Look what followed me home
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Dudeman1967
blah, blah, blah...
Now I want to hear a recording of that exhaust system.
It is 9:30 at night here, and I don't want to piss of the neighbors. I'll make a video tomorrow. It is a Ferrari 2.5" X pipe racing exhaust with muffler bypass valves. It is loud and it pops and crackles when you rev it, like a V12 Ferrari should. In sport or race mode it bypasses the mufflers all together and runs through a set of small resonators. It can get very loud.
Denverdave
Resident Ragamuffin
Incredible car! Congrats to you and Mrs Tiltsa!
WilmerTheWhite
BREAUX
I passed through Switzerland in my car some few months ago, and the speed limit was 130 km? 
I passed through Switzerland in my car some few months ago, and the speed limit was 130 km?
120, actually, but I live just outside Basel so Germany and unlimited speed sections of the autobahn are not far away. Perhaps 12 km from my house to a road with no speed limit.
Guitar Heel
Demented Trick
And for the provenance story for the people who followed the acquisition in the car forum, the car was originally delivered to Ferrari of Geneva as a Ferrari corporate executive car, and the first 2 years of the cars life it served as the local wheels for Luca di Montezemolo when he was working in Geneva as president of the Formula One Team Association based in Geneva. He was the president of Ferrari and Fiat at the time and needed a car he could keep for use in Geneva when he was there. I have the original paperwork for this. He also had a blue one and a 599 (maybe more?). He sold the car in 2010 to the person I bought it from when he left the presidency of the FOTA and no longer needed to come to Geneva. The guy who bought it was an acquaintance of his, who sold it to me though a mutual acquaintance. I don't think this adds anything to the value, and I didn't pay anything for the story and only heard it and got the bits after I already agreed to buy it, but I think it is kind of neat. According to the guy I bought it from, the car wan't used often, and his (Luca's) wife mostly drove it when she came to Geneva with him. So I think I have the car of the wife of a controversial automotive executive that he ordered to use when he traveled to work at an organization that was controversial, accomplished almost nothing, and then disbanded.
I feel like George Constanza in the John Voigt K car. You know, the orthodontist. Also, the guy was famous for having several new cars every year, so he probably has touched a lot of cars from his era at Ferrari. For some models it might be rarer to find a car he didn't own. Still a neat thing to have, but if it was owned by some random person I would enjoy it the same.
I feel like George Constanza in the John Voigt K car. You know, the orthodontist. Also, the guy was famous for having several new cars every year, so he probably has touched a lot of cars from his era at Ferrari. For some models it might be rarer to find a car he didn't own. Still a neat thing to have, but if it was owned by some random person I would enjoy it the same.
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Did you get a bowl of soup with that?
Kidding.
Congrats!!
Kidding.
Congrats!!
Does this mean you park the 911 on the street now?
Very sweet ride!
The 911 is in Florida in storage. It was very difficult and expensive to import it into Switzerland and get it registered. Like 25K USD to get it approved to use on a Swiss road. It would need full testing for a certificate of road use, as no one has brought a US spec 911 of that vintage into Switzerland, and the government here doesn't accept that the German version is "pretty similar". It would need a full emission testing, fuel economy rating (for tax), and exemptions for the differences in bumpers and so on. This means they need to actually measure these things, which is expensive. I was told 2 months at least and 25K USD to do it, plus shipping and insurance and storage fees. It is cheaper to buy a local or even German car and drive it than import a US spec car. So, I still have it, but it isn't here and is still in my parent's garage.
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bsman
b00b
Huh. Not seeing it in the "For Sale or Trade" forum...