Ferrari Mailing List: Re: TestaRossa

[Mike Fleischer (themightytoe]

I apologize to those who own one...

Man I just can not feel the Ferrari love for that car.  Its so ugly.  It 
makes me recall the old Bricklin kit cars from the 70's, a cross between 
that and a Lotus Esprit, but not the good aspects of either...  I'm sure 
they sound nice and are fun to drive, I just would not be able to get 
past looking at it before opening the driver door...  MHO

Now the new Italia, so far from the pics, that thing is beautiful.  
First Ferrari that was drool worthy to me in a long time (last one was 
probably the F355, and before that the F40, 328, 512BBi, and so on), the 
others are lookers, but those ones (as far as modern F cars go) stand 
out to me.  Also any F car with the engine up front is a waste of time 
also.   There I said it.  Seriously, so what if the 1950's and 60's cars 
were front engine?  Those are not even in the same league as anything 
modern from Maranello.   And I will never ever get the Daytona's 
popularity, to me its just not that pretty.  Miami vice did much better 
with the TR than that Daytona spider.

Nomex is on,



Robert W. Garven Jr. wrote:
> this is a better car
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> http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200376538978&viewitem=&sspagename=ADME%3AB%3ASS%3AUS%3A1123#ht_500wt_1182
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> Robert W. Garven Jr.
> rgarven [at] gmail.com
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>   "The Ferrari is a dream - people dream of owning this special  
> vehicle and for most people it will remain a dream apart from for  
> those lucky few". Enzo Ferrari
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> On Aug 24, 2009, at 10:43 AM, philville dejazzd.com wrote:
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>   
> >   Larry
> >   Because the Testa Rossas are Ferraris, I love them, I do not
> >   particularly like them, and, if you look at all iterations of TR  
> > from
> >   the mid 80's to 1994 there are over 10,000 of them.....needless to  
> > say
> >   this has some impact on the pricing.
> >   Also in these days of unstable economics there is a tremendous
> >   amount of deferred maintenance taking place and the TRs are VERY
> >   expensive to play catch up with.
> >
> >   Having said all of this, I have an 86 TR on my web site, it suffers
> >   from
> >   (Percieved defferred maintenance) ( yes it needs a belt serv.). it  
> > has
> >   been owner maintained since 1993/4....every time I see the car and
> >   think about what it represents and what it can be owned for all  
> > done,
> >   I ask my self why not just buy it as my long term Ferrari and,
> >
> >   1) I do not like black cars
> >   2) I do not have a burning desire to have a TR
> >   3) There is no way in Hell that I can justify the cost right now
> >   4) I need it like another head
> >
> >   But when I look at the pics and think about what this car  
> > represents,
> >   I remind myself why I may do it any way. Besides, it is my opinion
> >   that over the long haul they will turn out to be very good  
> > investments
> >   esp. if you value your time/interests as being part of a return.
> >   Phil
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: LarryT <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
> >   Date: Monday, August 24, 2009 1:27 pm
> >   Subject: [Ferrari] TestaRossa
> >   To: Phil Tegtmeier <philville [at] dejazzd.com>
> >   Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
> >     
> > >    I came across this '88 TestaRossa in a
> > > "Classic Cars" Autotrader paper showing a nice '88 TestaRossa
> > > with 24k miles  with a price of $49K.
> > > That's seems to be a low price for such a supercar.  For
> > > the cost of a tricked out SUV people could have a true
> > > Supercar.  I know those are different markets but still,
> > > what a deal!
> > >
> > > http://www.gullwingmotorcars.com/inv.php?action=display&autoID=710
> > >
> > >    Or maybe my understanding of the market
> > > prices of these classic Ferrari's is overstated?
> > >
> > > Later ya'll -
> > > Larry
> > > .
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