Favourite car??

[teflon]

Don't cry. AFAIK, Art Z. still owns the car. It was crashed on the track by a pro driver. Ferrari couldn't be bothered to race the car, so at least it was being used.

It was sent back to the factory after the crash and should have been repaired a while ago.

Oh yeah, my second favorite car to all of the F1 variants is a 962.

Greg A

[Peloton25]

Chassis #01 is/was being fully repaired after that off track incident. It actually happened with a very good driver (unnamed) at the wheel, but he got caught out on cold tires and spun the car off the track. I'm sure he felt really great about that... Art, the owner, would frequently allow others to experience the car on track and it was certainly in the hands of a capable driver from what I have heard. It's a shame it happened, but it's only a car and for some ridiculous amount of money it can (and will) be repaired.

I have some great photos of chassis #03 somewhere around here. I'll send them your way Thorst. Chassis #03 was originally owned by an American named Jim Spiro (he has a black F50 too) before it went to Australia. Some may recall the article in Forza magazine on the F50 GT when he was still the owner.

Chassis #02 does belong to a Mr Okamoto, the same Shin Okamoto who owns a white McLaren F1. I think I'd fall over if I ever saw those two cars in the same place.

>8^)
ER

[drewwtms]

I can't pick just one...

http://douging.smugmug.com/Cars/11838

[mini magic]

i love any old ferrari. Especially the 250SWB

[mini magic]

Peloton, any chance of sending the good F50 GT pix to me? and are we sure of the owner of the white car now?

[Peloton25]

Yeah sure. Rather than email them all around since they are kind of big, I'll actually put them in your SC.net forum and link them back to this thread with clickable thumbnails for anyone who wants them. You may actually have the shots already as they were originally posted on SC.net by someone from Australia.

As for that Japanese owner, I'm about 99.5% positive that he's the owner given that there was that small photo of the corner of the car taken inside his collection of Ferraris. It's a shame the people who were there only had eyes for Ferraris - you would think any car enthusiast with a camera wouldn't pass up an opportunity to take photos of an F1. I also remember running a web translator on a different japanese site that led me to believe he was the owner as well. Couple that with the location info that tvrfreak mentioned once - Mt. Rokko I think it was - which is where Mr Okamoto's collection is stored and it becomes fairly convincing. No clue which white F1 it was - #031 and #053 appear to be the two possibilities given the chassis history list.

>8^)
ER

[McLaren F1 Guy]

Favorite car for me besides any mclaren would be an Aston Martin Vanquish. They are just absolutely gorgeus.

[MalkaJB]

I mentioned in my earlier post that #003 was sold for 1.3 million dollars, but I wasn't sure if that was Australian or USD. Does anyone have any further info on that?

[MalkaJB]

...Also, I remember hearing that there were suppose to be 6 F50 GTs, but the last three were to be destroyed by court order. Does anyone know anything about that, or has anyone else heard that before?

[MalkaJB]

BTW Peloton, I believe the Mr. Okamoto that owns #002 is Mr. Yoshikuni Okamoto. Perhaps he and Shin Okamoto are related, or maybe Shin is short for Yoshikuni.

[Peloton25]

Here's most of the info you'll be able to find on the web about F50 GT:

http://www.barchetta.cc/english/All..../SN.F50.GT.htm

http://www.ferraris-online.com/Articles/SCM_0003.html

I also found this piece of info:

"The completed F50 GTs were sold by the factory under the condition that they were never to be raced by their new owners."

I know the "destroyed by court order" story is accurate, but I can't seem to find the details. I wonder if Ferrari was the one that ordered that to occur and Michelotto was resistant to do so? I can't imagine anyone else besides an F50 GT owner or Ferrari themselves having an interest in having those remaining chassis' destroyed and I wouldn't image an owner would have enough reason to create that judgement.

BTW Malka - you can use the "Edit/Delete" button on the lower right corner of your post to edit and add extra info rather than making multiple consecutive posts. I believe that Shin is short for Yoshikuni or is possibly a nickname of sorts.

>8^)
ER

[MalkaJB]

Ya, I know about Edit/Delete, but I just didn't think about it at the time. My bad.

BTW, do you know anything about the money question I asked

[Peloton25]

The auction was in the USA - RM Auctions in Scottsdale, AZ - so my strong belief is that the price was USD and not AUD.

That price in Australian dollars would be rather cheap for an F50 GT, don't you agree. I actually think it's a little low for USD as well, but in 2000 the market for specialty cars was just beginning to build up again.

>8^)
ER

[Thorst13]

Yup!!

I also think it's rather "cheap" for this monster of a car.

I got a couple of awesome mpg's with this ting moving!
In one of the files it demolishes a F40 on track!

A picture of F50GT and McLaren F1 would be a KILLER

[teflon]

Thorst13,

Are you referring to the video from Pulp racing taken at California Speedway? In that video, the F50 GT was behind the F40 and never passed it.

Or do you have a different video? Is there any chance you could post it?

Greg A