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Originally Posted by drcoastline
Seems your first paragraph is more subjective than fact save "the nart spyders nearly all had borannis... save a few." So while they may look "odd" in you opinion they would be correct. Especially for a car that is race prepped like this one. Which would also make the roll bar correct. As TRE proved in his post.
No I did not miss your post "lovely work. almost too pretty to paint!" came after Reveir posted the three photos of the unpainted bodies. It's not difficult to conclude the comment was directed at those two cars, not the nart replicar.
I think all of us car guys would agree if you took a perfectly good donor 400 and destroyed it, that would be unfortunate. However, since we know nothing about the donor car maybe it was to far gone to save? If for no other reason than from a monetary stand point. 400's don't bring much money. Since nart's run in the tens of millions maybe the builder thought a recreation using genuine Ferrari parts would be fun and make good use of a derelict 400, and save himself $20,000,000.00. I bet there are plenty of people that would drop a $1,000,000.00 to buy that car.
I don't think anyone made mention of trying to enter this car in Ferrari owners clubs or Ferrari sanctioned events? Of course I can see why they wouldn't aside from the fact it is not real. It quite possibly could be better than an original since the 400 components have 30 years newer technology.
Perhaps the only fact in your posts is that "Ferrari looks to crush replica's"? I don't know. Maybe they do. I do know they have sued to stop having replicars that are to correct from being built and sold, as was the case with at least one California replicar. Based on your screen name I think this says it all... "owners tend to look down on the replicars"
Oh yes... "Imitation is the highest form of flattery". Keep calm it won't diminish the value of an original. |
three of the four nart spyders you posted are conversions done by various shops and NOT to be confused as nart spyders completed by luigi and coco chinetti. two of the cars are actually 2 cam cars as well.
I am only familiar with the campy shod spyder as the one you posted by denise mccluggage. she was a fine lady.
all of the 275 nart spyders that I am aware save for the car DM raced were sold w/ borranis as were all of the 365 gts/4 micholotti spyder conversions that coco commissioned...there was a micholotti coupe that coco raced and it did have alloys.
I grew up in Greenwich. ct. senior was a neighbor on king st. I grew up with nart Ferraris as well as those owned by my father. coco was in cos cob on holly way. I was a fixture in his garage and must have washed his cars more than he did. I think he enjoyed the free labor from a starry eyed kid
I have been a multiple ferrari owner for for over 20 years (308 gtb qv, 246 gts, 512 bbi). I am really not trying to joust with you but I know that I don't want to let your "schooling me on Ferrari history go.
I will also post an article regarding Ferrari crushing replicas. it is really quite astounding to see the lengths they have gone...as well as alarming.