I bought my Ferrari shortly AFTER the divorce...
You can always sleep in your Ferrari but you can't race your House? No personal experience but I would sell the house before the Ferrari ! Cheers, Jon P. Kofod www.flatoutracing.net
Hey I went through that situation a few years ago. Ferrari was already gone but she thought she'd go after my Porsche's instead. Lucky for me they were both disassembled at the time. I therefore scattered the parts to various friends garages, I sold my 73 911S to a buddy for $100 and told her to have at the 930 if she wanted to, considering it was a shell. She settled for the 380SL (Boring) and the 85 735i..... After the divorce I bought my 73 S back for that same $100, and the 930 is still partially disassembled...so don't dispair, there are ways. Hey, didn't you say that Ferrari of your's had an engine problem and a rusted frame? Hmmm, I'll give you $1,000 for it...should be worht more than that! Good Luck!
Ok, let me try another route. If you bought your first Ferrari, and all it did was break down, cause you headaches and drain your wallet, would you swear off all Ferrari's forever? Of course not. You keep looking till you find that beautiful, pristine 275 GTB that you hang on to for the rest of your life. Same with marriage.
Well,it looks like some of us have been through the same Ringer.... But,I did find a great Lady the second time around. (Lots of my Buds have too. Including a Doctor friend.) And,she loves the Ferrari,but she's not Car Crazy like I am. But,she likes to go for rides,shows,cruise nights,etc... Thas about it. And.....she is fully aware of how big,and vast the Arizona desert is..................................................................................... (just kidding.....)
Yeah, but being married to the wrong woman can feel like having 1,110 Ferrari's dumped on top of you. I can probably live a happy life without owning ten F40's, a hundred F50's, or 1,000 Enzo's. But I would probably die if all those cars were dumped on me.
Since we are talking about divorces...and for the ones who have gone through, instead of staying "don't get married," how do you see yourself avoid the situation of losing your house/ferraris and all that? I mean if you bought the house (in your name) and your cars (all titled to you) before your marraige, and during the marriage, you kept all accounts separate, and then you got divorced, would it be possible to keep all your assets? Just trying to figure out a way not to get screwed financially before the marriage. No prenup applies in this situation, currently.
MIchael: I never planned on getting old. I actually did something about it: raced motorcycles, figuring that sooner or later, it would be a done deal, and I wouldn't have to worry about getting old. I'm 60 now, and I creek when I move, had over 28 broken bones over the years. Sometimes you get the worst of all possible worlds. Watch out for what you wish for, you have just get it. By the way been married for 33 years. As to those who didn't select properly, you have no condolences. Learn from your mistakes, make sure that the person you're thinking about marring is someone that you want to spend the rest of your life with, not some bimbo that you want to sleep with. Art
I think the idea is to then be able to buy the Ferrari BACK from the helping friend. Something tells me that he might not get it back! Of course the above theory assumes that one is going to live forever and therefore have the time and money to spend and/or sacrifice on a possibly non-ending and unsuccessful search. Even though we disagree on most issues, for a brief moment, I was actually starting to feel some compassion for Art...... But then the mood passed and I started thinking more clearly!
Arlie: Don't feel sorry for me, I don't. I did everything that I wanted to do, had pretty good success at just about everything that I wanted to do, and have no regrets about what I've done (at least what I've done on my own, perhaps not what I've done because I've been told to do it). I think that very few people can say the above. Art
BEEN THERE, DONE THAT.......GOT THE RECEIPTS. Had to sell the Lola race car, Porsche 911, and the Kubota tractor! She wanted a cash settlement. Now I have 3 Maseratis, 2 Porsches, a Mercedes, and a Ferrari. I guess it was worth the sacrifice.
Well said. And to all you jaded guys, my wife encourages my owning an F car, wants me to get the Maser GT, as do the kids, who are mostly grown and heading out the door for college. So,not all marriages end in disaster. I've been through a divorce,too. A good lawyer helps, being adult helps too. Sometimes people just should not be married to each other and that was my situation. I still talk regularly with my ex, I have primary custody of the kids, she sees them 2X a week. But through the entire divorce, we kept talking, although sometimes with raised voices, and so, can still talk now. As an aside. I hired an attorney who normally represented women. Shocked the hell out of the judge, and the other attorney when we showed up together for a custody hearing. Really changed the atmosphere, and adjusted the viewpoint of all the other players.
