[javadog]

Not easy. That's why I sold my last one, an '86 328GTB. Things I could no longer buy from a Ferrari dealer:

shocks
brake rotors
brake pads
limited slip clutch plates

I could go on, but those are pretty basic items, so why bother looking for the hard parts...

Some parts were available through the aftermarket. I found some parts in one place, others somewhere else, etc. Some of what I needed was sourced from the US, the rest came from the UK.

Yes, I know I could have rebuilt the Konis, so I don't need to hear about that. And, I could have used aftermarket brake pads, had I wanted to experiment with that. Brake rotors were hit and miss. For a while, Brembo had some. Then those were all gone. Then somebody found a stash of them somewhere and people started buying them up to squirrel away. Those are probebly gone by now, I haven't looked.

The point was that Ferrari basically told the world a few years ago that it wasn't interested in keeping parts for the older cars and companies like Maranello/Rutlands were considered the new source, for whatever was available.

I can't foresee the point in time that a company like Porsche would not be able to supply something as basic as a brake rotor.

JR