Thank you Brexit: new car in the stable (tips and tricks)

Was quite close to that 456 last year as I saw the ad.
At the end I turned right and choosed a Gransport as 4-seater.

Check out the pics:
http://bilder.bild.de/fotos-skaliert/was-macht-der-schwedenkoenig-mit-seinem-ferrari-im-stau-auf-der-a2--21727621-18554862/2,c=0,h=478.bild.jpg

search key words:
Carl Gustaf im Stau

 

Speedmaster, Here's a link to another thread about a TDF/beige 456M GT that was said to have been owned by Swedish royalty and the subject of my cryptic quiz.

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/456-550-575-sponsored-bradan/466507-our-king-selling-his-456-a.html

 

If you click through to the vonbraun.com link, the last image shows two cars, but no explanation is given...
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I've seen it in Lyon (France) when I was searching mine

This 456 GT was originaly blue azzuro but has been repainted in grey to be sold.
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I remember seeing a video of king Gustav's Ferrari having a problem (no start) at a gas station, but I cannot find it again.

 

AFAIK VAT will reset in some years after car has been outside EU. Tempted to say it will happen in 36 months but not sure if I remember that right. In any case there is limit on how long car can remain outside before VAT needs to be paid again on importation to EU. So it might not be that easy to get them back inside EU market later on.

There is also 10% import tax for outside EU build cars. This will have to be paid for used cars also. I think there is some time limit also to EU build cars which have been outside EU for long enough but this could only apply if car has never been registered in EU.

In any case I can see why UK classic car dealers can be very worried about the future.

 

Congratulations

If you Google Kungen Ferrari 456 you will find a few more photos. This makes your car a major collectible amongst recent Ferraris.

A few quick stories not related to your 456 but to King Carl Gustav and Ferraris.

In May 1999 I was in Stockholm and found myself on a saturday afternoon outside a closed Ferrari Sweden workshop in Lidingo an island which is part of Stockholm and where I was born) and there was a 360 inside. I was the US correspondent for Automobil the main Swedish car magazine and when I mentioned this to the editor in chief the next day he was very surprised and said that so soon after its world premiere it could only have been for the King.

Well in the south of Sweden, in Skane a few months later a 360 was stopped by police going seriously fast, which is rare in Sweden as people are very disciplined. The officer was a bit hot under the collar as he walked up to the window of the parked car, asking what do you think you are doing?! Then he had the shock of his life: Oh sorry your Majesty, I did not know it was you your majesty, my apologies for disturbing you The King just calmly took the ticket

Not Ferrari related but:

1-In November 2007 I interviewed for a book Verne Ben Heiderich who had been importer of Lamborghini in Spain (as well as Porsche & BMW) he made a sizable fortune and there were many photos in the lobby of his palatial home above Madrid with the old King of Spain of course...and also the King of Sweden, when I commented on that he showed me photos of them with other friends at a private racetrack in Germany on a BMW tuition day all in white racing suits.

2- once in winter the King went to see the Swedish rally probably to give the start and was excited afterwards by the driving he had witnessed so decided he would drive himself home on the snowy roads to have fun with his chauffeur and body guards riding along and holding on for dear life...well he put the car in a ditch Then he said it is my fault give me a shovel for the snow as well
He keeps his cars in Stockholm less than a mile from the Royal Palace in a military facility.

He is not the first in the Royal family to have Ferraris.

Best regards,

Marc

 

That's a shame, resale grey joining resale red for these more austere times ?

On the movement of LHD cars ...

FTSE is back up, Trotsky's just been murdered by Cameron...it's all going to be fine in the UK!



Maybe ...

 

The only certainty ahead of us is that there we are all looking at a prolonged period of uncertainty.

You give the impression that you are across the numbers but they don't quite add up from where I’m sitting...

Furlonger still lists that car for sale at £69,990. You say that you have done a deal to buy it at a discount but your €800 figure would only appear to work at £80k…

e.g. £80k at 1.20 is of course €96,000. If Sterling was then to fall 1 cent to 1.19 it could make the car €800 cheaper for you. e.g. €95,200.

However, in the past 24hrs we appear to have seen Sterling recover slightly from 1.20 to 1.22.

Therefore if, for arguments sake, you agreed to pay £80k yesterday, your un-hedged settlement figure today will be €97,600 e.g. €1,600 more than if you had locked-in yesterday at 1.20 - but perhaps I’m missing something?

 

A Dutch au pair? Interesting. You know that the first Swedish export worldwide ahead of Volvos and Ikea is...au pairs? Ask any Swedish woman living abroad married to a man of that country and half the time that is the answer about why she first came to that country, such as the Swedish au pair my young Swedish cousins had in Washington DC, broight along by their parents, well she is now living there married. Anyway back on topic:

Did not know he had a Dino but I am sure some Ferraristi in Sweden were aware of that, I haven't lived there since 1968 when I was four so not fully up to speed

MS

 

Shipping across the pond has gone up about 20% I've found out.....

 

It's a good time for Europeans to buy in the UK, until the next Eurozone crisis which won't be before you pay the balance on the 456 but might be before the 20th anniversary of the 550's launch...and so it yo-yos. The only certainty, unfortunately, is that it will never be cheap for any of us to buy those beautifully maintained cars on Swiss websites. Because Switzerland, uh, isn't a member of the EU. Hmm.

And while UK car dealers may suffer in the Brexit future they are having a ball right now!

 

I'd fly over and drive it myself

SpeedmasterNL: great buy! Ziet er geweldig uit.

 

Wij konnen ook een V12 meet in Londen hebben als jij koopt alle van onze Ferraris!

 

OH **UK! Sterling is down again today..

Some more commentary on the potential impact on the collectors car market...

https://www.classicandsportsfinance.com/will-brexit-affect-classic-car-market/

Happy days!

 

The pound bottomed at about $1.08 in the past. There were bets going at the time on when it would be 1:1, but it never happened. My first time living in the UK in the early 80s, it peaked at about $2.48. Friends who had bought houses earlier in the late 70s made a killing.

 

That's an interesting website. You discover a new niche of internet every day..

Although they aren't saying anything that hasn't been said on this thread, really...