Where Have all the good F430 Tin Tops gone?

Where Have all the good F430 Tin Tops gone?

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p1carl

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635 posts

243 months

Monday 11th May 2015
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Looking for a well looked after F430 in red/crema or black/crema circa 2006 to 2009 but don't seem to be able to locate one.
Seems to be plenty of Spiders about but none with a proper lid on :-)
Is it just down to time of year when everyone has stocked up on soft tops? Will I have to wait until later in the year?

RamboLambo

4,843 posts

177 months

Tuesday 12th May 2015
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There is circa 30 advertised on here alone ????
Stock is fairly fluid as prices are stable and not sure there will be a great deal more going into the winter.

Just a case of whether something fits your spec requirements but with a 9 year old used car there is likely to be some compromise unless you are prepared to wait.
Took me 18 months of scouring the country top to bottom to come up with my perfect spider but the compromise was cost and an extra £40k on the budget at the time

andyferrari

61 posts

172 months

Wednesday 20th May 2015
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http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/f...

If you want a really nice spec car, this was my car that I sold in march 2013. It had 21500 miles on when I sold it and was totally imacculate and unmolested, a really high spec car that cost £156000 when new in 2007. You may not have thought about TDF blue, as I didn't either, but when you see the colour in the flesh it is truely a lovely colour and with a blue scruro leather dash and door panels land crema daytona seats with blue scruro stripes and crema roof panel it is unique.

Just thought I would point it out to you. Truth is I'm seriously tempted to buy it again myself, but now have a Mclrean spider.

If you need any info on the history pm me.

Edited by andyferrari on Wednesday 20th May 21:15

acf69

407 posts

178 months

Wednesday 20th May 2015
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I absolutely adore that blue, I bet it looks stunning in the sun!

p1carl

Original Poster:

635 posts

243 months

Thursday 21st May 2015
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Thanks for the heads up Andy. I was seriously tempted by that one but wanted my first Ferrari to be red, predictable I know and your old one does look absolutely stunning....

andyferrari

61 posts

172 months

Thursday 21st May 2015
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If you are even slightly interested check it out, I got a lot of really positive comments about the car from all of the Ferrari owners in my local owners group. The chap the ordered it from new has bought around ten new F cars and the spec on the 430 is really tasteful.

mattf93

1,273 posts

122 months

Friday 22nd May 2015
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andyferrari said:
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/f...

If you want a really nice spec car, this was my car that I sold in march 2013. It had 21500 miles on when I sold it and was totally imacculate and unmolested, a really high spec car that cost £156000 when new in 2007. You may not have thought about TDF blue, as I didn't either, but when you see the colour in the flesh it is truely a lovely colour and with a blue scruro leather dash and door panels land crema daytona seats with blue scruro stripes and crema roof panel it is unique.

Just thought I would point it out to you. Truth is I'm seriously tempted to buy it again myself, but now have a Mclrean spider.

If you need any info on the history pm me.

Edited by andyferrari on Wednesday 20th May 21:15
Lovely spec, I think TDF is one of the classier colours you can order any F car in, works really well with crema seats too. The only negative in my eyes looking at the spec is the lack of carbon - but that is not the be all and end all to some people. Colour looks lovely, and I'm sure there weren't many 430s in TDF, that I know of in the UK there are only one coupe and one spider TDF 458 (and know of1/2 speciale coupes too).

If you don't want to be 'lairy' (read rosso corsa) with your colour choice, TDF or grigio silverstone imo are the colours best to go for.
I think that 430s started entering the 'lower end' around the £70k market roughly and I think a lot of people seemed to make the jump into their first F car ownership at that point.

PhilboSE

4,754 posts

233 months

Friday 22nd May 2015
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TdF on a F430 (especially with crema seats) looks absolutely great, but then I would say that!

mwstewart

8,038 posts

195 months

Friday 22nd May 2015
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Blue car above looks lovely. The N/S exhaust needs aligning properly but other than that it looks fantastic.

steven-4ibki

1 posts

114 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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I appreciate the below comments, and Andyferrari she truly is an outstanding machine, I'm the owner now, its a totally genuine and impeccable example, I looked at many and decided against common red, I luv the contrast with the cream leather roof and blue leather dash, also the blue leather sills are outstanding, runs like a dream..., my first ferrari and won't be the last...only selling to fund a house build unfortunately; If anyone is at all interested you should view in Knaresborough and contact Ashley at uk sports and prestige, as seeing will convince you, the colour is very classy as people rightfully say against the leather its an amazing contrast, i felt the only upgrade needed was to lift the lights with an LED upgrade which make such a difference that the camera doesn't do justice; a week before advertising I had the hard wire for battery charger fitted and a new ferrari battery charger bought from JCT600/ferrari in leeds.

andyferrari

61 posts

172 months

Monday 25th May 2015
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Hi Steven, well I'm glad you enjoyed the car, as I am sure you have looked after the car, I certainly maintained it very well with regular full details. A little baffled by the hard wire for the battery charger? It was already on the car as it was put on when new.

p1carl

Original Poster:

635 posts

243 months

Wednesday 1st July 2015
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Just collected this little beauty smile

sa_20v

4,108 posts

238 months

Wednesday 1st July 2015
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p1carl said:
Just collected this little beauty smile
Very nice and just in time for some decent weather! biggrin

KissMyRs

87 posts

183 months

Thursday 2nd July 2015
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Looks great!

Durzel

12,459 posts

175 months

Thursday 2nd July 2015
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Looks lovely smile