Ferrari 400

Monday, 6 July 2026

Book - The complete Ferrari by Godfrey Eaton

One of the readers was so kind to scan the pages of this book with content about the Ferrari 365/400/412 series. It's now available as PDF on my Google Drive in the book section

Sunday, 21 June 2026

Sammy Hagar - 1984 Ferrari 400i

Via X :

https://x.com/sammyhagar/status/2064073593743433884?s=20

One in the can sounded fucking great back at it today. Can't wait to get out there on the road. Maybe I'll drive my old 1984 400i on this tour #ferrari #5150 #michaelanthony @chickenfootjoe #kennyaronoff #spidercherry pic.twitter.com/3Cz56tK1Ve
— Sammy Hagar (@sammyhagar) June 8, 2026

Friday, 12 June 2026

una rarità incredibile: Ferrari 400i straman,quando non esiste un cabrio..bisogna costruirselo

Apparently it´s automatically dubbed in English via the URL. The embedded video you need to enable subtitling yourself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf9wZE7Za5M

Wednesday, 10 June 2026

School Gala 2026

A few weeks back I was approached by Arriën and asked if I was willing to drive his son to a school gala as he passed his exams. As they are true Ferrari enthusiasts I knew this would mean a lot to them, so it was a no-brainer for me. By surprise I received last week a Facebook reminder that I visited them with my 400 exactly 12 years ago.What a coincidence. See this blog:

https://erwin400.blogspot.com/2014/06/boys-driving-400.html

Yesterday was the big day so during lunch I picked up the 400 from the storage and parked it in the street. Not much later a few kids popped up on their bikes and noticed my car and I heard them
saying, what the fuck, that’s a Ferrari parked there. I could witness that from my top room where I was working with the window open. The car was very well inspected by the youngsters. One of them remarked very quickly it was an automatic. Just for the records I made this photo of the situation:

It’s not often I have the 400 parked at home in the street. I do recall this instance as well whereby some youngster spotted the car in the middle of the night, read this blog:

Ferrari 400: Saturday 19th October 2013 - Auto Moto Italia Rosmalen

In any case, when arriving later that afternoon at the graduate the first thing we did was making this retrospective comparison photo. Thought that was nice, they compiled this photo:

As a side note, I have done this school gala driving once before, see this blog:

https://erwin400.blogspot.com/2015/05/ferrari-400-school-gala-steenwijk.html

So I knew what to expect. Unfortunately this day things worked out differently. Initially a small tour through the city was planned by the school but due to bad weather forecast this was cancelled earlier in the afternoon. As a result everyone ended up at a large public parking place nearby school but since so many cars showed up at once the roads and crossings were jammed and it all became a bit chaotic. I was lucky to be early and managed to get on the parking place line up queue. Exactly when we left home it started raining with lightning and thunder. But it was not as bad as forecasted.I think our location was just on the outer parts of the stormy weather. At least no hail or very heavy rain.

It lasted only about 30 min or so. Still I ended up running idle for about 1 hour on the parking place before we ended up on the red carpet. But before that the car stalled and did not had much power anymore to start up. Initially I was thinking it could be some kind of vapor lock since I was not driving for at least 45 min or so. And I was lucky to bring my starter booster with me. Once hooked up the car slowly started up again. Phew! Afterwards I realized the battery had become weak as I was standing still so long on the parking place with the heater blowers on to demystify the windscreens. Whilst the engine was running, but not driving, the battery charging must have been minimal if at all. So I guess
it was drained up quite a bit. On my return home it was fully charged again when properly driven. I turned it off and on and it started up with a strong whizz, it ran instantly.

In any case both the graduate and their parents were very happy with the 400 showing up. So hereby another small photo compilation they made

And the gifts afterwards, a nice bottle of Italian Vino Bianco and a specific local sheep stone :-)

De-Veenendaalse-Kei-low.pdf

De Leersumse Kei » Stichting Pansophia

Wednesday, 3 June 2026

BAT : No Reserve 1984 Ferrari 400 GT i

Yes, yes, another great one on BAT :

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1984-ferrari-400-gti-2/

And on Facebook:

I owned 42185 for 5 years. Drove it over 25,000 miles. No valve adjustment! Biggest single expense was replacing the TRX tires. I absolutely loved it, and only sold it at 75 (my age, not the car's) because I thought I was getting too old. Boy, was I stupid. It was both very quick and very comfortable. At 84, I could still drive it today and enjoy it. If only I hadn't been stupid.

Tuesday, 2 June 2026

Ferrari 400 manual carburettor - poland - lowered suspension

Spotted this one on Tiktok. Just adding this one for the records as its a rare 400 manuel carburettor version. It does have 400i rims though. I think its located in Poland:

https://www.tiktok.com/@ex.dustin.1603/video/7644865305457691906