Magazine Superauto illustrated 1987 - Ferrari 412

I was fearing already I would not get a response on this request:

https://erwin400.blogspot.com/2024/09/usa-magazine-superauto-illustrated.html

Meanwhile I receive quite a lot of  requests to get access to my archive with the manuals. About 2 years ago Google made a change to this specific link because of security reasons. Apparently many people had this link bookmarked in the past which since the change no longer worked. On average I get a request for access every 2 weeks over the past 2 years. Most of these people are not even bothered to say thank you once I provide them the renewed link. On the right sidebar of the blog there is the correct link to the download folder which contains freely available all content regarding the 400, including the magazine articles and manuals. Perhaps I should consider a small fee to gain access so I can cover at least some of the expenses. I noticed I'm also start to run out of storage space on the Google Drive (nearly 80% used up), meaning in the future I might need to pay for storage. In any case, for now all is free. But if you appreciate all the content then the right side bar of the blog does also have a button at the top to make a Paypal donation.

So yes, this article is now available in the download folder. Unfortunately it's not a great article, more a brief sum up of the new specs. The Lancia Thema 8.32 article in this magazine is however excellent! But that is outside of the scope of this blog ...

Ferrari 400i Automatic in Mexico

This car showed up for sale: 

https://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/details.html?id=392200659

And it did include the following letter:

So apparently it was newly ordered via Symbol cars in Houston / Ferrari of Houston. I suspect this must have been a grey import into the USA and then sold to a customer in Mexico. The VIN book by Raab mentions for this serial nr only the remark: "EU".  I suspect around 1981 there was no Ferrari dealer in Mexico, so potentially this was the best and most affordable route for someone in Mexico to obtain one? I'm only guessing here.

Furthermore, judging by the reflectors and positioning of the rear bumper, it must have been federalized for the US market at some stage, either when newly registered or later on. Again, I'm only guessing here as I'm not familiair with the process or what happened in the past. Adding this blog just for the records. 

Diecast Kyosho 1:64 - diorama

 via Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kanlizer/p/DAugLLoSJFX/?img_index=3

For sale - Ferrari 400i rear bumper

A friend of mine has this spare bumper for sale. It's original and in a decent condition (without the lights). It's located in France and offered for € 1.250,-

If you are interested then contact me and I will get you in touch with the seller.

Factory photo's

Some old factory photo's with 400s. I don't know from which years these are. 

One-off Ferrari 365 GT4 2+2 Shooting Brake bags Magneto’s Art of Bespoke Award

Somehow I missed out on this article but I had already posted quite a bit on this car. Just to be complete, here it is as well:

https://www.magnetomagazine.com/articles/one-off-ferrari-365-gt4-22-shooting-brake-bags-magentos-art-of-bespoke-award/

Autogespot.com updated - hurray!

My radar noticed very recently quite a few Ferrari 400/412 postings on autogespot.com. Previously these were always removed and somehow the 365GT4 2+2 was allowed. Occasionly in the past I have e posted a few of these spots on my blog. But mostly posted these in the Facebook group if I was capable to reveal the removed photo's from Google cache. 

Personally I always liked these spots in the wild when people are actually use and drive them. But now these 400/412 photo's are meeting their acceptance criteria. Cool!

So now you can look up them up yourself easily. The options are:

400 Automatic

400 Convertible

400i 

400i Automatic

412

Meaning the 400 manual is missing, perhaps they are not aware of this since the 400 is always associated being an automatic. Oh well. 

This example is posted today but is actually a photo from two years ago:

https://www.autogespot.nl/ferrari-400i-automatic/2024/09/26

As the spotter mentioned:

Well I just heard that the Ferrari 400i/412 is now "back on the menu" of cars that are acceptable to post on Autogespot. In celebration, here is a Ferrari 400i Automatic that I spotted while getting gas at Cumberland Farms along US-7 on 9/3/2022. The owner was really nice and was telling me everything about the car. Love the color too! To the mods on AG: I really hope you guys take other makes/models that are currently not allowed on AG and reconsider whether or not they should remain that way. As someone who has been on the website and consistently posting for the past 11 years, I would love to see more cars be added and for restrictions on what is and what isn't allowed to be loosened. These cars got banned 10+ years ago, the car scene is much different, more diverse and more welcoming than it was back in those days. I'm not saying allow Toyota Priuses or normal traffic but I mean special cars that have communities surrounding them, like older muscle cars, older M cars, older AMGs and 600 Mercedes, R32/R33 Skylines, the list goes on. I have a whole list of cars that I would love to see added as spotworthy to the site, some of which even I haven't spotted. Either way, I'm glad this car is allowed now and I hope to see more of this kind of thing happening with the website in the future.