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Ferrari F40: The Last Enzo-Approved Legend · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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  As part of Ferrari Fridays, William Ross from the Exotic Car Marketplace
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  will be discussing all things Ferrari and interviewing people that live
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  and breathe the Ferrari brand.
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  Topics range from road cars to racing, drivers to owners, as well
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  as auctions, private sales, and trends in the collector market.
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  All right, and welcome back to the Ferrari marketplace.
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  I'm William Ross.
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  I'm your host, and I appreciate you guys, uh, checking out and, uh, listening.
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  I know it's been, I think it's almost been two months since
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  I've actually dropped a new one.
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  So my apologies for that, but I've been a little tied up doing a few other things.
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  I did some traveling and whatnot.
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  So, uh, trying to squeeze these things in was a little difficult.
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  So, Well, I mean, I probably could have done it, but
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  honestly, I'm just a bit lazy.
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  So didn't really get it all put together, but I got to get that all situated.
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  So now I'm back at home so I can start putting some more
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  of these out for you guys.
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  So today's episode, what we are going to talk about is probably, you know,
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  I know my one, I said about the GTO is probably my all time favorite for you.
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  Just, you know, and Hey, you know, I, I'm a child of, Hey, I was
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  born in 1970, but you know, in my teenage years, you know, obviously.
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  In the 80s, bedroom walls, whatnot, 288 GTO is what stuns me, but then
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  as we know, towards the end of the 80s, the venerable F40 came out.
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  So, it's almost a tie between the 288 GTO and the F40 as being my favorite Ferrari.
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  Now, you know, I like The thing I love about the 288 GTO is, I mean, it's, I
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  want to say understated, but you know, basically it is, it's the 308, 328, just
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  kind of beefed up, uh, obviously a lot better motor, everything like that to
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  it, I mean, it's not nowhere near, you know, derivative, what have you, what
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  you want to say, but you know, the F40 basically was built up, uh, basically
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  from scratch, you know, now the motor was actually taken from the 288 GTO
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  Evolution, but everything else was built up just for that specific car.
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  yeah, So let's kind of jump into how it became about so obviously as we
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  know the 280 GTO Ferrari created that vehicle and built the 272 of them But
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  what it was built for was to go group B rally now I don't know how many of
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  you out there the group B rally fans.
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  I'm a big one of it I love watching those videos from back then those guys
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  are absolutely nuts I should say gals too because there are some women also
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  racing very very well to Michelle Mouton was awesome But anyways, you know, they
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  built those cars For that rally series.
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  Well, as they basically got going to it, group B got the ax.
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  Well, in that time when it was getting close, when they built these is
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  they built the two 88 GTO evolution.
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  Now the motor they built in that car, um, had some, you know, better
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  turbos, whatnot, you know, it was a lot bigger motor, so to speak,
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  that was put in that car and they built the five of them for that.
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  And so, but then when Gooby got killed, they had no place to go with them.
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  So they're like, okay, what do we do?
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  We have this thing.
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  Well, basically it was all going to get, you know, binned and never seen again.
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  Well, one of the individuals at Ferrari says, well, hey, you know, since we have
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  this motor, why don't we do something along the lines of building a car
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  that celebrates our 40th anniversary?
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  So what they did was, is, you know, they Propose this idea and being that this is
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  actually the last car that Enzo Ferrari himself signed off on his signature to it.
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  As I guess everyone would say, you know, that's what kind
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  of gives it more of its aura.
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  It's nostalgia to it because of that fact of You know, it went basically from
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  that concept and idea to basically a road going car in 11, 11 months, some
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  say, some say 11, some say 13 months.
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  So I'll just say 11 to 13 months.
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  It was, it basically got designed the whole nine yards, it got
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  built and put together, stuff that motor in there and do it.
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  Now, if you know what the car is, well, you know, obviously it's all down to
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  about design, very aerodynamic, a lot of time in the wind tunnel, uh, to execute.
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  plus the fact is it was, first cars or the first c car to be able to go over
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  Which was never verified or never done, but that was always an argument and no
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  one was really going to go against Ferrari and Enzo themselves saying that's what was
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  going on, so they just kind of let it be.
