Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Now Ferrari Daytonas!

[Alexander Ishii (alexishii]

Hi Rob,

> Did you subscribe to the Ferrari Market Letter?

Yup.  Vetted many cars with Cathy, and contributed reports on at least twice
as many...

> Go to every car show?

Even some that I had to fly to... :)

> I was 
> once told every car is for sale its just the price that is the determining
> factor!

Well, like I said, in my reply to Clyde, I don't have infinite funds to
throw around... :)

> BTW MIchael Sheehan has several Daytonas for sale on his website:

I actually was chatting a lot with Mike at one point about various cars.
Made some offers, but never actually closed on anything.  The fact of the
matter is that Mike has enough inventory (and no inventory costs) that allow
him the luxury of always trying to get top-dollar for any given car, and I'm
not so interested in paying top-dollar for anything that I purchase... :)

> I do know one thing he knows his Ferraris.

I would agree.

One thing that I will add though is that this fact ultimately made me very
disinclined to cut Mike any slack when it came some something being "not
quite right" about a car...

> I do have a buddy that had a Daytona and some guy kept bugging him to sell so
> bad he sold the car for more than he thought it was worth.

Perhaps there something about that particular example that had the buyer
really intrigued; i.e., could well be that the car was worth more to that
buyer than it would be to someone who was just looking for a car that
happened to be in that condition.

I've done some purchases like that; seller thought I was crazy, but I was
just thrilled that I got the example... :)

    -- Alex