anything sexier than a black testarossa!?

With all due respect to Shamile, nothing beats the women I've shot with my black TR. Peruse the links below in my sig.

 

I know it's childish but I do love the reaction when they get an eyeful of that Flat 12 for the first time, a lot of oohing arring and sharp intakes of breath. There's nothing like a well sorted Testarossa.

 

Sebastian,

My 512TR was lowered by one of the pre-owners.

As a result, the F does reach the 310 km/h limit (on GPS) on the German Autobahns ....

But also you ruin the front spoilerlip of € 800 each time you have to pass a bump somewhere ....

Do considder IF you really want that ...
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Wow, that must have been the shortest love affair ever....

 

Not sure it was all love! But it also sounds like quite a value considering the recent work. Seriously.

 

I never had a ride, which wasn´t lowered noticeably - this means, i am getting used to it for 15 years now. Furthermore, we don´t have your well known and heavily feared "drempels" in Germany

I love the look of a lowered testarossa that much, that backstepping to OEM ride height isn´t an option at all for me.

 

Thank you very much!!! It was a 7h job to install and adjust *evil* but worth it.

The riding comfort is much better than the original KONI setup. Stiff, but not bumpy - and very stable in curves.

 

sorry about the late reply as I had forgotten about posting something here as I suddenly had been redoing like a million things in my home for spring/summer cleaning

but for me I've always kind of thought that the lines over the ends of the intakes are key to the look of the TR and well however despite that I'm kind of seriously love/hate with them as honestly I think it looks much cleaner like it is on your car right now but still in lighter colors it looks like somethings missing as I came across a straight white one with white everything, all white body, interior, spoilers just minus the lines over the air intakes and it really looked like something was seriously missing on that baby:

http://www.finecars.cc/en/detail/car/167465/index.html?no_cache=1&ret=63

so if you ever decide to put them back on I think it would probably look a hell of alot cleaner and better than stock if they were thinned out at the front to give them a more streamlined apperance to match the much smoother looking front end from the 512 M you have on yours rather than looking so thick at the ends like on the stock TRs

think like the thin bottom bristles of a comb, the thin ones at the bottom rather than the thick ones at the top which is what it reminds me of on the stock ones. which I remember caused someone to call it a flying hair dryer once in an article I read about a red one, in a nice way though and ever since then I cant help but think of the stock TR just like that when looking at it from the front.

and also maybe angled them to match the slant of the air intakes in the rear from the sides or reverse that and I've always though that was the one thing they should have redone for the 512TR revision of the TR and then mixed that in with the bumper of the 512M like you have also mixed in with the normal interior of the TR with the smooth seats and black shift knob would have been the TR that blew the LP400 - pre 1989 countach out of the water coolness wise.


that and if you car had the stock bumper I personally think ferrari should have used something like Koenig front bumper without the two protruding lips:

http://www.koenig-specials.com/bilder/bilder600px/600px/ak-testarossa-bild7.jpg

mixed in with the stock spoilers painted a semi gloss or gloss black to really bring the TR up to the level of the countach or the lotus espirt style wise while still distinctly keeping the identity of the TR intact vs the sharp wedge design of both of those said those cars

plus mixed in with the clear turn signals like your car has or the 89's two piece one, upper A Pillar mirror and koenig one on the right, 84 - 86 style center lock rims and a Nero Mettalic paintjob like the vice car was originally delivered with back in Irish Eyes.

now that would be my dream TR.

 

wow isee u have given this a lot of thought . personally i would have liked the 512tr lower front spoiler over my 512m , the other really sacreligious thing ive been mulling over is a black cf rear wing but that really may be just too ott but would give the car more Bad which i feel would go with the stealth effect. have switched to graphite 430 wheels which again updates the overall look and now on the hunt for a set of f40 seats! will keep u posted. for the shift knob, i put on a cf ball quite nice in black and am pondering over a f 50 steering wheel but its a bit small .

 

well I do kind of like the 512TR's in general over the 512M's front too but it just seems like the square front light units are too at odds with the paint job and really stick out from it to use it, like giantic ice cubes when the lights are off and its only when there lit up do they seem to blend into the car

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTsQEinS234[/ame]

however it does look it like the lower half could be painted like the TR with the front spoiler deal as the bottom spoiler on the bumper does line up with the sides, its just that well it looks like it needs someone to graft the 512M's and Ferrari F355 style turn signal and fog lights to it before its kind of an ideal sleaker inbetween of the two, well three designs with 2 variations in the original TR's case.

and yeah I can see how the spoiler would add to the badassery look of it and personally I've never really had anything against putting that kind of spoiler on it, the non F40 one koenig makes

kind of like on the Wangan Midnight TR:
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_297451-Koenig-Specials-Testarossa-1985.html

always thought it looked great and I love the rims on this which I think I actually looked up once and found they did actually exist, dont remember who made them or what the model it was as I did that awhile ago but they are real.

 

You can still buy the Koenig lights conversion kit for 5k€ ->

http://www.koenig-specials.com/bilder/bilder600px/600px/tr%20scheinwerfer%201.JPG

http://www.koenig-specials.com/bilder/bilder600px/600px/tr2.JPG

 

oh nice, but ive tried contacting koenig before, zero response to my emails!

 

Hmmm, i am already customer there and Walter Koenig replies on emails quite fast.

OK, what do you want to order? I can manage that for you.

Cheers,

Sebastian

 

im keen on a set of those headlights and their shocks and anti roll bar. if u can hook me up with them id be really grateful, will pm u my email so that you can copy me in when u email them . thanks again

 

Frames two and five are mine. No offense taken. And fun to drive. Just came back from a lapping day at Shannonville, just east of Belleville, Ontario. The Ferrari was a hit with just about everybody - from headbangers in Hondas to a retiree in a Skyline GT-R. Everytime I opened the engine cover I had a crowd. The common comment from the spectators was on the sound it made screaming past the grandstands at about seven grand in third. Makes your hair stand on end.
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It was a tough task to get my tr ready for the Oldtimer Grand-Prix at the Nurburgring - but i managed it
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The big, wide Ferraris like Testarossa and Enzo look sick in Black - absolutely! I have a White TR and love it but have to agree with the OPs assertation regarding black.

Great pics!

Cheers

 

I know this post is over a year old, but thanks for reminding me of that issue! I've been a C&D subscriber since the 4th grade (1984 to 2009 when all the old writers finally quit) and your post brought back the memory of that issue I read oh so many years ago!

A quick google search turned it up. Just grabbed it! I'll scan it and post it when it arrives. There were very few black flying mirror TRs made...I thought the magazine car might be mine but it has a black dash.

September 1986 Car Driver Ferrari Testarossa Riviera T Type Acura Integra | eBay

Maybe it subconsciously influenced me to marry a redhead and buy my flying mirror black TR
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Yeah....she was hot!!! You have the picture of her with the lipstick hanging out of the car?

Wow...the things we remember.

(I also like the girl on Motor trend with the quad turbo tr)

 

Always liked them in black, but with red interiors :0. Has anyone seen another black over red 512TR. I have seen Testarossas in this combo but not the 512TR.
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Here is my 512TR picture !
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