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  But anyways, you know, the F40 getting built, you know, that thing is, is one
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  of the first cars to use carbon fiber.
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  So, you know, in essence, it's more, it's a carbon Kevlar mesh
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  weave that is used on the exterior and the body panels on that car.
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  So it's basically one of the first, the first car to utilize that type
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  of material, that concept for a car.
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  Now it still had a two frame chassis, but all the exterior
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  panels and all that were all done out of this carbon Kevlar material.
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  So if you own one today and you crash it, it's very, very expensive to fix.
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  Um, you know, and their main goal obviously for this car too was lightness.
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  So, they stuffed that 288 GTO Evoluzione motor in there.
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  Twin turbocharged cranks out about roughly the average is around 470 to
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  475 horsepower now Obviously as these things were built the various levels of
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  horsepower kind of fluctuated amongst the cars There was really no set one.
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  So that's just good for some, you know hand built Italian machinery
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  So, but I mean, you're still in that range, say between 470 and 480.
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  Let's just ballpark it in there.
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  But you know, and for that car, it's got tons of torque.
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  That's the other nice thing about this car.
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  It's got gobs and gods of torque.
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  It's got 456 foot pounds of torque.
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  So that thing gets up and goes like right now.
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  So it's a very, very fast car.
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  But the other advantage it has is it only weighs about 300, uh, 3000 pounds dry.
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  So.
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  I know 470 to 408 horsepower, these, this day and age, like, oh, that doesn't sound
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  like much, you know, Camry's getting close to 400 horsepower and all this crap.
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  Well, he got a car that only weighs about 3, 000 pounds, so, you know, you
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  got your horsepower to weight ratio there, so it's, it's very, very agile
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  in the fact that that thing can get up and get moving very, very quickly.
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  So, um, you know, and everything they kept in this car to keep the weight down.
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  They obviously, with the carbon Kevlar, uh, exterior body panels.
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  Uh, also to the minimalistic interior.
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  You know, every car built was the Rosso Corsa and also had red interior.
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  But, you know, interior wise everything was gone.
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  No, no carpeting.
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  Well, take that back.
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  There's no carpeting on the Forza, but there was carpeting on the dash.
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  Some people kind of fail to realize that or don't know that that
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  they actually carpeted the dash.
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  Why?
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  I don't know.
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  I'm not sure if it had to do with sun glare maybe or something,
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  but they did carpet the dash.
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  I mean, it's not like a thick blush carpet or anything like that.
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  But, It is a carpeted dash.
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  Um, it's not the mouse hair stuff that they used back in the day
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  along those lines in the older cars that used to have that.
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  Nowadays it's a nightmare to try and replace and get fixed.
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  Um, but it was a carpeted dash, but everything else is gone.
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  You know, everything is deleted.
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  I mean, No door handles.
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  All your door handles that get out of that car, it's basically, it's
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  a wire cable to get in or you yank on that to get out of the car.
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  So, you know, everything's out.
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  You know, this is just a pure driver's car.
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  You know, you're not going to sit there and jam the tunes and
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  go tooling around or anything.
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  No, it's all about that motor that's sitting right behind your head.
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  There's your music.
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  That's what you want to listen to.
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  So, getting that thing built and get up and going.
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  When this thing was revealed to the world, you know, they built this thing
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  pretty hush hush and obviously rather quickly, within basically a year.
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  You know, they bought it and revealed it to the world and immediately
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  people went bonkers for this car.
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  You know, it was just, you know, something, if you look at it, it
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  was something that was never seen.
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  You know, something like this for a road car was never really done before,
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  especially by a manufacturer like Ferrari.
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  You know, now I, I just.
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  Back then the main competitor like who they're going against or everyone pitted
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  it against was the 959 These are two totally completely different cars that
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  959 as everyone knows a tour de force Technologically, it's got all wheel drive
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  the computers everything like that, you know And even them selling those at the
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  four or five hundred thousand dollars They I think they were still they were
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  losing four or five hundred thousand dollars every car So basically I think
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  it cost them like one to one point two million To build each car, but then
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  they sold them, you know, basically half that price But it was a technological
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  exercise for him, but you know to German engineering down to the nth degree, you
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  know But then you got the Italian passion.
