Check out this Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/ars_classic/
Website: https://ars-classic.fr/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/arsclassic.page
Some very nice footage on engine work carried out on the 400.
A very rare 400 manual carburetor in a stunning color. Wow!
And more work being done on a 365GT4 2+2
Via Facebook:
It‘s #ferrarifriday, so what could be a more adequate post than a photo of a Ferrari meeting?
I hit this Instagram post because of this 365GT4 2+2 (what else). I spotted it had the MC sticker and the associated "Monaco Motors - G. Cavallari" decal as well. So likely an original delivered car in Monaco albeit currently on French plates. For a moment I thought it was this one:
https://erwin400.blogspot.com/2022/07/autogespot-ferrari-365gt4-22-monaco.html
But it's not. Adding it here just for the records.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DWWIYB7DK8F/
The owner runs this car business:
https://www.gtc-collection-cars.com/
For a long time, I didn’t really like the 365 GT4 2+2, the 400i, and its successors. But I think I’ve finally changed my mind — better late than never, right?
I started one for the first time yesterday, and somehow we just clicked. Maybe it’s because this one is completely original, or maybe it’s the sound from its drilled exhaust (Definitely not the weak battery that left me stranded)
I guess some things are hard to explain — you just have to feel them.
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https://www.hagerty.co.uk/articles/valuation-verdict-ferrari-400/
People say that there’s no such thing as a cheap Ferrari, and it’s an expression rooted in truth and hard-won experience.
— Hagerty UK (@HagertyUK) March 26, 2026
That said, John Mayhead asks if now is a good time to buy a Ferrari 400? 🤔 https://t.co/4gWNfomOLu pic.twitter.com/mHCK2A0kZm
And Instagram:
Today my radar hit this Czech article, published today, but it was behind a paywall;
https://ieuro.cz/automobilovy-klenot-ferrari-400i/
But upon further checking I found another 400 article on their website;
https://ieuro.cz/estet-z-maranella/
Which appears to be the same article but with a different header and not behind a paywall.
English translation:
And upon checking my own blog I found this post with the same article again, back then it was blocked;
https://erwin400.blogspot.com/2024/09/czech-magazine-dolce-vita-photo-shoot.html
And hereby also the original Linkedin post with the reference;
Keith Richards with his Ferrari 400i, outside Pathé Marconi Studios, in Paris, France - 1985
Adding this one just for the records and for the original car telephone kit. And it had the original registration booklet. This car was ordered as a company car for the German company "bekleidungswerke Hucke" which is a fashion clothing brand:
Hucke (originally Hucke AG in Lübbecke, Germany) was a prominent German clothing manufacturer, founded in the late 1940s, known for women's ready-to-wear and European-style coats. Today, the brand is primarily found as "vintage" or second-hand clothing, such as wool blazers, trench coats, and coats from the 1980s.
https://www.classiccar-auctions.com/en/lot-details/33629/auctions/Classics/ferrari-400i-1981
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And another auction ending shortly. It's in the same specs as mine so am curious to see for how much it will go eventually. Enjoy the comments:
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1979-ferrari-400-5/
Via https://www.gullwingmotorcars.com/1981-ferrari-400i-c-5633.htm
VIN: 38913
Price: $24,500
It was shipped to the US from the UK in 2012. It has been off the road since 1993.
It is still in its original colours of Azzurro Metallizzato
with Tabacco VM 846 (dark beige) hide.
It has a sunroof which most probably would have been fitted
in the UK when new.
Via Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DVx-yovDMuD
Maranello Concessionaires… Unsure whether to title these photographs as The Montpelier Street Car Park or Maranello Concessionaires London SW7.
In a post yesterday I explained Mark Konig’s idea in 1980 that rather than trade every part exchange I should take some of them home and attempt to sell them privately.
Here are a selection of a few parked outside of my house … the Argento GTB 21785 (UYF 20S) was not a trade car but my own. Nevertheless my neighbours wouldn’t have differentiated and became increasingly annoyed they couldn’t park their own cars. My immediate neighbour was the producer of all the James Bond films and threatened to have said Mr Bond implode all my cars. I never knew if he was joking. However his wife was Italian and loved having lots of Ferrari parked in front of her house.
I know my ‘record’ was 7 all in a row but I can’t find a photograph and it’s possible I didn’t take one. My photography was sporadic and as can be seen usually when it was raining. As the photographs were never used in the adverts I’m unsure why I took them.
I only copied the "400s" from his post.
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A German owner has created a high quality reproduction of the heater control frames. It has been a very small batch of 5 sets only. So hurry if you need them or be on the safe side and have them as spare in your own stock.
See thread on FChat or on FB below
https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/threads/reproduction-heater-control-frames-any-interest.697490/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/8727831092/posts/10164665519481093/
I've finished the first set of heater control frames.
They're made in Germany of CNC machined aluminium, trowalized and anodized, with the "dots and arrows" recessed by 0,5mm and filled with enamel paint.
Adding this one just for the records and for its rarity.
I spotted this one on Instagram. It came with the information: Hockenheim 1988.
Typical to see a RHD car on Swiss license plates. But additional information was provided by someone else:
#34983, a manual 400i in the rare shade of Rosso Metallizzato. First owned by Shaun Bealey, the Deputy Chairman of Maranello Concessionaires.
Ferrari 400i Oktober 1988 at Hotel Intercontinental (today Hotel Le Merdian) in Stuttgart.
Yes, it's on New York plates - ORW 507. And judging on the reflector at the backside it might be a federalized US car.
Did the owner ship it to Germany to cruise around in Europe? Or touring around for business purpose?
Does anyone knows this car or the owner?
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1985: Ferrari 412 i beim Messestand des süddeutschen Ferrari-Importeur Autexpo' im Oktober 1985 bei der Automesse AMA in Stuttgart
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The Niki Lauda 365GT4 2+2 was sold on an auction and showed up in the Netherlands, as per blog:
https://erwin400.blogspot.com/2025/12/niki-lauda-ferrari-365gt4-22-on-dutch.html
And yesterday it was spotted in the wild in Laren. Although it has a Dutch License plate registration (as per previous blog) it was driving around on green dealer plates:
https://www.autogespot.com/ferrari-365-gt4-22/2026/03/01
Via Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/p/DVOxYtYDP2A/
Maranello Concessionaires … 1979 Ferrari 400i auto. 28073. Supplied new by Maranello Concessionaires in August 1979 painted in Bruno Aeajou with Tan VM3218 hides.
28073 was registered as SAY 400 and allocated as the concessionaires demonstrator.
At a cursory glance you could be forgiven for recognising the colour as Marrone Colorado. However Bruno Aeajou maybe the rarest shade on the Pininfarina paint palette. No other Ferrari was imported by MC in this colour and I’ve never seen another regardless of locality.
I have absolutely no memory of this 400 whatsoever even though as the demo car I presumably drove it many miles. I do recall it was lent to Motorsport magazine and in December 1979 it graced their front cover. Photo credit Neill Bruce. #ferrari #ferrari400i #maranelloconcessionaires #brunoaeajou #say400
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