Lifeboatboy
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Many thanks for all your thoughts and advice, I am listening and trying to use the information.
so as an update I’ve been to see three cars this week and most importantly driven two of them. All three were 360s and the two I drove were actually F1 gearboxes. I have expanded to include 360 F1 cars as well as manual as I liked the 430 F1 I thought it was worth considering and I liked the system in the 360 despite some of the online reviews. They Also drove fine in auto mode which increases the cars usability to my partner too.
The three cars I’ve seen were a 2004 360 F1 in red/cream at Foskers https://www.foskers.com/showroom/2004-ferrari-360-spider-f1/123. A TDF Blue/cream 2001 360 in a small trader in Bristol https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202403077323107 at the same price and finally a car at auction today https://www.swva.co.uk/classic-car/ferrari-360-spider-2004/
So the one at auction sold for much more than I anticipated at £59k plus fees = £64300. Its condition was good but a few bits needed addressing and its service history was not very good. The car had a lot of carbon fibre bits, but does that make such a difference? Anyway this seemed poorer value compared to some other cars.
The car at Foskers seems to be very good and very nicely prepared and excellent service history especially recently and they will service the car prior to sale too. This car is very tempting car and seems the safe option. Has anyone experience of Foskers they seemed like a good specialist with a beautiful array of cars and service area.
The blue car in Bristol is quite good and the Colour combo (to me) is a big bonus. The car was in generally good condition and service history ok. The biggest disappointment was the Capristo exhaust was VERY loud. Whilst I understand they are expensive I think I would have to change it. The head says this car isn’t as good as the one at Foskers, but the heart says blue car.
Finally as a wildcard entry there is a car at auction very similar to the Foskers car. https://www.tradeclassics.com/auctions/ferrari/2004-ferrari-360-spider-f1-2/. Looks pretty good and had a lot of spend at AV engineering which I view as a positive. So will be interesting to see what happens.
The good thing is that the test drives have made me sure that the 360 is enough of a Ferrari for me so will concentrate on that as at my budget looking at a wider pool of cars, rather than higher mileage or cars with faults for the F430.
Thanks all for putting up with my ramblings
In full transparency, I have a vested interest, but hey…Many thanks for all your thoughts and advice, I am listening and trying to use the information.
so as an update I’ve been to see three cars this week and most importantly driven two of them. All three were 360s and the two I drove were actually F1 gearboxes. I have expanded to include 360 F1 cars as well as manual as I liked the 430 F1 I thought it was worth considering and I liked the system in the 360 despite some of the online reviews. They Also drove fine in auto mode which increases the cars usability to my partner too.
The three cars I’ve seen were a 2004 360 F1 in red/cream at Foskers https://www.foskers.com/showroom/2004-ferrari-360-spider-f1/123. A TDF Blue/cream 2001 360 in a small trader in Bristol https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202403077323107 at the same price and finally a car at auction today https://www.swva.co.uk/classic-car/ferrari-360-spider-2004/
So the one at auction sold for much more than I anticipated at £59k plus fees = £64300. Its condition was good but a few bits needed addressing and its service history was not very good. The car had a lot of carbon fibre bits, but does that make such a difference? Anyway this seemed poorer value compared to some other cars.
The car at Foskers seems to be very good and very nicely prepared and excellent service history especially recently and they will service the car prior to sale too. This car is very tempting car and seems the safe option. Has anyone experience of Foskers they seemed like a good specialist with a beautiful array of cars and service area.
The blue car in Bristol is quite good and the Colour combo (to me) is a big bonus. The car was in generally good condition and service history ok. The biggest disappointment was the Capristo exhaust was VERY loud. Whilst I understand they are expensive I think I would have to change it. The head says this car isn’t as good as the one at Foskers, but the heart says blue car.
Finally as a wildcard entry there is a car at auction very similar to the Foskers car. https://www.tradeclassics.com/auctions/ferrari/2004-ferrari-360-spider-f1-2/. Looks pretty good and had a lot of spend at AV engineering which I view as a positive. So will be interesting to see what happens.
The good thing is that the test drives have made me sure that the 360 is enough of a Ferrari for me so will concentrate on that as at my budget looking at a wider pool of cars, rather than higher mileage or cars with faults for the F430.
Thanks all for putting up with my ramblings