When a Ferrari 360 with a very low price pops up for sale, you go ahead and buy it no matter how bad it looks, because it has been your dream car since teenagehood, and then regret it for the rest of your adulthood. This might be the case with this 360 that has been sitting parked outside for almost five years.
The owner of the Locking Diff YouTube channel got a phone call from his friend one day. Curtis told him he had found the perfect Ferrari 360 Spider. Curtis had driven all the way to Atlanta to see the car.
It was worse than he thought, but they went ahead and bought it anyway. There is not an inch of paint on that front bumper that escaped cracking. Furthermore, the car comes with the best anti-theft feature: the steering wheel is locked with the wheels turned to the right.
So dragging it off the trailer is going to be challenging, to say the least. At least, it has not been involved in a crash. None that they know of, anyway.
They can't close the hood because they won't be able to open it again, because there is no battery or key. So, they use duct tape to keep it in place. They can't roll the windows up because there is no battery or key. And leaving them partially open is the only way for them to open the doors.
The rear window has been the victim of the sun, so it will need to be replaced. The soft top has holes in it, and there are spots everywhere on the red paint. Some scratches and dents show up every here and there, three of them quite visible on the hood.
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The rear license plate reads, "Don't laugh. It's paid for." How much it was paid for, we are not told, though. And the worst part is around it. The bumper is completely split apart. That is fiberglass, so fixing it is going to be quite a headache.
Because the front wheels are angled, they use a platform to move the car to another platform, and they need to push to get it rolling. Once they get to their destination, getting it off the platform takes ages.
When they open the door, they notice that the cabin, once nicely specced is also a mess. The leather peeled off the steering wheel, the paddle shifters seem completely destroyed (luckily, they only had some silly add-ons!), while the center console looks like someone poured acid on it.
The door panels are rattling, and strangely, the seats have a different shade of beige compared to the dashboard and doors.
The new owner takes a wild guess and thinks the dealership they brought it from must have swapped the original seats with some purchased on eBay or reupholstered them. But the new upholstery, if that is the case, now covers the buttons that adjust the seats.
They immediately start working on the car. They take the seats out and try to see what is wrong with the engine. It is a 3.6-liter V8, generating 395 horsepower (400 metric horsepower) in its good old days.
But now everything is covered in rust, so to get it spinning, they will have to put in a lot of work. But it doesn't look half as bad as they expected.
A preview for the next episode shows that the engine starts. But how they got there, we have yet to see.
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