Driven hard and often
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It’s never bothered me ever since 25 yrs ago while collecting my Testarossa from a franchised dealer .
Not my car but a new ish one ( F car ) there was a guy with a modlers tiny air brush touching up the stone chip rashes .
At the time paintwork was seen as a negative by buyers , thoughts of respray for rust or covering accident damage etc .
The bloke told me “ all the cars in there ( show room with 15 cars ) were “ prepared “ .
Sure enough I went back into the showroom and yep not one stone chip or scratch on any car some approaching 10 yrs old .
Fast Fwds to today I was in my local Porsche centre recently after a part and ended up “ in the back ‘ ,A full paint booth temperature controlled and 5 front bumpers off on stands being prepared to meet the 111 point standards.
So look at it this way it’s like having a beautiful woman and not 7**king her ……( not driving your nice car ) ….you are just leaving her ( your car ) for the next guy ?
When it comes to offloading/ part ex ing your nice car in this case a Ferrari , the sales guy just offers you the book value , or enough to sweeten the next deal .They are gonna “ prepare it “ any how and that inc paintwork.
If it’s not up to approved standard ( missed a stamp or what ever ) then it’s gonna be sent into the trade.Trade also paint out stone chips etc ,
I don’t get guys who never 7**k there wives or drive there nice cars inc Ferrari .
Madness they miss out .
Not my car but a new ish one ( F car ) there was a guy with a modlers tiny air brush touching up the stone chip rashes .
At the time paintwork was seen as a negative by buyers , thoughts of respray for rust or covering accident damage etc .
The bloke told me “ all the cars in there ( show room with 15 cars ) were “ prepared “ .
Sure enough I went back into the showroom and yep not one stone chip or scratch on any car some approaching 10 yrs old .
Fast Fwds to today I was in my local Porsche centre recently after a part and ended up “ in the back ‘ ,A full paint booth temperature controlled and 5 front bumpers off on stands being prepared to meet the 111 point standards.
So look at it this way it’s like having a beautiful woman and not 7**king her ……( not driving your nice car ) ….you are just leaving her ( your car ) for the next guy ?
When it comes to offloading/ part ex ing your nice car in this case a Ferrari , the sales guy just offers you the book value , or enough to sweeten the next deal .They are gonna “ prepare it “ any how and that inc paintwork.
If it’s not up to approved standard ( missed a stamp or what ever ) then it’s gonna be sent into the trade.Trade also paint out stone chips etc ,
I don’t get guys who never 7**k there wives or drive there nice cars inc Ferrari .
Madness they miss out .
Now that's a first using not 7**king wifey in the same terminology as not driving your super car,
the difference is the car has no choice whether being driven or not ,where the wife does, eg headaches,hair washing night,
Just try locking the wife up in a garage for weeks .
Every chance that there maybe someone else's wife is being serviced if yours isn't.
Getting back to thread ,my GTB has covered 155,000 miles ,showing 55,000 as on it's second time round on road and track,
owned it for 28 years and is a little battle scared ,rear is a little exhaust stained and the splitrims look more black than the polished
alloy they should be but i love it that way ,like a old armchair or nicely broken i pair of boots,
Got other cars that i lavish more time on cleaning and fussing over even when there not even dirty,
Long range weather reports before i even think about taking the covers off.
The GTB is a keeper ,probably unsaleable with that mileage anyway.
Besides my nipper who was 7 when i bought it now 35 will disown me if i did sell it.
the difference is the car has no choice whether being driven or not ,where the wife does, eg headaches,hair washing night,
Just try locking the wife up in a garage for weeks .
Every chance that there maybe someone else's wife is being serviced if yours isn't.
Getting back to thread ,my GTB has covered 155,000 miles ,showing 55,000 as on it's second time round on road and track,
owned it for 28 years and is a little battle scared ,rear is a little exhaust stained and the splitrims look more black than the polished
alloy they should be but i love it that way ,like a old armchair or nicely broken i pair of boots,
Got other cars that i lavish more time on cleaning and fussing over even when there not even dirty,
Long range weather reports before i even think about taking the covers off.
The GTB is a keeper ,probably unsaleable with that mileage anyway.
Besides my nipper who was 7 when i bought it now 35 will disown me if i did sell it.
Edited by rat rod on Saturday 8th October 08:17
rat rod said:
Now that's a first using not 7**king wifey in the same terminology as not driving your super car,
the difference is the car has no choice whether being driven or not ,where the wife does, eg headaches,hair washing night,
Just try locking the wife up in a garage for weeks .
Every chance that there maybe someone else's wife is being serviced if yours isn't.
Getting back to thread ,my GTB has covered 155,000 miles ,showing 55,000 as on it's second time round on road and track,
owned it for 28 years and is a little battle scared ,rear is a little exhaust stained and the splitrims look more black than the polished
alloy they should be but i love it that way ,like a old armchair or nicely broken i pair of boots,
Got other cars that i lavish more time on cleaning and fussing over even when there not even dirty,
Long range weather reports before i even think about taking the covers off.
The GTB is a keeper ,probably unsaleable with that mileage anyway.
Besides my nipper who was 7 when i bought it now 35 will disown me if i did sell it.
If you do ever decide to sell it … give me a shout the difference is the car has no choice whether being driven or not ,where the wife does, eg headaches,hair washing night,
Just try locking the wife up in a garage for weeks .
Every chance that there maybe someone else's wife is being serviced if yours isn't.
Getting back to thread ,my GTB has covered 155,000 miles ,showing 55,000 as on it's second time round on road and track,
owned it for 28 years and is a little battle scared ,rear is a little exhaust stained and the splitrims look more black than the polished
alloy they should be but i love it that way ,like a old armchair or nicely broken i pair of boots,
Got other cars that i lavish more time on cleaning and fussing over even when there not even dirty,
Long range weather reports before i even think about taking the covers off.
The GTB is a keeper ,probably unsaleable with that mileage anyway.
Besides my nipper who was 7 when i bought it now 35 will disown me if i did sell it.
Edited by rat rod on Saturday 8th October 08:17
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