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  So two totally completely cars two completely different driving experiences
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  But anyways, this car got released to the public people just went absolutely
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  crazy Now the other fact was is, you know, this being basically the last car the
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  Enzo put his signature You know, it's two and stamped for approval to get produced
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  Speculators, everyone was going through the roof in regards to getting their
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  hands on them and flipping them and doing everything so all these things happened.
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  Now, the original allotment, they were only going to build 400 units of this
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  car, but due to demand and just, you know, everyone just absolutely going
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  nuts for the car, hey, let's build more.
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  So, that kind of upset some of the people that were first through the
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  door and it really upset a lot of speculators, but anyway, if I care
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  about the speculators, cause You know, they're not very fond of people
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  buying their cars and flipping them.
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  They are not fond of that at all.
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  You know, as everyone knows, it's what it takes and what it entails for you
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  to be able to get on the buyers list, you know, to get in Ferrari's favor
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  in regards to getting access to all these new special cars over there.
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  Yeah, you don't flip these cars.
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  No, you don't give them, you don't sell build slots, you don't do any
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  of that, because as soon as you get that, even when you're done, you'll
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  never get offered another car again.
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  It's not like you go and get banned for 5, 10 years and then come back.
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  No.
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  Doesn't happen.
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  Um, they're stickler set.
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  You know, they're not hurting for people wanting to buy their
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  cars, so, it's next man up.
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  So, anyways, they built, ended up building up to 1, 315 of these cars.
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  And, obviously, that was over a production run of about 4 years.
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  So I mean, it's, you know, it's a nice run.
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  So, you know, you look at, was it about 300, you know, three, a little
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  over 300 cars a year they built.
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  Um, obviously the earlier cars, um, especially the ones that came over
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  here to us, you know, after 1990, they'd have Cadillac converters, but
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  you know, Euro spec and US spec cars are rather different in regards to
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  just how they drive everything, uh, the suspension, the whole nine yards.
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  Yes.
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  Obviously the mandates are required to make the car us homologated.
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  You know, really kind of kills things and that's what things I don't really like
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  about here in the United States in regards to cars that we get, you know, they're
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  so gentrified, so to speak, in regards to, you know, safety and everything
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  like that and all this, you know, if they just, you know, it's just obscene
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  way to get, you know, the cars that can get over there in Europe, you know, are
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  fantastic as compared to a lot of the cars we, you know, the cars we're able
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  to buy over here in the United States.
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  I mean, point in fact, the new M3 Touring.
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  I was telling someone the other day, you That, you know, I had a deposit already
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  and at the dealer, but they just told me it wasn't coming out of the States and I
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  told him, look here, take, take 500 bucks.
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  And if it does, by chance, then, hey, I want the first one, but it never did.
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  And, but they still had my 500 bucks.
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  It was like, I'm waiting to see, you never know.
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  Right?
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  So it's one of those gambles you take, but anyways, back to the F40.
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  Now.
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  Obviously with that many getting out there, they're going up,
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  but prices actually kind of held steady on those cars.
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  Um, and as obviously demand grew, price grew on these cars, you know,
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  you know, this is back in, you know, the 90s and spending like a million.
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  I know Nigel Mansell's F40 back then in the 90s sold for like 1.
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  5 million.
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  Now, that's a lot of money, but obviously having, you know, Nigel's name attached to
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  it or back to it, you know, had to do it.
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  Now, me, myself.
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  I'm not one to spend and pay extra for just because
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  someone who else owned the car.
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  I could care less.
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  Only thing I care about is that person who owned it, took care
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  of it, has all the records.
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  That's my biggest concern and that's what I want to keep an eye on.
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  That's what motivates me wanting to buy a car.
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  Not that so and so's ass sat in him.
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  I could care less.
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  You know, um, it does nothing for me.
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  You know, a lot of people out there, somebody out there does, you know,
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  does add value and people pay for it.
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  Why?
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  I don't know.
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  You know, it's just, to me, I just don't get it.
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  You know, there might be one or two cars out there that were owned by
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  someone that might mean something.
