xkjagnz Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 https://www.autoblog.com/2019/05/14/ferraris-rot-in-field/#slide-7577377 Datsuncog, The Moog, Dick Longbridge and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulplom Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 Some friend he was! mrbenn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faker Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 Read this article the other day.. definitely not much of a friend to push potentially a million quid worth of prancing pony stock out in to a field for years... mrbenn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 Yow... that's bad going. More pics available to view on the original Silodrome article: https://silodrome.com/field-of-abandoned-ferraris/ Though I had to titter at the article's opening line, "A series of unfortunate events led to a sight we only very rarely see in the car world – a dozen Ferraris parked out in a field and forgotten, as though they were little more than a rag tag collection of ’96 Dodge Neons." If it had been a whole field of '96 Neons, then there may have been even more interest on these fair pages... Stanky, Rocket88, Lacquer Peel and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbenn Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 How sad. I wonder if the owner of the cars ever recovered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 2 hours ago, Faker said: Read this article the other day.. definitely not much of a friend to push potentially a million quid worth of prancing pony stock out in to a field for years... There’s not a million quids worth in those fields. The stuff they’ve got in there look like the black sheep stuff like 400is and 348s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 55 minutes ago, sierraman said: There’s not a million quids worth in those fields. The stuff they’ve got in there look like the black sheep stuff like 400is and 348s. There might be, provided the sole copy of Wu-Tang Clan's Once Upon A Time In Shaolin is stuck in the boot-mount CD changer of one of them... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_Shaolin chodweaver and 95 quid Peugeot 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 1 hour ago, sierraman said: There’s not a million quids worth in those fields. The stuff they’ve got in there look like the black sheep stuff like 400is and 348s. A hundred grand's worth, then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 Irrespective of the monetary value, it's downright tragic that they've been left to for like that. I'm no massive Ferrari fan boy, but there is *something* about them, at least up until the 90s... Had the pleasure of driving a Testarossa for most of a week a few years back, and for all it was the model that the purists loved to have, I'd have been very happy to have it as part of my fleet. Only thing I remember actively disliking was that it was an absolute pig of a thing to clean. Sudsprint and Dick Longbridge 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 25 minutes ago, Zelandeth said: Irrespective of the monetary value, it's downright tragic that they've been left to for like that. I'm no massive Ferrari fan boy, but there is *something* about them, at least up until the 90s.... I've travelled in a 246GTS and a 456. They were nice enough to look at, but I wouldn't be able to cope with cars of that calibre. I am firmly of the view that you need to be in a certain income bracket to keep on top of one. bangernomics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnthonyG Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 I suspect they are mostly ‘parts’ cars now, although given Testarossa values that one might get restored - also the 308s. Something like that yellow 400 convertible will need a total rebuild, and that would cost way more than whatever it’s worth (I’m guessing about £50k these days?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 Hang on was there talk of Chrysler Neons.... can I go to that field please! mrbenn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 42 minutes ago, AnthonyG said: ....Something like that yellow 400 convertible will need a total rebuild, and that would cost way more than whatever it’s worth (I’m guessing about £50k these days?) I thought the 400s were as low* as £35,000 but your guess is likely more accurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kringle Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 11 hours ago, Datsuncog said: There might be, provided the sole copy of Wu-Tang Clan's Once Upon A Time In Shaolin is stuck in the boot-mount CD changer of one of them... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_Shaolin I spent a lot more time looking at this than those Ferrari's. What a fantastic idea. Datsuncog and PhilA 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
17-Coffees Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 Talk of Neon', did the news of the barn with 150 brand new 1997 Chrysler Neon's go under the radar here? Personally its a shame seeing them in that state, even if they are the 'unloved' models. Personally I like the 400 series, something about the basic design! Datsuncog and anonymous user 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymous user Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 I wonder if any of those Neons are still around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkNWeigh Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 The 400 with the horrible roof conversion has already sold and surprisingly doesn't look too bad for an Italian car that lived in a field for years. https://www.beverlyhillscarclub.com/1983-ferrari-400i-spider-conversion-c-9198.htm Dick Longbridge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymous user Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 ^"Recently came out of