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It's outstanding!
I saw this in the flesh at Porsche Reading last night and it's fabulously dog-eared. I presume it's a prior insurance write off or some such as I can't imagine lopping the roof off a car for fun otherwise... although there is no accounting for some tastes. I can appreciate what the owner is trying to do and I think they have achieved the desired result! I wouldn't personally want my own car in the same style, but if you want to get noticed and stick two fingers up at the shiny Ferrari brigade this is certainly one way of achieving that. I suspect this car would draw a crowd around it all day, even in exalted company simply because it is different and there is so much to marvel at - from the ripply, cracked, badly finished body to the tired and crumbling interior... there is a certain delicious decay to it...
Perhaps better to see it out on the road, a car being truly relished, enjoyed and used up, rather than festering in a climate controlled bubble - though that is a debate for another thread perhaps.
From my point of view, bravo. Props to the owner and I hope they enjoy it - I look forward to shaking their hand should I ever have the opportunity to meet them in person.
I saw this in the flesh at Porsche Reading last night and it's fabulously dog-eared. I presume it's a prior insurance write off or some such as I can't imagine lopping the roof off a car for fun otherwise... although there is no accounting for some tastes. I can appreciate what the owner is trying to do and I think they have achieved the desired result! I wouldn't personally want my own car in the same style, but if you want to get noticed and stick two fingers up at the shiny Ferrari brigade this is certainly one way of achieving that. I suspect this car would draw a crowd around it all day, even in exalted company simply because it is different and there is so much to marvel at - from the ripply, cracked, badly finished body to the tired and crumbling interior... there is a certain delicious decay to it...
Perhaps better to see it out on the road, a car being truly relished, enjoyed and used up, rather than festering in a climate controlled bubble - though that is a debate for another thread perhaps.
From my point of view, bravo. Props to the owner and I hope they enjoy it - I look forward to shaking their hand should I ever have the opportunity to meet them in person.
hurstg01 said:
I saw at it Easthampstead Park at the weekend and thought it was mid-restoration?.......
Likewise. Because surely only the worst kind of M*x P*wer barryboys type would rat down all the paintwork but leave the plastic parts still in paint/gelcoat? So it looks really badly contrived, forced and generally just... well.... s
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Trying too hard always fails
p.s. those pics fail to show the interior, complete with seats that look as though they were re-connolised with Dulux. Using a catapult
Fair enough, horses for courses. My personal feeling is I like rat cars when they've got that way through just surviving a long time and earned their grime/bad paint/dents/whatever. It grates my teeth to see rat-look cars where someone's thrown paintstripper over it/painted it grey/chucked loads of stupid tat on a roofrack.
And leaving the plastics red on that Testarossa to me just screams "I had a look in my head that I got off Instagram but I don't know how to get there. So I'll just leave those bits and call it intentional"
And leaving the plastics red on that Testarossa to me just screams "I had a look in my head that I got off Instagram but I don't know how to get there. So I'll just leave those bits and call it intentional"
yellowtr said:
Don't knock it, the owner is proper petrolhead and a very decent bloke and a multiple Ferrari owner.
The story behind the car is brilliant. Credit to him he is doing all the work himself and has learnt the hardway too. You can follow the story on Ferrarichat.
With all respect, I don't see why being a nice bloke is any barrier to owning a sThe story behind the car is brilliant. Credit to him he is doing all the work himself and has learnt the hardway too. You can follow the story on Ferrarichat.
t-looking car? The two things aren't necessarily mutually exclusiveThe car has not been made to look like it does, its how it turned up from the states in boxes! its a rolling restoration that can be used in the meantime not faked patina/neglect, its genuine patina/neglect!
The owner is having a ball working his way through the car getting everything working again.
The owner is having a ball working his way through the car getting everything working again.
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