Sunday 13 July 2014

Ferrari 400i Pavesi

I catched this Dutch Fabebook update. It was posted in https://www.facebook.com/groups/Oldtimerliefhebbers/?fref=nf.
Somehow I cant fetch the 'embedded html code' from this page, so I took it from the personal Facebook page of the person who posted it. As such it's now missing the brilliant comments. In any case, this FB post mentions there is an upcoming article in a future edition of the magazine "Het Automobiel" (https://www.facebook.com/HetAutomobiel / http://hetautomobiel.nl/)  So expect a scanned article upcoming. Furthermore I noticed on the license plate the name http://retrolegends.nl/  And on their website the car is offered on sale: http://retrolegends.nl/stock/2644/ It does mention only 12 Pavesi convertibles have been made. Still I don't fancy them.

Update: By surprise I just noticed the Pavesi website is alive again: http://www.pavesimilano.it/
(still some construction work going - no English yet). If you wonder how the old website looked like in Feb 2002:
https://web.archive.org/web/20020203190810/http://www.pavesimilano.it/
 
Update: Just was sniffing around a bit more. I noticed via web archive some more updates where done in 2013. It seems like that was a temporary website with a new (different) design layout. It did contain also a section with a few YouTube videos (currently not available on their new website). In any case this triggered me to lookup their YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCryWJQJUXHDUboOpkYQa11w On their channel you will see a nice video on the Testarossa convertible. At the start and the end you will see the entrance of the Pavesi premises. It seems to be located somewhere on a city street in Milan. Just checked this on Google maps. Isn't that a remarkable location:
 
 
Seems like the houses have been renovated, compared with the video snapshot. During my summer holiday leave I think I will make a city breakout trip to Milan and make a visit to this place.

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