Thank Gawd I Don't Own a Ferrarri....

What's the black round thing, a cappuccino holder?

Wheel locking nut wrench.

This is for a $1M car. Why not spend $30K if that is your thing.

I'd LOVE to be one of those whose thing is to pi$$ money and sh!t gold. It would be cool, I'd probably own other expensive stuff too!

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Originally posted by PanteraDoug:
What's the black round thing, a cappuccino holder?

A little bid off the subject here but, I was told by a good source that a cup holder for a F12 is a $5k option. I did see the car and didn't notice if it had the cup holder. For what those cars cost, I guess another $5k for the cup holder could be bragging rights.

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Originally posted by Panterapatt:
Wheel locking nut wrench.

This is for a $1M car. Why not spend $30K if that is your thing.

Shouldn't the servants in the chase car be responsible for that?
Well, I suppose the working class calls them the mechanics in the race team?

As far as nuts go, I mean checking your own nuts is probably a good idea but some pay others to do that for them?

Don't be too rough on Ferrari owners .. many of them are car guys too. Some even own a Pantera.

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Originally posted by Robbie:
Don't be too rough on Ferrari owners .. many of them are car guys too. Some even own a Pantera.

It would be foolish and ridiculous of me to make a blanket generalization of owners of any particular brand.

I hold no particular animosity to any at all.

I would say though that I am from the school of Shelby and I feel the same way about the marque as he and Henry Ford did.

Sometimes though I can't help but feel that it isn't about being a car guy in owning a Ferrari, it's about being an elitist.

I have no idea where that came from at all?

Where I am from we have a saying about a little Fox, he didn't want the Berries up on the tall Three as they were anyway tasting bitter! Why? because he couldn't reach them........

Deep inside all of us I believe we really would like to own a bunch of Ferrari´s or am I wrong?

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Deep inside all of us I believe we really would like to own a bunch of Ferrari´s or am I wrong?

Sure I would - my original post was just "Tongue in Cheek".

Even so - I am so cheap I would still have a hard time pulling the trigger on that Tool Rool even if I did have 5 Ferraris in my stable!

AH and now one ever desired a Boss302 or a Boss9 or a 350KR convertible or a 70 Hemi convertible...or maybe Michael's Pavesi GT5S


liars

FWIW, when I bought my jack for the Mangusta a few people told me I was crazy because it was a high 3 digit number. But then someone said: if you had a 6 cyl '64 Mustang how much would you pay for an original jack, well $60 someone replied. Ok then $60 / $15K vs XXX/ YYY K what is the best deal. Plus how many Mustangs did they make in 64 vs how many DeTomaso or Ferrari did they make in that particular year. Do the math it all relative.

I think you might be surprised how many Pantera owners also own a Ferrari.
People might think they are status cars, but there are very few things that are more fun than driving a mid-engine Ferrari on a race track.

Mike

On the other hand............

This thread is not about owning a Ferrari or a Pavesi GT5S.

It's about paying 32K for a tool roll that contains a $100 jack and ratchet, some crappy metric wrenches, a cappuccino holder, an oil filter removal tool and some GMB fuses in a sealed pack. Plus a 40 year old leather bag, and a cool spark plug holder. Lest I forget to mention, a window crank tool, and an Spark plug remover.

Obviously super cool.

But worth the price? Maybe.... But not to me.

At a garage sale, in a box..... About $64

Any of you guys who think this is a smoking deal have to be smoking ..... well, something.

Just my $.02

I'd check out the Tool roll on the bottom left corner of the ad, and buy a super 351C motor with the extra $7500 I "saved".


Rocky

Flame suit on.

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Originally posted by goodroceep inside all of us I believe we really would like to own a bunch of Ferrari´s or am I wrong?

I would own a bunch of Lambos before I own a Ferrari.

Back on subject $30k for a tool roll is some serious change for a bunch of crappy tools and someone is going to make a lot of money off them crappy tools.

I realize that this all may seem ridiculous as the 'sum of its parts' would be far below the price. Yet, the same can be said of many collectible bits.

Though the tool roll seems absurd, why not 10x 'normal' price for a windshield that's nearly unavailable, or a unwarped head, or any number of parts that go into a $50k car or a $3m car?

This is not a Ferrari-only affliction.

Somewhere there's a guy in a $1200 Civic who thinks we're all idiots for having a car with a $7,000 transmission. Relativity I guess.

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Originally posted by A Hudson:

Somewhere there's a guy in a $1200 Civic who thinks we're all idiots for having a car with a $7,000 transmission. Relativity I guess.

I don't tell them that as opposed to others.

I own 2 ferrari's and I agree some of the parts and get stupid expensive. The classic "enzo era" cars are skyrocketing in cost and so are their parts and availability. I for one would never buy a new ferrari. The devaluation is just unacceptable to me. I prefer to buy used after someone else has taken the big hit. Both my cars were bought that way. Interesting enough they are increasing in value too much like our Pantera's. Good stuff.

If you owned a Daytona, had just spent $300K restoring it, and all that was standing between you and a Platinum award (thus a higher valuation on your baby) at the Cavallino Classic was that tool roll, you'd pony up and buy it. And you'd be happy one was available. Most of us are not in that class, but it absolutely is relative.

Mark

Agreed...$30k is nothing compared to the increase in value and significance of the last point at a major show.

The cars are also nearing $1m now, so the parts prices make sense.

LS