Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Now Ferrari Daytonas!

[Britt2Asa (Britt2Asa]

I accept that buying a Ferrari in the US is going to be different than in the UK. It's a smaller world over here and being active in the FOC I could pick up the phone and make 3 calls and find a car and somebody to trust. The world here is too small to have bad news and not have it get around. Talacrest, DK, MDS Services, could find a car from those guys easy enough. Could ask Nick Mason, Chris Evans, or any of a dozen less well known but wealthy knowledgeable people in the FOC who would point me in the right direction.

 

Couldn't afford a Ferrari when I lived in the US, found the scene over here much friendlier and better and more affordable. Hard to believe you couldn't make the same connections in the US to buy a car but then the US has always had Ferrari's on a much higher pedestal than Europe. 8-10 years ago a GOOD Daytona would fetch £80k. Nobody wanted them, everyone wanted a 360. Now a good Daytona fetches £180k. I remember thinking how cheap they were back in 2002........

 

Hhmmmm

 

 

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 22/10/2011 17:41:31 GMT Daylight Time, alexishii [at] mindspring.com writes:

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


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