Restored 365 for 14,200 on Autotraderclassics.com

Scam. The car pictures is not even a 365. It is a 400,412...

 

uh nope, that is a 3 tailight, knock off wheel, 365.

It is #18231. Steve Alderman's old car. It was for sale in 2007 for $58,000 but sold for $40,000. It was on Ebay last month for $40k.

 

Seems too good to be true, fully refreshed, etc., & a red head at that. It does have the 400i S2 / 412 mirrors however.

 

Mirrors threw me off. Gorgeous car. I can't believe it is $14k.

 

Yeah me either Doc.
I'll tell you what, if you can buy it for $14k I'll let you make a quick $10,000 and take it off your hands for $24k. Then not only will I drive up to your place to pick it up (or we could meet 1/2 way at my ranch in Centerville, TX) but I'll buy you dinner as a thank you.

 

Which suck by the way because you can't see anything with them. I sure miss the larger series 1 mirriors from my first 400i

 

This person also has 3 others for sale at to good to be true prices.

 

Skeptical about the price...

But what a gorgeous car.

Would love to have that for $14K.

 

Seller also has three other cars for sale, all under the money, including a 1963 Porsche 356 Cabriolet for $12,800. a 1970 Plymouth Barracuda for $13,700, a 1965 Austin Healey 3000 MKIII for $12,600.

Crappy cars can be made to look nice for internet photos but still, something is fishy about all of these cars at these prices.

 

Maybe Aidan will trade ya. But I know what you mean....doesn't matter anyway. W/spirited driving, everything just fades away.

 

Somehow, I just KNEW this thread was going to be about that car. I was just inquiring about it a few weeks ago, along with that "mystery conversion" convert....

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?p=139053429#post139053429

Wish there was more recent knowledge here about this particular car. The $40K Hail-Mary sale didn't work, but maybe it's good for the $14.2K number. Same questions about when that "This 365 was completely mechanically redone at 14,500 miles on the odometer" date was, for the seals, if nothing else.

Interesting that it was listed by Joe in Oregon, now by Larry in Philly.

 

And now my friend, the firsta rule of Italian driving.

Whatsa behind you is not important!

 

<laughing> well done Ash, well done.

 

but get a load of this....

http://www.autotraderclassics.com/find/vehicle/vehicleDetail.xhtml?adId=208077&actionMethod=find%2Fvehicle%2FvehicleSearchResults.xhtml%3AuShipController.init&conversationId=94215

 

"Perfect First Car" ROFLMAO

 

Dave
When I bought my 400i from Steve Alderman in 2006, he had a silver 365. I know he has turned over several 400's, but I did not know he ever had a second 365. Are you sure this was his?

I live near Philly, I may call today and see the car and report back to you all.
Ken

 

The area code given with the phone number (768) does not exist. There were some references in my search to telemarketers using this A/C.
Ken

 

Scam. There was a 365 GT4 2+2 on Ebay from Oregon recently and it looks like they stole the pictures and blocked out the rear tag.
I've been exposing the Ferrari Ebay scammers and it looks like they've moved to AutoTrader.

 

Do people blindly send funds without having the car itself checked-out? I just don't get how this is supposed to work, skeptic that I am.

 

I've gotten emails from scammers mentioning Ebay's $50K insurance policy, intimating: don't worry about sending amounts under that.

Ebay insures transactions up to $50K as long as one follows all the rules in the fine print, which usually means you're not insured.

The scammers are either looking for a deposit or for the one idiot who would send them money. They like old Ferraris because the VINs are not in traditional data bases.

 

AutoTrader also has pictures of a lovely yellow 1972 Daytona for $9000.-
The scam on the Daytona is a better deal.

 

I actually got a responce today after I emailed the seller of the 365 for $14200:

So sorry for my late reply but due some personal problems I wasn’t able to handle the car sale. I still have the car for sale so if you are
still interested just let me know so i can give you more details and
where are you located because i've posted the ad in many location.

Larry

 

This car belonged to me in Oregon and I just sold it and delivered it to a gentleman in Seattle. The photos have been hijacked.

Joe Potter

 

typical response and theres thousands of "too good to be true" sales on autotrader and they all say the exact same thing; "I've had to move and the car is in storage, we can handle this through escrow company and car will be shipped right to your house"

There has to be ALOT of stupid people out there that keep falling for it otherwise they wouldn't keep doing it...