storage" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tartan58 Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 Always loved these 400 series especially in black, kind of a stealth Ferrari! I remember looking longingly at adverts for them in the motoring section of my percents copy of the Sunday Times in the mid 90s when you could pick up a good one for around £10k. I bet even these 'wrecks' would go for considerably more than that now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovorsche Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 The family should have picked the worst basket case, pumped the tyres right up, filled the tank to the brim and pushed it back into storage. Then set it on fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faker Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 A friend recently sold a cat c 1985 328 gts which was a damned nice car in fairness when he got it a dozen or so years ago.... sold around 2 years ago for 50k needing a bit of tlc. There's some pretty high end classic ponies hiding in that field... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faker Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 13 Ferrari and 2 rollers. Both rollers and 2 Ferrari vanish 3x 328, at least 3x348, one or more 308, couple of 400, testorossa. Using todays prices... That's a hell of a lot of money to push out in to a field for 10 years. 10 years ago they were worth about half the present value going by what my mate paid for his 328 gts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 1 hour ago, Faker said: .....Using todays prices... .... 10 years ago they were worth about half the present value going by what my mate paid for his 328 gts... What was the average wage 10 years ago? Are they more or less affordable* now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faker Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 My mate gave 35k for it, ten years ago. It was pretty mint (even though a cat c.. maybe d). It sold for 50k needing a respray! It was used for fun, and not necessarily kept in a heated garage. It developed spiders webs all under the paint. Was valued in excess of 70k if he'd have got it painted. Quotes of 10k were being bandied about... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 I'm a huge fan of Ferrari. @Zelandeth - how did you end up swanking around in a TestaRossa? As for the moneygrabbers who left the cars in the field for a decade, despite receiving back payments from the ill fella's family...I sincerely hope karma catches up with them. Utter bastards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnthonyG Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 14 hours ago, NorfolkNWeigh said: The 400 with the horrible roof conversion has already sold and surprisingly doesn't look too bad for an Italian car that lived in a field for years. https://www.beverlyhillscarclub.com/1983-ferrari-400i-spider-conversion-c-9198.htm To be fair, that does look an awful lot better than I expected it to look ?. I’ve reread the article and note the mention of a rescue by a ‘local Ferrari expert’ based in Houston, so it looks like this happened in Texas or elsewhere in the South-West. If it had been in New York State I suspect the 400’s floor would have been missing in action after a few years... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymous user Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 Am I the only one who wondered that there was paperwork for two Ferraris that weren't there and two Ferraris there without paperwork. Is there a chance that the storage chap pushed two wrong cars in the field that he was storing for someone else and still has the others (and the Rolls Royces) in his lock up? Faker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 That's further inland than Houston, the shrubbery is wrong. Plus, despite the heat is really quite humid. Might have been TX, they have front plate holders. Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 13 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said: I'm a huge fan of Ferrari. @Zelandeth - how did you end up swanking around in a TestaRossa? As for the moneygrabbers who left the cars in the field for a decade, despite receiving back payments from the ill fella's family...I sincerely hope karma catches up with them. Utter bastards. Basically because one of my friends back up north was someone whose approach to special cars was that they were pointless to own if people couldn't enjoy them, and he trusted my driving. I was stuck for wheels for a week while I was waiting for a part to arrive, and he always be a few things kicking around that were looking for a new home, I knew at that point that there was a Sierra and a Bluebird round the back of his place and was expecting one of those to be lent to me. I got home with my folks that afternoon to find a Ferrari in the driveway and an envelope on our doorstep containing the keys and a note simply saying "Have fun :)" Only cars of his that nobody was under any circumstances allowed to drive were the Ferrari Daytona and his orange X plate Escort 1.3 2-door estate. The first new car he ever bought, and possibly the most pampered mass market car ever to have existed. Anything else was fair game for me, which meant I had a shot of some pretty exotic stuff over the years as he always had something interesting, but tended to change the exotic motor in the fleet every few months. Dick Longbridge, richardmorris, LightBulbFun and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauldoubleyou Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 All that stood out for me in this thread is Chrysler neons I almost bought an SRT version in about 2007. ON FINANCE. As a young lad. The wife actually talked me out of it as the pushchair wouldn’t fit in the back. There’s a missed opportunity eh?Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now