gtx6970
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And all this for a car thats kinda ugly , IMO
This pile of twisted metal is our Sale of The Year
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hdwrench
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indeed ! all the time and money invested for a karman gia copy !
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The car is visually more appealing as a heap than it is restored.
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Except the VW Karmann Ghia came out a couple of years after this Ferrari.
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In that realm
They love the money or recognition better,
if that was a 63 Dart, in the same shape or even better, they would NOT do it...
almost nobody would be dumb enough to spend that kind of $$$ either
it takes a special type to do that & a big *** bankroll...
Cars like this represent job security for skilled craftsmen & a "Who's got a bigger dick" moment for people with liquid cooled wallets...
Not a very attractive car IMO but I ain't got $4M to spend on it so my opinion doesn't matter... I've spent enough time around people who play in that league, if they need my talents for anything all they gotta do is write the check...
Not a very attractive car IMO but I ain't got $4M to spend on it so my opinion doesn't matter... I've spent enough time around people who play in that league, if they need my talents for anything all they gotta do is write the check...
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Correct. People in that league don't do any of the restoration work themselves; they just write checks and the finished product is just expensive bragging rights.
JR_Charger
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I'm reminded of Andrew Tate saying that the reason he bought his Bugatti was so he could get access to the kind of people who own Bugattis. The value of this pile of junk goes beyond its selling price as a restored car.
chargervert
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Our resident miracle worker can whip the Ferrari back into shape in no time at all!
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I guess I'm one of the luckyHumans (mostly females?):
$24 billion plastic surgery industry (USA)
$19.5 billion cosmetic industry (USA)
Tell your wife if she questions your car hobby.
few. My wife wholeheartedly
accepts my mechanical
obsessions. Granted our
homelife never suffered.
A roof over her head was
priority one, and that she
was free to pursue her own
creative passions.
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I know a guy who could repair that Ferrari. All hammer and file. No bondo.
I've known a few of those types.. Unfortunately they are no longer with us... Guys with those skills are becoming quite rare these days..
chargervert
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The shop up in Canada, the Guild was hand building a Ferrari replica on the show Restoration Garage. A shop like that could repair and hand make the missing pieces.
chargervert
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It's much different, on a Cuda or any other Mopar muscle car, you are replacing parts that are either original pieces from another car, or using reproduction parts to repair a structurally damaged car. On a Ferrari like this car,you are making the parts. This is what is known as coach building, not replacing ready made parts. Our cars are not even in the same universe.
While true, when most of the body has been replaced can it still be considered an original car? Does it have the same value as an original car?
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Hell, you start talking about building one from scratch, I think we've left 'rebody" in the dust...Oh no
maybe "wanna/gonna be a body"?
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