[ToyCollector]

Hal, I enjoy your points. I would love to have a GT3 now, I'd love to have a Ferrari now. It is a hopeless case for me if either of the new GT3s or Ferraris appreciate before my retirement in any significant fashion, or your son's midlife disposable income possibilities. By Ferrari, of the ones I like a 512BB is likely the cheapest to get me off the dime and the most established of the later era cars for a price plateau. I am also a likely candidate to take a flyer on a F355 Spyder. That said, neither are endearing to the home mechanic. The 512BB Ferrari may have some emotional raw in your face appeal (smell, sound, aesthetics, and performance is about marginal now), but I'd rather have a old outdated V-8 with a Holley 4 bbl to tune for all the same reasons you have described so eloquently here and on SCOF. I think your son could come to these very same conclusions for all the reasons you and I enjoy them 10-20 years down the road. I hope the HotRod culture never dies.