All right, everyone: you’ve got until 5:00pm on Wednesday to take your shot at some sweet bargain 12-cylinder Ferrari goodness. What we have here is a genuine Resale Red 1990 Testarossa with a current price of $17k. Let’s see if we can figure out the catch…
It’s definitely not a kit. It starts, runs and drives just fine. Only 20k miles on the clock. In fact, the interior’s still great:
But, just like any other thing up for offer on the web, be wary if it’s only photographed from behind.
Whatever. It’s still cheaper than a used Camry and 1000 times more awesome. We’d just go pick up some aluminum sheet and graft it on as needed.
Check out the auction before the gavel bangs!
Jeff Glucker
Lemons candidate?
Honestly, I think you could easily get more than 18k out of everything left after the motor yankage. That would reduce your drivetrain cost to $0, and selling the original drivetrain out of whatever heap you choose to Ferrarify (although I do have a '63 Rambler I got for free…) would give you even more budget to play with.
Think about the magic of a rednecked Ferarri at Lemons! Or better yet pull the drivetrain and shove it in a Volvo or a Sprite.
This should work for a nose right?
http://cache.jalopnik.com/assets/resources/2006/0…
So very wrong and yet it feels right…
Awesome idea! I like to be the opposite for once. A Ferrari trying to be a Fiero…..that really would be great. +1 F-click for that (follower click).
That would create a black hole and kill us all.
Perfection. F clicker as well.
Here's a willing participant.
http://blacksburg.craigslist.org/cto/1432977947.h…
Eh, even so, a little frame straightening here and there, and an front end alignment and you've got yourself an awesome daily driver.
Just get some plywood and a couple of flashlights. It can be street-legal in no time.
This needs the discarded Jeep front end from Bill Harrah's Jerrari.
There are a lot of things I can learn here. For example, electric seat belts weren't just for beater Chevy Berettas. They also made the Ferrari Testarossa, considerably less awesome than I remember as a 12 year old, even though it was the star of the double-plus best car video game of all time.
For this kind of money go overboard and get rid of the rest of the bodywork and make a very ill Italian sandrail. Be the first in your trailer park to have one. Imagine the uptight cognoscenti (Hey! Pretentious Italian word!) frowning upon you, and the respect gained by those who can respect the audacity and sheer balls required to pull off this insult. That's what needs to be done here. No question. Plus, it would be scary as hell to spank down a dry wash.
I like the way you think.
Chances are, this wouldn't be all that impossible to do. If you pull the engine/trans/diff and assorted linkages, it's just a matter of plumbing and getting some CV shaft adapters.
Hell, there's a decent chance they use the same bolt pattern as the Porsche parts that the buggy dudes already use.
Sooooo, how much for the wheels and tires shipped to my door? They ARE the right bolt pattern, after all.