Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Got myself a Unicorn

[clyde romero (clyderomerof4]

Oh that was a low blow you DOG!

No Ferrari for you!!!! (aka soup NAZI)


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From: Ferrari <ferrari-bounces+clyderomerof4=gmail.com [at] ferrarilist.com> On 
Behalf Of JOHN ASHBURNE via Ferrari
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2022 2:22 PM
To: Clyde <Clyderomerof4 [at] gmail.com>
Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Got myself a Unicorn

That is awesome!  Great find!  Leave it to Clyde to have “Beaver” carpets!

John

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> On Jan 21, 2022, at 1:44 PM, BRITT ROTHMAN via Ferrari <ferrari [at] 
> ferrarilist.com> wrote:
>
> Ok guys,
> As you know I bought Clyde’s car last summer after waiting 20 years for him 
> to sell it to me. I knew the price would be fair and the car would be well 
> maintained ( and it is ) but I also knew it was a a 28 years old used car. 
> When I asked clyde what was wrong with it he said “ Well the carpeting looks 
> like it was torn from a Vietnam cat house but I’m a driver not a show car 
> person” and yeah the carpet looks every bit of a 28 year old 111,000 mile 
> car. Now this is my third Ferrari and I want my cars to look nice. I’m not 
> afraid of doing some work and I knew that recarpeting is possible and can 
> make a huge difference in the feel of an interior. I also knew that oem 
> Ferrari carpet is pretty good stuff. When I redid my 400i in 2002-2003 I 
> found the last oem carpet in existence for a 400i in a warehouse in London. 
> It made a huge difference to the interior at the time.
>
> So I looked around, found some suppliers of carpet for a 512tr and spoke to 
> Brian Keegan who recommended somebody out in CA who sent me samples. 
> Contacted a bunch of people about samples, I needed to keep the same colour 
> “Beaver” since the door panels have carpet on them and wanted the same 
> quality. I was doing this when 2 Sundays ago I was messing on the internet 
> and found a section of Marenello Spares website I hadn’t seen before. In the 
> “normal” part of the website, all the carpet is NLA but I found a reference 
> to a set for the 512tr in the colour “Beaver” and apparently good for the 
> assembly number of my car. And it was LHD.
> The next day I called them and they checked the warehouse and sure enough, 
> although the computers said “No” they had the last carpet set, OEM Ferrari in 
> existence for my car sitting for 28 years in the warehouse getting dusty. It 
> cost a fortune to ship and import and to buy but I got it. An OEM Ferrari 
> carpet set with all the fittings just like when new. And it’s going in the 
> car. If you have read this far you can guess how pleased i am right now! Hope 
> the pictures come through.


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