Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Ferrari F40 vs. Porsche 959....

[Hans E. Hansen (FList]

Altho I'm sure there may have been grey market 288's, I believe that some
were "official" imports.  Ron Tonkin - who is the Ferrari dealer in
Portland - got his thru normal channels.  I think every dealer was offered
at least one.  Ron used to drive his around town quite a bit back in
the day when it was new.

Hans.

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Doug and Terri Anderson <dnt [at] 
dock.net>wrote:

> Allegedly, the 288 GTO was never meant to reach the USofA shore line.  BUT
> that said, you can bet they did.  All of them needed to be certified and
> one
> such certifier was Amerispec.  There is a classic picture showing 10 or so
> red GTOs all lined up in the snow with AMERISPEC on the poster.
>
> I have seen several.  One such car was at Fantasy Junction, Emeryville, CA,
> in the early 90s.  Smacked up.  Seems the owner took it to his tech for a
> biennial tune up and said tech took it and his friend for a road toast, uh,
> test.  Got on it coming out of a turn and the turbos kicked in - ZOWW -
> flipped 180 and down an embankment and through a fence and telephone pole.
>
> Subsequently fixed up and sold.  I have pictures (film type) of it.  No SN.
>
> One of the current F1 drivers had one - but sold it.  Why?  Too
> unpredictable and too expensive.  Ummm, F1 driver + too unpredictable + too
> expensive.  Heck - sounds like a women to me.
> heh heh
>
> DOUG
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