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  You know, maybe by Schumacher or by Senna, you know, someone on those lines.
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  But the thing is, you know, a lot of these guys that own those cars,
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  they're like four or five owners ago.
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  It wasn't like it just came out of their collection or anything along those lines.
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  No, it's way back.
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  So what's the point?
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  You know, I don't get it.
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  You know, and that's really too, like all these people paying all those gobs
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  of money for stuff that Steve McQueen owned, you know, I don't get it.
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  You know, now a couple of cool things.
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  You're like Paul Newman's Rolex.
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  Now that.
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  Sold what was that 15 20 million dollars Paul Newman's Rolex Daytona now that's
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  obscene money Just wear a watch, but you know what that name tied to it and
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  with the engraving that was on it Okay, you got something there, but still I
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  would have spent 20 million dollars.
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  That's just me I think I might be wrong if I'm wrong.
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  I apologize.
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  That's on me Just kind of want to I know it's some kind of obscene
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  amount of money But anyways, let's get back to our topic, right?
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  The F40.
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  So anyways, so they get out there and, you know, they're playing for these cars.
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  Hey, this is just a road going car.
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  That's all it was, you know, made for.
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  You know, they didn't have any plans to race this car.
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  They had no intent of racing this car.
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  Well, obviously, when you have a car that's got that much
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  capability, horsepower, light, people are going to go race it.
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  Hey, look at the McLaren F1.
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  Same thing.
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  Gordon Murray's like, hey, I don't plan on racing it.
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  But then what happened, they go race it.
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  And then first time out, they go out and they win Le Mans.
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  Basically with a stock car.
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  So, anyways, people started to clamor and wanted a race car and get to build it.
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  So, ends up doing is, they end up teaming up, uh, with the Bicolati
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  and they end up building the F40 LM, with LM standing for Le Mans.
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  So they built this car up and this thing, obviously, they stripped
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  out more weight somehow, somehow, somehow, some way they did.
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  But one of the big things is the motor.
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  They took that thing apart and rebuilt it.
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  They stuck on much larger IHI turbochargers and basically,
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  basically put it up to, I think it was almost 38 PSI on those things.
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  Where the road going standard stock ones were like 16 PSI.
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  So right there to tell you, so.
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  And it got it up there over 700 plus horsepower and there are
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  really no definitive numbers on torque, but let's just say the
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  torque was probably up there too.
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  But anyways, you know, they stepped it on, took that motor, reworked it,
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  and they said if they really unleashed it, you could probably get close to a
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  thousand horsepower with that motor.
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  Um, but anyways, normally just because of sanctions and whatnot
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  in the race series, they did it.
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  Obviously, you know, they get kind of, uh, restrained a bit.
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  So they built 19 of the Ferrari F40 LMs.
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  Now again, these, these were lighter, bigger motor and whatnot,
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  and these were just racing cars.
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  You know, but obviously it was derived from the streetcar.
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  So, just, you know, aesthetically, you know, if you're in the know, you can
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  tell the difference between the two, the wings, the wheels, everything like that.
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  But you know, just someone out there, they'll just know it's an F40.
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  I mean, you got that iconic rear wing.
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  I mean, that car right there and there, you know, many, many people just know, you
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  know, of F40 when they see it, they know that's a Ferrari, they know it's an F40.
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  So, Price wise let's talk about pricing on these cars now.
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  I'm my business is I deal in Ferrari So I'm kind of dealing price wise with
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  these cars on a pretty regular basis now I actually I mean, it doesn't sound like
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  that many only 1, 300 cars built, you know The LM side, you know that the 19 built
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  so they get up there in price now You see people jump around but I'll tell you right
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  now currently at this time day and age in July of 2022 You're probably in the 1.
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  8 to 2.
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  5 million dollar range for an F40.
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  Now, a lot of factors will play into that if it's class E certified.
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  Um, you know, mileage plays a big role in that, ownership.
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  Another big thing is original paint.
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  If it's got original paint on that car, then you're talking some good money.
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  Because when they built those things, they put on barely any paint.
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  Because again, about weight.
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  You know, it all boils down to, let's keep the weight off.
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  The ones where, you know, you can see the exposed, basically
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  carbon fiber, uh, Kevlar weave.
