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/Imagine the look on the guys face if you bought the car, picked it up in the rain, and got your muddy boots on the carpet and then lit up a smoke for the drive across country. He'd faint.
10/15/09
I mean, I don't have the level of commitment to do something like this (as evidenced by my car, unwashed since August '08, except for the square to put the LeMons sticker on), but I can't help but look at this and think, "phwoar, that's gorgeous."
10/14/09
I'd strap on my platform shoes, throw on that awesome album by that new band, Van Halen, and lay rubber all the way to the Whiskey a Go Go.
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I always appreciate the work that goes into these types of restorations. Even if the car is a 1984 Dodge Aries.
10/14/09
Should have bought his old 633CSi...
As for the 308, I'd still prefer a 328 but the labor which went into this one changes things a bit.
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I would hate to have been his dorm mate in college.
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get in with dirty shoes
leave with MASSIVE gravel burnout
see owner/carer cry
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There are actually SEVERAL "Ferrari Red's", ya know... the Rosso Corsa (or "Racing Red"), is the one most commonly seen - this is the "official" Italian team racing colors from back in the day when each country was assigned a particular color that their cars were to be liveried in... this era is also where "British Racing Green" came from... you can Google/Wiki this stuff for more background if you like.
In any event, Ferrari has used three fairly predominant shades of red over the years... "Corsa", again, being the most-utlized, but there are also "Rosso Rubino" (which is my favorite one), which is a deeper, almost blood-red/not quite Burgundy, and the even lesser-used "Rosso Barchetta/Rosso Fiorano" (which are pretty much the same color... unless you were some kind of paint expert or Ferrari nut, you prolly couldn't tell the difference).
There have also been a couple of more metallic versions of each over the years, but those are the three basic "Reds" you're going to encounter in Ferrari-land. #ferrari308
10/14/09
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The owner should be sent to the best hairstylist in the world and go to the spa for the day to be cleaned and pampered and then dressed in the worlds most expensive Tux and then placed in a hermetically sealed chamber for the rest of his life for the destruction of this beautiful car.
I would watch Jeremy Clarkson destroy 10 of these cars on live TV with a sledgehammer and blow torches than watch some idiot with more money than sense destroy one by turning it into some obsessive "object". Never again will the scream of this car being revved up to redline on its way into 3rd gear be heard again.....
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I think the only choice is to be museum fodder. But then, it's not original, so it's not as good as a stored-from-new example for museum work.
I'm very impressed with the work, but I can't help feeling that 50% less effort would equal 100% more fun, because there wouldn't be so much guilt attached to driving through a puddle.
10/14/09
It's not a priceless museum piece, it's a car. A reasonable sum of money but you'll pay far more for a less interesting Porsche. Besides, Leno said it best. "(words to effect) I like to buy a 10 and drive it down to a 7." Too right.
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