/3/08, E M <pokiebaron [at] gmail.com> wrote:

From: E M <pokiebaron [at] gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] 400i manual
To: "Michael" <Cavallino_Rapante [at] yahoo.com>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 5:57 PM

Not sure about the US, but there are 5 speeds here in Canada.

Ed
911SC

2008/12/3 LtWacko <ltwacko [at] aol.com>

> Are there any stateside 400/400i/412's stateside that are manual?  I
have
> always been intrigued but only come across the automatics.  If I read
> correctly, all the autoboxes are GM 3-speeds?  Can they be upgraded,
swapped
> or improved?  Could a vette 6-speed be dropped in?  Of course anything can
> be done with the right amount of money but if it's a GM part, the
> possibilities seem enticing.  Even a better autobox makes sense to make
> better use of the powerplant.
>
> Rodney
> Hey, I'm in trouble already.  Why not get into more?
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