For petrol heads of a certain age – the poster on our bedroom wall, the dream car, the exotic, the temptress if you will… those cars are the ones that corrupted our souls and invited us into the enthusiast world for the first time. They are defined by painstakingly passionate craftsmen. Vehicles with luscious curves, exaggerated features, spicy accents and fiery red paint schemes from manufacturers with names that end in vowels…
But thanks to misconceptions, myths and limited availability it’s not often at the top of collectors’ minds unless they’re willing to “take that risk or make that plunge!” into the worlds of Ferrari, Maserati, Lamborghini, Alfa Romeo and others.
With the help of returning “What Should I Buy” panelists and Italian Car Owners and Experts such as William Ross from the Ferrari Marketplace, Chris Bright from Collector Part Exchange, Don Weberg from Garage Style Magazine along with petrol-head extraordinaire Mark Shank, we aim to prove the nay-sayers wrong, and find YOU the perfect Italian Collector Car!
Check out the follow-along notes, transcript and more details for this episode at GTM
In our discussion we cover topics like:
- We are focused on Italian Cars… collectors, sports cars and exotics, etc.
- Our audience is the collector / buyer who has always dreamed of buying an Italian car, but has been too afraid to cross that line, maybe it’s because of bad word-of-mouth, horror stories, misconceptions on parts availability, etc. – we want to myth bust that!
- Target price ranges are always <$50k, $50k-$150k, and the $150k+ buyers based on current economic climates.
- “bang for the buck” is always key, and don’t be afraid to think outside the box on suggestions. example: cars designed by Italians, think Volvo P1800 ES – penned by a former Ferrari employee. Or any of the Zagato, Bertone, Ghia cars that are out there.
- The grey-market and 20+ year cars are open season, so let’s bring up things like the popularity of the Lancia Delta Integrale HF’s (as an example) which are finding their way here now. How difficult are these cars to import?
- Suggestions for good “Investment Italians” – ie: Donovan has said, the Gallardo’s are the hot ticket right now for future growth/sell potential – what else is in that space?
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If you started off this episode as the collector / buyer who has always dreamed of buying an Italian car, but has been too afraid to cross that line, maybe it’s because of bad word-of-mouth, horror stories, misconceptions or parts availability, – we hope that the advice our panelists provided tonight, muted some of those fears and you begin to turn your attention and investment dollars toward an Italian Collector Car!
Thanks to our panel of Petrol-heads!
We want to thank William Ross from the Ferrari (and Porsche) Marketplace, also Sales Director for Fuererbach Porsche; you can reach out to him directly at william@ferrarimarketplace.com
Chris Bright from Collector Part Exchange, you can find them at www.collectorpartexchange.com or @collectpartexchange on social.
If you want to continue this conversation, be sure to jump over to GarageRiot – where Donovan Lara has created thee social media platform for car enthusiasts, www.garageriot.com also available as mobile app for your IOS and Android device
Even though he wasn’t able to join, we want to thank John Caffese from PMX for sending in some recommendations, you can check out PMX at www.projectmotoring.com your source for customer and bespoke safety gear @projectmotoring on social
Don Weberg from Garage Style Magazine and their new and improved website at www.garagestylemagazine.com and @garagestylemagazine on social!
And finally Mark Shank, who’s been on several great episodes, and more to come on Break/Fix so tune into the show to learn more about Mark!
