959 for sale
08-16-2012, 07:51 PM
#35
Drifting
Back in the late 70's, a German gentleman (Rudy was his name) down the street from my parent's house in Scarborough brought in a full Euro spec Ferrari 512BB Berlinetta Boxer without any North American pollution control or safety equipmenat installed, he told me the car was brought in as a "show car", as a result he must exhibit the cars X times a year in the public.
What a gorgeous car, it is to this day still one of my all-time favorite, the styling sitll looks as fresh today as it was 30 years ago, although the interior is clearly very outdated.
I saw this 512BB at a Hot Rod show in the International Center one year, the plate was covered but I could tell from how the bottom of the license plate was purposely bent that it was the car from down the street.
Imagine my horror when a red-neck hot-rodder leaned over the crowd control rope, which was only a couple of feet away from the car, and pounded the aluminum panel with his fist while asking out loud: "Is this fibreglass?!"
I know Rudy's wife worked at MTO at the time and was able to fetch a standard plate with "FBB 512" on it long before vanity plate was even available, wonder if she was able to "assist" in getting the car into Canada!!
What a gorgeous car, it is to this day still one of my all-time favorite, the styling sitll looks as fresh today as it was 30 years ago, although the interior is clearly very outdated.
I saw this 512BB at a Hot Rod show in the International Center one year, the plate was covered but I could tell from how the bottom of the license plate was purposely bent that it was the car from down the street.
Imagine my horror when a red-neck hot-rodder leaned over the crowd control rope, which was only a couple of feet away from the car, and pounded the aluminum panel with his fist while asking out loud: "Is this fibreglass?!"
I know Rudy's wife worked at MTO at the time and was able to fetch a standard plate with "FBB 512" on it long before vanity plate was even available, wonder if she was able to "assist" in getting the car into Canada!!
Last edited by aviography; 08-16-2012 at 08:16 PM.
08-16-2012, 07:53 PM
#36
Instructor
but back in the late 80s it was pretty much the "dogs bollocks" as the Brits would say, along with the F40
Yes they sure were the dogs dangly bits, they gave birth the the supercar IMO
Last edited by SiFi1886; 08-16-2012 at 08:08 PM.
08-17-2012, 12:44 AM
#37
Instructor
True - back then it was unreal and also so much more useable than the F40. In todays terms however, you can get that performance in a used 996tt with a couple of turbos and a chip!
08-17-2012, 11:56 AM
#38
Team Owner
yes Richard I was at Appleby college when they had the car displayed in the middle of the field. a couple of weeks later i went to look at a car at Autoforum and if you remember that place you had to walk through the mechanics area to get to the back warehouse .. i go walking through and there is a strange looking engine on a bench .. it was simply monstrous ... and up in the air was the very same 959 with no engine (they were replacing the clutch ) . So i spent about an hour looking it over ... dont get that view of a 959 very often .. 
08-17-2012, 02:41 PM
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I don't know when this Red 959 Torontoworker is talking about was registered and driven on Canadian roads, but back around 1993-94, Lawrence Stroll imported a silver 959 that he was driving on a daily basis in Montreal, with a Quebec plate on it. That could possibly be the first one that was driven in Canada.
Back then, Stroll's cars were stored in the basement of the company I was working for. Amazing Ferraris (Daytona, 512BB, F40, F50) and this silver 959. I could see this car everyday.
Back then, Stroll's cars were stored in the basement of the company I was working for. Amazing Ferraris (Daytona, 512BB, F40, F50) and this silver 959. I could see this car everyday.
08-17-2012, 04:41 PM
#41
Drifting
The person your talking about - who also has quite the Ferrari collection - has a lot of resources I hear...
Anything is possible as far as plating cars in PQ as long as you know people.
The other option I hear that was quite popular with the 'money class' is temporary importation. You can import a car into Canada that does not meet our standards as long as you have the 'intention' of modifying the vehicle within a 1 year time frame. There are several people who have done this and then simply ship the car back to Europe before the deadline and then bring in another model they fancy and begin the process again. It was really popular in the 80's and 90's when there were models built for Europe only that had a large difference in performance compared to the US spec models. Now it's not as popular given that European manufacturers are building to US spec - or at least close to US spec across car lines to save money.
There is an Ariel Adam running around Toronto that I saw up close and in person as it parked beside me in the Direct Energy building during the Toronto Indy. I've read the explanation of 'why' it got plates - yet looking at the car up close - there appears to be areas that do NOT meet TC standards for importation. So there appears to be a WIDE approval standard going on here...
Same for the Zonda R sitting in Milton. Now they 'say' they won't be attempting to plate the car and it's only for track days. Yet I've never seen it at Mosport (our people run the track days there) and haven't heard it being tracked anywhere else. I still believe this car is here for work towards a TC sticker. I know Pagani once told a reporter that he had crash data available for this type of chassis so you have to wonder if a data file would be good enough for Transport Canada?
08-17-2012, 05:21 PM
#42
Race Car
08-18-2012, 11:30 AM
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