New Finnish 512TR owner

Hello fellow TR/512/M owners!

I recently made a purchase of a 1993 512TR from an auction in Japan, thought to post to say hi to everyone on this forum. I've been on the look for one of these for a while, and now I found one that fits the specs I had for the car. I also have a 1993 348 Spider that I rebuilt (project thread here: http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/348-355-sponsored-bradan/394280-348-rebuilding-burnt-spider.html) and I thought that she deserves to have a big sister. So the coming summer I'll have two "cheese grater" sided F-cars in my small collection

I also have two GT-Rs, a 1000hp R35 that I've built and a rare R33 Nismo 400R, not sure if anyone over here has any interest in Japanese cars though.

The car is a Grade 4,5/5, has 67k kms on it, has been regularly serviced and has a sports exhaust (don't know which one). I'll have to change the red floor mats to black ones, and I'm not sure how I feel about the carbon fibre pieces in the interior, I have a feeling I'd prefer stock, but we'll see.

Looking forward to getting the car in late June, it's now being shipped to Finland. 12-cylinder symphony awaits!

Here's some pictures of the 512 that I got from my agent in Japan:

512TR Story by juhanisalo | Photobucket

 

For sure! I've seen your DIY posts on Finnish Ferrari Club facebook group (and on here as well) and thought that it'd be nice to get to know an experienced BB/TR/512 guy. I think I've seen your BB at Sports Car Breakfast Club a few years back. I work and live in Shanghai for most of the year, but will be in Finland for summer holiday and some occassional trips. I'm coming there just before midsummer fest, my car should arrive on June 23rd.

 

Ok! Let's see how I feel about them when I've had the car for a while. Any interest changing red floor mats to black ones? ;D

 

Sometimes the Japanese have a quite questionable taste... seen some 512s with pretty wild interior colors on the auction lists. Competely bright red etc.

 

Nice to have also another 400R owner here! Rare things them, yours is the third one I know of in Europe. Mine is chassis no. 034, which one do you have? Haven't really been driving mine a lot because it's not registered, should probably do that so I could stretch its legs freely. I've driven it for a few weekends on temporary plates and it really is such a race car!

The R35 is the car I drive mostly, still have to finish mapping it after my latest upgrades. 348 needs a belt change, I hope I'll have the time to do it the coming summer. 512 won't be registered for two years, when it's 25 years old the tax will drop significantly. I'll get temporary plates to take it out a few times on summer holidays. You guys are so lucky in Sweden that you don't have same kind of crazy tax system on cars... for example a new 488GTB costs 465.000€ in Finland, while in Sweden it seems to be around 285.000€. An Aventador is about 700.000€ with taxes! No wonder the Finnish supercar scene is so anemic compared to Sweden.

 

Oh, that was your car in the videos! I've always thought it's a British one. So that means I only know of two cars, both midnight purple. My 400R is the on that was on gtr.co.uk forums. The car used to be owned by my friend before me, but he was forced to sell and I wanted to give it a good home.

Actually it's not that difficult because of the circumstances, if I can take it out on two weekend a summer for two years, I'll be happy. Rest of the time I can enjoy the other cars. I only spend about 2 months a year in Finland, so don't have that much chance to drive anyway. I'm working in China at least until summer of 2018, and if I move back home then, I can register the car and drive all I want. Hardest part is living abroad 10 months a year and missing driving and working on my cars!