Alan B
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| posted on 1/5/04 at 11:17 PM |
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Will even fool the maker....
Would it bollocks...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=6212&item=2476734986&rd=1
I've never seen a real F40.....but it wouldn't fool me...
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kingr
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| posted on 1/5/04 at 11:53 PM |
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Hahaha, I certainly wouldn't count myself as a big ferrari expert, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be taken in by this one if I saw
it in the street. The V8 rumble rather than a flat plane V12 Howl would be a bit of a give away too.
The interior is totally ridiculous and the automatic stick just caps it off.
Kingr
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Alan B
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| posted on 2/5/04 at 12:12 AM |
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Damn...I hate disagreeing when someone joins your thread.....but the F40 did have V8...
However, it was 3.0 litre twin turboed 478hp @ 7000 rpm screamer, so the sound would be a giveaway....
Also agree on the interior, it bears absolutely no resemblance....
Who do they think they are fooling?
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Noodle
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| posted on 2/5/04 at 07:15 AM |
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There used to be a kit for 'converting' a TR7 into an F40.
I saw one once in Wolverhampton. It was pitiful.
Cheers,
Neil.
Your sort make me sick
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pbura
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| posted on 2/5/04 at 02:19 PM |
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Saw a spoiler like that on a 4-door Civic the other day
This car was a riot. It was covered with stickers and had a 5" tailpipe, I swear. Even my kids laughed at it, and they're not especially
attuned to cars. Wished I'd had a camera
Pete
Pete
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sgraber
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| posted on 2/5/04 at 03:54 PM |
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OMG! 
What a total piece of kaka! $700 headlights?! Each one?!!! That is just stupid and a total lie. The interior looks like someone aborted a near term
elephant fetus and didn't bother to wipe it up. Automatic?! Gimme a break! $40,000 buy it now?! Oh brother. See here - THIS is a perfect
example of what gives kit cars a bad name.  The only fooling going on in this auction is the poor fool who actually buys this thing.
That it was created at all is not what bothers me the most, it's the way the sale is hyped up by some used car salesman technique to fool the
unsuspecting into believing they are getting more than they are getting.
Graber
PS - The flat-plane v8 sounds so much better than detroit version IMHO.
Steve Graber
http://www.grabercars.com/
"Quickness through lightness"
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Peteff
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| posted on 2/5/04 at 05:40 PM |
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It fooled me because it's red It's got to be good if it's red ask any ten year old. I don't think I've heard the real
thing, not many of them round here so I can't comment on the sound sorry
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Staple balls
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| posted on 2/5/04 at 06:09 PM |
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hehehehe
it looks about 2' too short to me.
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flak monkey
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| posted on 2/5/04 at 06:17 PM |
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'ALL BODY PANELS HAVE LEAD SOUND DEADENING INSULATION'
Couldn't they find anything lighter?! 
Read the bit - 'Conditional Notes'
Cheers
David 
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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kingr
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| posted on 2/5/04 at 10:27 PM |
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quote:
but the F40 did have V8...
As I say, I'm certainly not a big Ferrari expert!! It's a bit before my time too!
Kingr
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mackie
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| posted on 2/5/04 at 10:40 PM |
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That's so poor I want to cry.
I've seen really nice replicas, that's just all wrong.
Popped round to the Ferrari/Bentley dealership when I was up in Colchester the other week and had a nose around the back lot in the evening. Wondering
along I was, 355, 360, 550, 360, and wollop! a 288 GTO, mint, just sitting there. Easily the most valuable car there and the first one I've ever
seen for real.
Now *that* is a nice car. Can't really run to £200k though. Evo reckoned it was better than an F40 (and F50 and Enzo, with the F50 coming
second).
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As for the sound of a flat plane V8, it does rock . Happened to be standing around while an old chap fired up a DFV at Goodwood, it sounded fantastic.
There's nothing quite like the off-beat rumble/roar of an old school cross plane though.
I still think it's amazing that Ferrari gets away with how loud the 360 is, maybe it's because they made the 550/575 so quiet that they
got let off or something.
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 2/5/04 at 10:54 PM |
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The interior would give it away. The F40 had a stripped out carbon fibre interior with plastic windows and a carbon dash. Was designed as a
lightweight racer.( I stand to be corrected )
Once watched one do a rearward entry into a tyre wall at KYALAMI. At that time thier was only three in the whole of Africa.
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mackie
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| posted on 2/5/04 at 11:08 PM |
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I'm not sure if it was developed as a racer or not but it was a development of the 288 GTO Evo which was designed for racing but had a fugly
aero nose:
I've seen an F40 with a luxury interior but they sure don't come like that as standard.
288 GTO, my personal fave:
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Hellfire
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 posted on 3/5/04 at 12:17 AM |
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Is the picture bad or is the wheelbase too small? Wonder what was the donor car... mind you do they have Walmart shopping trolleys (Carts) over the
water? As oppose to our Asda * Walmart one's? (Hate that name - Walmart!)
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mackie
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| posted on 3/5/04 at 12:29 AM |
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I think it's based on a pontiac fiero, kinda like an america mr2.
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JoelP
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| posted on 3/5/04 at 09:41 AM |
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i was gonna say you can blatently see the mr2 underneath, but then the description said something else! ah well...
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