Ferrari Mailing List: Re: 308GTR I am in love again!

[Adam Green (FlatCrank]

Some classic Ferraris are a joy to behold and some of them were seminal achievements in automotive design.  The most expensive of them as they cross the auction block from season to season are just a cruel joke on the ultra rich, and a sad fate for machines and the drivers robbed of the opportunity to experience something which I've taken almost for granted over the last half century or so.

These speculators volley their overpriced baubles back and forth between them for millions in profits that amount to me finding a $100 bill left behind in the kitchen utility "stuff" drawer.  They rejoice in owning one or more of every exclusively rare marque and stuff them away under blankets in morgues, perhaps never to see the light of day, let alone strain against gravity and inertia and the wind, and test the limits of courage versus traction, daring versus senses and skill.

If someone had the sense to buy a 40 circa 2001 when they were under $200K for a very good example, then drove it and fixed it as it broke, they are wiser than the average brown bear.  If someone bought any given future collectible and sold it for a randomly lucky profit on the whim of the market, they're about as ignorant as it gets.  The same is true for most practical things that the art world have usurped.  Wine is the only exception I have in mind for the public consumer and self-directed retail investor, trader and consumer.  You can buy cases of plonk at $10-100/bottle, enjoy a couple, keep the great ones and drink them to the last drop, while trading back the mediocre and even the good ones for their appreciated value, then plow the profits back into the process to literally drink top shelf grape which would ordinarily be unrealistic to uncork at $300-3000/bottle.  Cars don't work this way unless you're part of the industry and hence a parasitic burden on the transactions which (in my not so humble) should occur directly between the hands of owners, with no intermediaries, no middlemen.  But here we are -- all the great cars are owned (99.9% of the time) by people who don't know how to open the engine cover, let alone drive the car and enjoy the machine for its originally intended purpose.

Adam

On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Robert W. Garven Jr. <rgarven [at] gmail.com> wrote:

Friends,

Once again this is my standard for beauty sorry for reposting over and over again!

Rob

Robert W. Garven Jr.

rgarven [at] gmail.com

 "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

On Jun 22, 2014, at 4:43 AM, Clyde Romero <clyderomerof4 [at] bellsouth.net> wrote:

This cars grill looks like it has a black mouth piece stuck in it !

I mean really they took the classic PINN lines and butchered it.

In victory you deserve Champagne

In defeat you need it!

Scars are Tattoos with better stories !

Clyde Romero

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On Jun 21, 2014, at 8:53 PM, Gavin <gavinnz [at] xtra.co.nz> wrote:

http://classiccarhunter.com/2008/09/unique-gem-1978-ferrari-308-cabriolet/


On 22/06/2014 12:32 p.m., Gavin wrote:

Different car I think...

The one in the book has back rear hood vents and a different cover for the soft top....

And normal wheels...

But that's the general idea.

Regards

Gavin

\On 22/06/2014 12:05 p.m., A.J. wrote:

This it?

http://www.ferrari-forever.com/images/308%20GTS%20Lorenz%20&%20Rankl.jpg

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