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Re: 1988 Ferrari Testarossa | eBay
From: Peter Rychel (dino308gt4hotmail.com)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 20:45:29 -0800 (PST)

As I’ve mentioned before here on the F’List, another major difference are the seat belts. Canadian cars had regular old-fashioned three point types throughout production. Starting with the 1987 cars (I’m unsure at which S/N), the U.S. spec examples were fitted with the mouse-trap sliding seat belt system. I just checked Maranello Classic Parts in the UK and they do have the complete set-up available and in stock... Not cheap... As for the Canadian front grille:

 

https://www.ferrariparts.co.uk/part/ferrari/61547800

 

Peter

 

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From: Gary Reed
Sent: January 5, 2021 9:40 AM
To: Peter Rychel
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] 1988 Ferrari Testarossa | eBay

 

Very nice detective work!!  

 

I wasn't aware of all those differences between the USA and Canada Ferraris.

 

Cheers,

 

Gary

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Peter Rychel

To: Gary Reed

Sent: Monday, January 04, 2021 8:35 PM

Subject: Re: [Ferrari] 1988 Ferrari Testarossa | eBay

 

No kidding about misrepresentation.

 

Not a Euro car but a Canadian spec one.

 

Side marker lights are flush with the body work, indicating detents in the sheetmetal to accommodate them. That would be from the factory. Anybody importing one of these from outside of North America is not going to go that far and will just surface-mount the lights to the body. Euro market cars all had button side indicators in the area behind the front wheel arch and in front of the doors. If this car was from Europe, these lights would still be there (not cost-effective to remove, fill the holes up and paint).

 

Canadian-spec TRs, much like 328s had to have higher-rated impact shocks for the bumpers (5mph vs U.S. required 2mph). Thus, if you look closely at the front grille, the top slot is filled over with sheet metal (so, only three horizontal openings instead of the usual four). This is to cover the heavier-duty shocks and related structure. If you look at Canadian market 328s, they have body-colored boxes in the top corners of the grilles.

 

Euro TRs had plain rear bumpers with no rubber surrounds in the licence plate area. This car has the black bumper surround, featured on both U.S. and Canadian-market cars (again, hiding the bumper shocks and related structures).

 

Peter

 

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From: Clarence Romero Jr.
Sent: January 4, 2021 3:41 PM
To: PeterGT4
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] 1988 Ferrari Testarossa | eBay

 

Misrepresented car

It does not have airbags 

Talk about a time bomb

 

 

     RF4-4EVR

 

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Clyde Romero    

 

 

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