Ferrari Mailing List: Re: 400i manual

[Brian Keegan (bks281]

All 400's and 412's were grey market cars. The GM auto trans was a Turbo 400.> 
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 17:29:23 -0800> From: cavallino_rapante [at] yahoo.com> 
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] 400i manual> CC: ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com> To: 
bks281 [at] hotmail.com> > 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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