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I like the white...a nice change from the overused red. I've seen one of these in black also years ago.

Edited by Rob Hall
Posted

Ferraris painted red are a cliché. It looks great in white!

Like a burger and fries are a cliché? Or dinner and a movie?

Some clichés work. ^_^

Posted

Some clichés work. ^_^

I agree with you Harry, but some times you have to dare to be different to stand out from the crowd. Imagine if Elvis would have stuck with Gospel instead of rock, things would be a lot different today. :lol:

Posted

I agree that a white Ferrari stands out from the crowd.

So would a Harley with training wheels.

It just doesn't work for me.

Posted (edited)

I think I would have gone black or a metallic or pearl dark blue or even a gunmetal gray if I was going to do something other than red. White just seems to hide a lot of details on that car that having light reflecting off the darker colors should accent them without striping them.

Edited by Joe Handley
Posted

I agree that a white Ferrari stands out from the crowd.

So would a Harley with training wheels.

It just doesn't work for me.

I take it you've seen those Harley's running around here too Harry?

Posted

I'll take a brown Ferrari...

See, now that doesn't look too bad! Although I'd call it "root beer" instead of "brown." :D

I agree with Joe... a darker/stronger color just seems to work better.

Posted

I'll take a brown Ferrari...

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Eh, no thanks. That's almost as ugly as the brown Volt I passed in St. Charles today.

:D

LOL, I'll take that as a yes then :P

Posted

Interesting low-number plate on that car. Does MOT allow the family to retain a registration number or does it go with the car? I also thought all their license plates were sequential from the early 1900s up?

Charlie Larkin

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I did a bit more research, and yes, it turns out that this WAS Chris Evans' car -- he sold it through Talacrest in 2010. When he had it, it had the number plate "GTO 288", though.

Charlie -- in the UK you can't have plates "personalised" to suit whatever you want , so no "BIGSPNDR", but you can trade and sell on original number plates that have a valid UK registration number, which starts with A1 (which I have seen) and goes via F1 (which now adorns a white Veyron belonging to Mr Kahn, a Range Rover blinger of Bradford, which I saw outside my local Indian restaurant a couple of years back) and runs all the way through to YG14WNA which could be on my ride today. I take great pleasure in making up valid number plates for my car models, some for my name (my 288 carries the plate M477 GTO) or for relevant words (M1URA and MA53RTI).

So the plate on this is the new owner's personal plate -- and I can't decide whether it's "glow" or "blow", but the latter might be a bit too much of an advert for a drug dealer!

bestest,

M.

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Heresy I know, but I've always kinda liked dark green on Ferraris. Though this is a 308, it shares a lot of major styling cues with the 288 pictured above.

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And I like BRG on a 360...

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...and even an F12 Berlinetta

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