buying a ferrari in instalments

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buying a ferrari in instalments

Post by plugspanner » Tue Jan 21, 2014 7:09 pm

i also spotted this on ebay:-
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ferrari-Dino- ... 53fe5aceaa
is there no shame.

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Post by Jordi » Tue Jan 21, 2014 7:11 pm

Hmmm, well and truly mashed.
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Post by Darrell » Tue Jan 21, 2014 7:17 pm

Surely that not worth half a packet of stale Monster Munch.. :shock:
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Post by mk1joe » Tue Jan 21, 2014 9:35 pm

theyd have more luck listing it as modern art.

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Post by turbo-tom » Tue Jan 21, 2014 9:38 pm

seven watchers!?!? surely no one would buy that!
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Post by windsor » Tue Jan 21, 2014 9:47 pm

The funny thing i used to work for a ferrari restoration company and they would buy stuff like that just to cut anh good bits of metal out ao they can still class the body work as original ferrari when payching work is needed but thats what the owners arr like
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Post by ROBBIE » Wed Jan 22, 2014 8:44 am

windsor wrote:The funny thing i used to work for a ferrari restoration company and they would buy stuff like that just to cut anh good bits of metal out ao they can still class the body work as original ferrari when payching work is needed but thats what the owners arr like
Its the same with old steam engines only need one original part for it to be a restoration
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Re: buying a ferrari in instalments

Post by Jordi » Wed Jan 22, 2014 9:31 am

ROBBIE wrote:
windsor wrote:The funny thing i used to work for a ferrari restoration company and they would buy stuff like that just to cut anh good bits of metal out ao they can still class the body work as original ferrari when payching work is needed but thats what the owners arr like
Its the same with old steam engines only need one original part for it to be a restoration
That actually makes sense. There a workshop at Shildon restores old locos and they buy scrappers for spares and templates, especially for making new boilers. It's like a micro heavy engineering environment when you go in there. CAD (even the cardboard version) is too modern for them.
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