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  Um, you know, those things are worth a lot more money just because of that fact.
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  Um, you know, obviously cars throughout time, you know, things happen to them.
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  But if you can come across the original paint one, plexiglass slide side window
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  one too, you're going to pay top dollar.
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  You're going to be in that 2.
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  5 million plus range.
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  You know, and again, hey, I'm always telling someone
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  when I'm working with them.
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  For what they're looking for, they're looking for the pay for the best
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  thing that you can afford, you know, what's your intent with this car, you
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  know, people aren't going to be going on, you know, country slogs and this
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  thing driving across country or going for 10, 12 hour jaunts in these cars.
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  These are, you know, people use these as a weekend toy.
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  They're gonna go out for an hour to go to a cars and coffee, go
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  to something along like that.
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  You know, unfortunately, you know, they don't get exercise the way they should.
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  But the other side of it is to is The people that, a lot of these people
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  that have these things don't have the capability to handle all that power
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  and drive it, so God forbid they crash it because that's just, ugh, there's
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  some repair bills you don't want.
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  So, you know, the other fact too is take into account when you buy this car, be
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  aware of the fact of maintenance and what it takes to keep these cars road going.
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  You know, they have a lot of maintenance that needs to be done,
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  just, they get timed out, so to speak.
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  You know, like the fuel bladder, it's every five years that that
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  thing's got to be replaced.
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  Uh, that's a very, very Large undertaking just to do that, you know, all your
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  rubber bushings, everything in that car, especially if you're not driving
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  all that much, getting the fluids going through it and, you know, getting that
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  thing exercised to stuff just starts getting dry, gets brittle, you know,
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  that that's one of the things too, is when you have cars like that, you need to
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  drive them, you know, that's what it is.
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  It's a car, you know, these cars need to be driven.
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  I'm not saying you need to drive 50, 000 miles a year or something like that, but
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  take it out a couple of times a month.
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  If you have that ability, depending on where you're at in the country, And go
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  for a couple hundred mile drive, you know, once or twice a month, you know, exercise
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  that car It really really needs it.
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  Now.
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  We start talking pricing to the LMS.
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  Now.
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  This is where it gets a little I guess Interesting now now you go out there and
• 19:15
  you look and see what people say what they're going for now I'm not sure where
• 19:18
  they're coming up these prices because I'm seeing a very very low because a couple
• 19:23
  of the LMS that I was Trying to source and find some is that we were in the
• 19:27
  About five to six million dollar range.
• 19:29
  Now, I've seen a couple of things people saying, Oh, it's
• 19:31
  only about like three or four.
• 19:33
  I don't think so.
• 19:34
  You know, you only got nineteen or something like that and people are going
• 19:36
  to start paying through the nose for it.
• 19:38
  Now, and again, it's going to boil down to mileage, class C certification, all that.
• 19:42
  Now, obviously these were basically, these were race cars, so you really
• 19:46
  couldn't put them on the street.
• 19:48
  But, I know there's a couple out there that they basically got,
• 19:52
  you know, uh, I don't want to say federalized, but they got turned into
• 19:55
  so it could be a street going car.
• 19:57
  Again, making a street going car over in Europe as compared to the
• 20:02
  United States is less undertaking than it would be over here.
• 20:05
  Over here, it would take a lot more to it and basically you'd, I don't
• 20:09
  want to say kill the soul of the car, but you know, you'd be taking away a
• 20:11
  lot of things and adding stuff to it that really, and why would you want to
• 20:14
  drive that car in the street anyways?
• 20:16
  I mean, it's just going to beat you up.
• 20:18
  I mean, you're going to be bouncing all over your kidneys.
• 20:19
  It's going to be hating you.
• 20:22
  Anyways, uh, it's something on it, but you know, out there in the market, you're
• 20:27
  looking in that five to six million range.
• 20:28
  Now, I know some people say, Oh God, no, honestly, but look, I can
• 20:32
  tell you right now, I was, you know, working on some deals with those and
• 20:36
  trying, you know, hunt some down and that's the prices that we're getting.
• 20:38
  you know, that need to be done to get it paid for and bought.
