Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Ferrari 250 GT SWB Chassis# 2639 , from bad to worst.

[Doug and Terri Anderson (dnt]

>>Britt rhetorically asks “ . . . and builds it in Maranello is the car "less" of a Ferrari. . .”

 

Um, No.  But I wouldn’t fathom a guess on the Ferrari’s final value.

 

I believe that it all depends – it depends on that car’s overall collectability   Is it one of two or three Ferrari types in the world with Pebble Beach or Amelia Island blue ribbon credentials or a little 1979 308 GTS - - - - that was THE very car on show 1 of the Magnum P.I. series.  If so, I would do everything I could to keep the original motor.  Don’t touch.

 

Those should be preserved in running order.  Unless there is historically reasons and if the original engines are junk, for what ever reason, re-cast ‘em.

 

Unless Maranello cuts a deal with a Chinese foundry in Xiangshanxizhe, Ningbo City Zhejiang Province, I think I would keep the original motor.

 

Gordian Knot, eh?

 

DOUG

Our F1 TAG Turbo engine has two wins on it both Alain Prost at Imola.  What makes one of the wins a heartbreaker is after winning – he was a few pounds light and DQ’d.  Imagine that. I won’t repaint it or clean it.  It has tags and hand written notes on it that I am trying to preserve – nearly 30years is hard on a Magic Marker.

 

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From: Britt2Asa [at] aol.com [mailto:Britt2Asa [at] aol.com]
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 6:06 AM
To: DOUG
Cc: ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Ferrari 250 GT SWB Chassis# 2639 , from bad to worst.

 

It is an interesting question isn't it? If the Ferrari factory recasts a motor and builds it in Maranello is the car "less" of a Ferrari than one with the original engine? Its made by the same company (maybe by the same people, I've been to the factory several times and there are some real old timers there), same methods, same alloys; heck a lot of these cars may have had an engine failure early on and had a new engine made under warranty. Ferrari has the same plans and they designed the thing after all.

 

Is the car less of a car? Its not like the engine was made in China after all. I know that to some people it would matter, to me it doesn't if it is a Ferrari made engine, but what do you guys think?

 

Britt

 

BR in the UK
1986 328GTS (LHD 89,940km) Died August 19, 2006 Shrewsbury UK
1980 400i (RHD 74,000 miles)
Searching for the right 512TR
1997 Fiat Barchetta
1985 Bertone X1/9
2003 BMW 530d
1991 Alfa Spider S4 LHD
1993 Alfa Spider S4 LHD
2010 BMW 320d

 

In a message dated 21/10/2011 00:56:17 GMT Daylight Time, FList [at] hanshansen.org writes:

It apparently isn't even that expensive.  A couple of years
ago, there was a guy on FChat who purchased an otherwise
nice 275GTB that was missing the engine.  He eventually
found the appropriate type of engine, but it needed some
serious work.  The Classiche dept in Maranello (or is that
Milano?  -jk- :) offered to cast and machine a new one, 
and much to his surprise, it was cost competitive to buying
and overhauling an old one.  And, yes, the new one got
matching serial #s.

Hans.

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Brian E. Buxton <BrianBuxton [at] buxtonmotorsports.com> wrote:

Ferrari makes them again!  All it takes is $$

B

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