Lots of errors in that description of #55233. It is GTO #129, not #135. Engine #00013. Gearbox #133. Body #128. Warranty Card #22795. Ignition key #24143 A. Door key #4102. 15 February 1985 factory build start date. 21 March 1985 sold new through official dealer M. Gastone Crepaldi S.a.s. in Milan/Italy to first Italian owner and race driver Massimo Sigala (born 7 January 1951 in Messina, Sicily). Here's a pic I took a few years ago in the UK. Marcel Massini Image Unavailable, Please Login
55233, some of the numbers. Marcel Massini Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
What possible reason could there be for putting on a public forum things like door key number or ignition key number? All the information any potential thief or car cloner would ever need. Just as well it isn't my car!
Thanks Marcel, Fair enough. I don't think I'd like all those details of my cars made public. Just seems like a possible security risk. However, since I don't own this 288 and I'm not likely to be buying it...
FYI anyone with an iphone or camera can walk around a car parked in public and photograph a key lock number or any other details. I know several people in my home country who do just that. And they are not thieves, criminals or crooks but just data collectors and historians. One of these has a pretty complete database of F40 door lock numbers. Think about it. Please enjoy a wonderful Sunday! Marcel Massini
I honestly don't know. If I or one of my clients were a potential buyer, I'd find the information Marcel posted very useful, as we can see from the last few posts, half the time sellers are clueless and don't know the car's full & correct history. From a security standpoint, IMO public disclosure of it's full details is likely to have an adverse effect upon anyone thinking of stealing the car, knowing full well that all the car's markings/stampings/key details are well-established.
If you were a clueless buyer you're not likely to be looking on here for information. My point is rather that you don't make things any easier than necessary for someone of criminal intent. If you put something in text in a public website then it is easily searchable by anyone for any purpose, good or bad. I really don't see any benefit to having things like key numbers in the public domain. It would be just as easy to say "contact me for more if anyone is genuinely interested in checking out this car with a view to buying". It isn't all that hard to find out someone's address if you really want to but I wouldn't be posting up my address on a public website along with the dates I'm on holiday. Chances are my house would be fine but I'd look a bit of an idiot if it wasn't. Anyway, like I say, it isn't my car and if you want to post up all the details of your cars including the details of their keys then go right ahead.
I said some sellers are clueless, not buyers, and as we can see some sellers fit that description with errors & omissions as posted above. Each to their own, however we live in the information age, these cars are public items which are publicly registered to be used on public roads and shown at pubic events, I think people appreciate the disclosure and we are better off for it.
Marcel Massini Could you tell me the #55173 where it was sold before coming Spain? (the story before enrolling in Spain in 1997)
Thanks Marcel. One strange thing: do you know why the engine serial number is so low? 129th GTO with 13th engine while GTO sn 55223 features engine 137 and 55235 engine 142? I assume the data you provided correspond to the original configuration of the car and 0013 was the engine fitted during assembly. Was 0013 a test motor the retrofitted and refurbished for the serial production? Fred.
Nothing unusual or strange at all. Not a test engine. It is wrong to assume that everything is perfectly in sequence and in order. Engines were built individually and separately and only once completed destined for a car. For example, S/N 56753 has engine #43 but is the 195th GTO built. Marcel Massini
In the Riyadh Silverstone Auctions (Friday) there was a 288 GTO for sale. Anyone know anything about it? and what price did it sell for?
DeCad always provides a first class presentation. He does not look well though, lost a lot of weight.
Absolutely love this video. ADC is a pilot, too, and had an aircraft made near our hometown in South Carolina. My husband had the chance to sit down and chat with him. Total class act is right! Thank you, Leonardo Fiorivanti and Ferrari for designing this beauty of an automobile. Petrolicious showcases it just right. That last scene on the mountain top is breathtaking. Wonder if the shifting feels anything like the Boxer. Did the gear box change much in this homologation?