Buying your first Ferrari #263
The Intercooler
Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel discuss the romance of buying your first Ferrari. Which models at various budgets would give the first-time Ferrari buyer the best ownership experience? How can you be sure you're buying a good example and not one that's going to cost a fortune to maintain? Today V8 Ferraris can be bought for less than £40,000, with V12 models costing only a little more. Tempting, buy should you take the plunge?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Intercooler podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | Hi everybody, welcome back to the Intercooler podcast episode 263 with Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel. |
| 0:14.1 | Andrew, have you ever owned a Ferrari? |
| 0:15.9 | No, I've never owned a Ferrari. |
| 0:17.2 | Oh, I came very close once. |
| 0:19.0 | Okay, but even so, we are uniquely unqualified to talk about buying your first Ferrari. Yes. But that's what we're doing |
| 0:25.6 | this week. Okay, well, how did you come so close and why didn't you buy Ferrari? Um, it's a very |
| 0:31.1 | long time ago. Yeah. So a very long time ago, by which I mean in the late 1980s, I was, I think the phrase is something |
| 0:38.9 | in the city. I was a commodity broker and I was a bond dealer. It's such a long time ago. I can't |
| 0:44.6 | even quite remember which way around it came, but I got fired from both. But briefly, I had a bit of |
| 0:51.2 | money. I'd also managed to inherit a little bit from somewhere. |
| 0:57.8 | And I was obsessed, I guess because my father had had one, |
| 1:02.6 | and I've written about his love and my love for Ferrari Dinos |
| 1:06.0 | on the TI website and app. |
| 1:10.8 | And there was a bloke |
| 1:12.0 | Who had Adino |
| 1:13.7 | Fully restored |
| 1:15.0 | Registration number |
| 1:17.7 | FLY 246 |
| 1:19.7 | Fly 246 |
| 1:21.8 | And I went |
| 1:24.3 | I must have I can't believe I did this |
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