• 20:41
  Um, and obviously some people balk at it, but some people get it.
• 20:45
  So it all depends on the buyer, what they're willing to
• 20:47
  step up and pay for the car.
• 20:49
  So, hey, there's only 19 of them ever built.
• 20:51
  So right there, you got that exclusivity to that car because
• 20:55
  compared to anyone else.
• 20:56
  So it's all depends on how much of a big hearer you are, right?
• 21:00
  So anyways, the Ferrari F40, again, my, I guess you say my I hate saying
• 21:08
  second favorite, most favorite Ferrari because I said it's right up there
• 21:11
  with my first Fiat 280 GTO because I just think that F40 is great.
• 21:15
  I, I got to drive one for all of about maybe three minutes, um, just kind
• 21:19
  of punching real slow and all that, but even with that, just doing it
• 21:21
  was such an exhilarating experience.
• 21:23
  It was unbelievable.
• 21:24
  Um, it's just, it's so cool.
• 21:27
  I mean, it's just, I would give anything to be able to just take
• 21:30
  that F40 and just tool around and just like, I want to see it.
• 21:32
  Not so much let loose because God forbid I'd crash it.
• 21:35
  But you know, I'd be paranoid.
• 21:37
  So, but just to take a look, it'd be fantastic.
• 21:40
  I know one of these days I get it.
• 21:41
  Now, that's one of my goals is obviously I'd love to have an F40 in my garage
• 21:47
  and sit there and get up every morning.
• 21:49
  and walk out there and just stare at it for hours on end.
• 21:52
  My wife would think I was nuts, but I would just grab a chair and sit there and
• 21:56
  stare at it and just take a cloth to it and just rub it down all day long just
• 22:02
  saying, this is my baby, this is my baby.
• 22:04
  You know, I'd go live in some shack if I had to but that's what
• 22:08
  it means if I could afford one.
• 22:09
  So anyways, you never know where the road takes you, right?
• 22:11
  You never know what in life is going to happen.
• 22:12
  So, anyways.
• 22:14
  That's it.
• 22:15
  I wanted to talk about the F40, kind of get into it.
• 22:17
  Like I said, I didn't dive in too much detail wise with this car.
• 22:20
  I mean, I'm sure everyone that's listening to this podcast, you
• 22:23
  know, pretty much knows what the F40 is, you know, all the specs on it.
• 22:26
  So I'm not going to really dive into it.
• 22:27
  I just kind of wanted to get into more the nitty gritty or certain aspects of it.
• 22:31
  Just about, hey, what they're going for, you know, what the
• 22:33
  basics of how the car came about.
• 22:35
  Um, you know, it's, it's a great story and how quickly that thing came to the market.
• 22:39
  Um, and, you know, again, being the last ones that Enzo rubber stamp.
• 22:43
  So.
• 22:44
  That's what I want to leave this app again.
• 22:46
  Hey, you know, I know I haven't been around for you much do stuff But alright,
• 22:49
  I'm getting back up on the horse to get these things out going again So I'm
• 22:52
  debating on what the next one might be on.
• 22:54
  So maybe we'll just do the f50 next Maybe I should just start
• 22:58
  going down the line, right?
• 22:59
  You know when that last manual supercar the Ferrari built
• 23:03
  everything out that was automated.
• 23:04
  So let's talk about that one next So let's get that up on the thing and we'll
• 23:08
  have it on hopefully here next week.
• 23:10
  Maybe a little bit sooner Alright guys, again, I really appreciate you listening,
• 23:13
  uh, spread the word, get other people listening, and check out the YouTube
• 23:17
  channel also, uh, if you want to, it's Garage65, uh, kind of covered it, but I
• 23:22
  also have the Ferrari Marketplace, um, channel that deals just with Ferraris,
• 23:26
  so I'm headed to the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix weekend this thing, and uh,
• 23:29
  I know they got some big deal going on with the, uh, 75th anniversary for
• 23:33
  Ferraris, so that should be pretty exciting, see what cars are there.
• 23:36
  So anyways, again everyone, I appreciate you listening.
• 23:38
  Uh, stay tuned and more coming.
• 23:40
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• 23:42
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