Maranello UK archives

Try this:

[email protected]

If you have a problem let me know, I do have his personal contact details.

 

He's very good Greg, from memory it only cost me a small fee (I think about 20 pounds or something) and I got copies of all the correspondence from Marenello Concessionaires and the factory.

 

brokers.

 

Ditto, he is a great guy and actually wants to help people find out their cars history unlike the bean counters at Ferrar s.p.a who just want to make money from their poor record keeping.

 

I'm in that club too.

 

hahaha...fantastic.

I was quite surprised about the info he had on my 328GTB too.

 

Wow, that's some mileage for the original 18 months, they obviously had some guts (and $!). One thing I didn't share with you previously was that despite Tony's assistance there has been a serious of bizarre incidents that have so far prevented me from identifying the second owner of my car. Read on if you want a good laugh!

The first was I found a receipt under the carpet of my car for a relay replacement at Cooper Car Sales in 1979. They were eventually were taken over by Greypauls and when I contacted them by phone I spoke to several people but they couldn't help, but by accident some old guy in their workshop picked up the phone and it turned out he previously worked at Coopers (the only remaining employee from that time apparently). He remembered my car and told me it was owned by a "famous person" in the music business for many years but wouldn't tell me their name, but he did give me a number to call to verify the story. After several attempts I finally spoke to a gentleman who sounded quite elderly and he did confirm he was once the owner, but refused to tell me who he was! Arrrgghhh!!

The second was I made a request with the DVLA (the UK motor vehicle authority) to trace the registration history of my car, which you can do in the UK. After some weeks a letter arrived and for a few minutes I thought I had the answer, but then I realised someone at the DVLA had made a mistake. The first owner (Sir Max Aitken / Lord Beaverbrook) had personal number plates on the car (MAX 777) and these were switched to a Ferrari 400GT when he sold the 308 in 1977, but some turkey at the DVLA traced his number plates instead of the new one allocated to my car. Sighh.....

And finally after an article appeared in the "Lost & Found" section of C&SC about my car I received an email from a person claiming to be the previous owner. It was all genuine and sounded promising but then he sent me a copy of some service receipts and I realised the rego numbers didn't match. Back to square 1.

After all this I am more determined than ever now to find out who that second owner was (and if he's reading this I hope he takes pity on me!)

 

ok...good news...you can relax now. It was me.

 

Ha ha, like me I suspect you you were a bit young to be driving Ferrari's in 1977 (well I just was but I certainly couldn't afford one!)

 

as a matter of fact, that's the year i bought my first Ferrari (waiting for the usual....)

 

OK, that's what was recommended to me as well. I started to go down that path and had no luck. I really am looking forward to meeting at some point Owen, we are both trying to find similar information. My car too had most of its mileage done in the UK. It came here in around 1984 with 36,000 miles on the clock, and it currently sits on 48,000 miles.

 

how many in the last 3 years?

 

Actually the DVLA info I did recieve was otherwise very useful, but it missed that one crucial point about the second owner which was all I wanted. Mine came here last year with me and has done 73,000 (half of those on race tracks in the UK), and as a result it growls very nicely and puffs smoke at the appropriate times! I've booked to go on the October carby run so will hopefully catch you then, but can catch up at Phil's one day before then if you're around, would love to see your car, PM me if you do.

 

Yeah? Did it look like this?
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that looks like the bastard child of a miura which screwed a 959.

 

errrr...no
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lol...recognise the street?
over 30 years later.
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and again......I wonder how this guy's scuderia is going?
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Mmmm, interesting number plate. Income Tax Professionals???????

 

Ummmm, let me think, not many but I'd have it as a guess around Zero, unless you know something I don't.

 

only about condensate pumps.