It seems the gurus are in disagreement on pricing. Maybe someone got a good deal. Besides, I still don't know the asking price on the black one. Maybe Mark will buy it.

Do we know how long ago the Sheehan car sold? Just about any decent V12 Ferrari motor is worth more than the 30K they were talking about for that car these days.

Guru isn't the quite the word I would use to describe Sheehan.

Try TEN years ago.

The price for the subject of the thread has been decided upon by the seller: just under $40K. That fits in with Yang's estimate of a wholesale price of $30K.

True. But I doubt no one has more experience selling old broken ponies than Sheehan.

Yes, ten years ago. It's now at a restoration shop in Illinois.




Is the black car is question in Sebastopol, CA? Or in Las Vegas?

Do you have a chassis number?

I will look at it Tuesday morning.

Agree and think it would be acceptable to some in the Ferrari crowd. Find a rough 400i in the mid-$ 20k. Full rebuild will double that, hopefully not. Noisy timing chain tensioner issues, water pump, leaky gaskets all have to be considered. Most of the 400i I recall had GM automatics, ran hot with all the US plumbing, EPA stuff. Yuk. Although I think if one did a clean transplant without all the emission garbage, could be a neat reliable cruiser. DIY Ferrari and guessing would have $100k into it when done??

I don't like the idea of taking a good running Ferrari and picking it for parts.

Agree but a cheap and rough 'running' 400i is far from being a so called desirable Ferrari. Some might go so far as calling it a miserable car. Finding and buying the drive train isn't much different vs. the cost of a rough car. The 330 here is already picked apart and I guess its ones matter of choice of what they want in the end.

Agreed. Leave them alone.

That is what happened to these GTE's in the first place. Its a crying shame. But as it's said, once someone buys a car, they are free to do what they want.

As an aside, I was fortunate in that my parent's neighbor restored a GTE, mostly in his garage, in the 1980's. It was an expensive hobby then, but nowhere near what it would cost today. IIRC he got the running car (with rusted running boards and other issues) for ~$30k.

I'd hang out over there all I could. It was through that experience that I got the confidence to wrench on my own cars.

I got a number of rides in that car, and I have an undying love for Ferrari V12's because of it. The noises! unbelievable!

Around town it would make this incredible gearbox whine. When you hammered it the gearbox whine would be overcome by the most amazing induction noise through the triple 4-barrel Webers. I can still hear it - 25 years on!

That car was sold somewhere in the mid 1990's I think. He had other cool cars over the years, but I think he feels he should never have let that one go.

<sigh>

I digress. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.


I just don't think you could get anywhere near that with the flat-crank Chevy. It would probably be way too much power for the vintage chassis as well.

That said, I'd respect anyone who would get that chassis moving again in some non-destructive way. It could allow for the eventual return of the 3.0L Ferrari V-12!

I talked to the seller. It had been in a barn in the CA desert since the 1970s. Zero rust. He said it may not need a paint job. It will buff right out. Even without the engine, it's very intriguing.

That car in black is unbelievably sexy! :D

Indeed. A real "Gentlemen's Ferrari"

That was a long time ago. Any chance they could be found & reunited with the car? Would the engine have the same VIN as the car?

Just a thought.

Any information on the double bubble in the rear of the photo?

It's also for sale. $18K. Call the dealer. He has sources for doors, deck lid, etc.

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Yes, the engine number matches the chassis number, and it is stamped clearly on the block

That's the reason I asked for the chassis number. I know where there is (was?) a correct 330 America block, stamped with 50xx that's been in the corner of a shop in California for decades.

That could spell trouble for said shop.

No, only if it were stolen.

Remeber, it was common to cut up 'lowly' 250s and 330s for their drivetrains

I remember when you could buy nice 330 four-headlights for $15K, and I'm not that old