Andyk
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A replica but as so pretty
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2b1ask1
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More a conversion rather than a replica.... subtley different aproach as it started off as a good Ferrari and got made better!
Answer Dem; if you need to ask is more than we have! If you break it down though I'd think you would get some change out of £250k for this sort of customization, plus the value of the origional donor!
Answer Dem; if you need to ask is more than we have! If you break it down though I'd think you would get some change out of £250k for this sort of customization, plus the value of the origional donor!
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It's a tough circle to square really, on the one hand the purists will never accept it as a 250, it is a Ferrari through and through no doubt. On the other, why not recreate one, wouldn't we all if we could? This in my view has been done verry well indeed , not a plastic pastiche bassed on some Euro-box or other mule.
I've been at Silverstone classic events and seen some uber valuable racer stoved into the wall; the next year the 'same' car is back, they have rebuilt something resembling the orrigional out of the bits.... Is this any different really?
I've been at Silverstone classic events and seen some uber valuable racer stoved into the wall; the next year the 'same' car is back, they have rebuilt something resembling the orrigional out of the bits.... Is this any different really?
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I have it on really good authority that many of the very well heeled , have replica's of their high end classics made, 2 of the UK owners of Masser 300's and a Birdcage owner have had exact replica's copies made , make perfect sense with so many un-insured idiots out on the roads , , its not so much the financial loss which can be insured , its more the rarity loss value , with just a handfull left of the high end classics it would be an absolute tradegy to see one get written off and lost for ever
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Yup. At the Aston hospitality last year there was a stunning DB4GT which the guy owned up was a replica built from a standard DB4. Nothing to be ashamed of though as he had a real one back home in his garage, just as you say, too important a car to risk out and about. A real one would be worth in exces of £600k but even the replica would ahve cost half that. Not about money so much as irreplacablity, a real one is only 1 of 75...
If you were stinking rich, driving that GTO built from a less rare 250 based car makes sense, you could take it to Le Mans and so on. There are a few built from more common 275s and 330s as well for much less cash as not so high an initial outlay to buy the donor car.