Look what followed me home

[Tiltsta]

Huh. Not seeing it in the "For Sale or Trade" forum...

lol. Definitely not for sale. The challenges of trying to import that car is what led to the wife and me thinking about buying something already here. That led to a search for another Porsche, which led to some weird paths crossing when we were visiting a friend and driving his Ferrari car and him mentioning a guy he knows that was selling a 612. The 911 is hanging in Florida and my brother runs it every once and a while to keep it up.

 

[Flatspotter]

You have Luca di Montezemolo's car? So cool! Congrats!

 

[Tiltsta]

You have Luca di Montezemolo's car? So cool! Congrats!

From what I can gather, it might have been his wife's car, and only when they were in Geneva on FOTA trips. Still, someone who is an executive custom ordered it and HE registered it.

Again, he was a infamous car whore and had multiple copies of every model available to him anywhere he traveled. I think it is cool and a bit of a novelty, but there are a bunch of these "provenance" cars out there from various places, so the value add is probably very small, or even non-existent.

 

[Bob411]

HNCD

 

[rickenvox]

I bet your wife was real excited.


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[Lerxst]

Cool

 

[bsman]

I bet your wife was real excited.


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I'm getting wet just thinking about it...

Whoops - that was a zombonie I was thinking about...

 

[Tig]

So now some forum we've never heard of will post a photo of you in your new machine.
Just remember we knew ya first!

 

[Steverino]

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.

So it begs the question, would you bring the Ferrari to the States if you were to return permanently? Would that even be possible?

And congrats. What a beautiful machine.

 

[Tiltsta]

So it begs the question, would you bring the Ferrari to the States if you were to return permanently? Would that even be possible?

And congrats. What a beautiful machine.

Indeed, there are complications like this when you live in two countries. One can import a car from Switzerland to the US if it is more than 25 years old. So, this car wouldn't be importable to the US for another 15 years. Right now it wouldn't be possible as I understand the law, unless of course it wasn't going to be driven on any public road (It could be imported as a race car or a museum piece, for example, both of which probably don't count in this case). I have a similar complication with some of my Swiss guns, they are absolutely illegal in the US and I can't bring them back unless the laws change massively. If I move back, it is easier to sell all these things here and then move. It is a weird situation, but you kind of have to just live your life and not worry about what happens IF you go back.

 

[Honkridge]

Blast Yngwie's "I am a Viking" outta that bad boy's sound system.

 

[rickenvox]

Blast Yngwie's "I am a Viking" outta that bad boy's sound system.

He could have done that in a Hyundai.


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[VoidTerraFirma]

Great “cruiser” Ferrari. Love the interior!

 

[dmn23]

"Cruiser" Ferrari = V12, 533bhp, 434 lb⋅ft, 199mph, 0-60 4sec.

 

[Tiltsta]

There are time sheets out there of people in later One to One cars like mine with the dual clutch gearbox and factory racing exhaust running 0-for 60 times in the 3.8-3.9 range. All I can really add is that the car is stupid fast, and leave this nugget from the owner's manual. They are not exaggerating in the least.

 

[tiger roach]

Lol. Translation - “Don’t floor it unless you want to peel out like a sumbitch.”

 

[VoidTerraFirma]

"Cruiser" Ferrari = V12, 533bhp, 434 lb⋅ft, 199mph, 0-60 4sec.

It has back seats, two pedals, leather sun visors and is marginally faster than a base 911 or mustang GT.

It’s a gentleman’s grand tourer and proud of it...and very much a “cruiser” when compared to the rest of Ferrari’s offerings.

I wasn’t trying to slight the car. In fact, cruiser Ferrari’s are the ones I like the most.

 

[dmn23]

It has back seats, two pedals, leather sun visors and is marginally faster than a base 911 or mustang GT.

It’s a gentleman’s grand tourer and proud of it...and very much a “cruiser” when compared to the rest of Ferrari’s offerings.

I wasn’t trying to slight the car. In fact, cruiser Ferrari’s are the ones I like the most.

I understood what you meant. My observation was more about what constitutes a "leisurely" care coming out of Maranello. And I get it—the 400 GT was always one of my favorites.

For what it's worth, a Mustang GT from ten years ago was making around 300hp.

I saw these two older siblings of the 612 in California last month: a 365 GT4 2+2 and a 456GT.

 

[Tiltsta]

Start up noise to give some idea of the noise it makes...

 

[shoeless]

Start up noise to give some idea of the noise it makes...

That sounds pretty sweet. Now we want a video where you press the accelerator pedal very quickly fully down with the CST cut out and the SPORT button activated under good grip conditions.