What Do You Do With A Cheap Ferrari V12?

"DailyTurismo" (thedailyturismo) 03/14/2014 at 17:00 • Filed to: Daily Turismo

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While browsing through the onslaught of crap that is also known as "ebay auctions," I stumbled across an almost new !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! engine offered for a starting bid of $25,000 with 4 days to go. The question isn't "should I buy this engine" but " what should I put it into? "

Conversations in the "Daily Turismo office" spiraled quickly out of control and into petty name calling and tomfoolery...but the conclusion was clear. Wherever this engine lands, it needs to be into something irreverent , awesome and totally worthless as an end product.

I was of the opinion that this needed to go into a derelict Fiat 124, but Hunsbloger cut a sharp apex to awesome when he wrote:

Only two possible choices.... Fiero.... Fierrari; Corvair... Corverrari

Good choices. Kaibeezy took it one step further...

Hunsbloger is on the right track - reverse of a Pantera - American car, flashy but underpowered, what springs to mind? C3 Corvette? hm, post-78 fastback glass, smoggery hobbled - imagine seeing this warp core under the long glass! wonder if I could photoshop that?

And the above photoshop was born. Mixing the best $5k twizzler chassis'd C3 and an awesome $25k Ferrari engine would result in an end product worth about $10k. Bingo.

No one is going to argue that the 6.0 liter V12 from a Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano isn't totally awesome - who wouldn't want 611 horsepower of prancing pony power backfiring from his exhaust pipe with every upshift of the F1 style sequential transmission? The only problem is that if you put this into a "cool" car you sort of become a douchebag. It would be great in a 1965 Mustang Fastback or an E3 Bavaria..but you'd need to start wearing pointy toe shoes, expensive shades and Ferrari officially licensed hats/jackets. Put it into a total pile of crap like a Volvo wagon, or Rolls Royce Silver Cloud, and suddenly you are a thrift store tweed jacket wearing trend setter and Oakley pays you to wear their shades.

Alternatively, you could stuff it into this !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! offered for $20k buy-it-now on ebay as recommended by Bill H. $45k + assembly + paint + labor ain't bad for a 599 V12 powered 330GT...but...what is the fun in that?

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Image credits; Kaibeezy@DT, ebay.

Racescort666 > DailyTurismo 03/14/2014 at 17:12

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I like the C3 Corvette idea. Alternatively, some sort of sacrilegious rat rod would be great.

DuckDraper > DailyTurismo 03/14/2014 at 18:40

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I'd put it in this and troll everyone.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > DailyTurismo 03/14/2014 at 19:07

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Mid-engine pickup truck race car. Make a custom Aluminum frame, carbon fiber body, lower it so it just looks stanced.

66671 - 200 [METRIC] my dash > DuckDraper 03/14/2014 at 20:33

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Then stick it in the rear and put like a billion turbos.

Axial > DailyTurismo 03/14/2014 at 21:18

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You put it in the front of a C3 Corvette and instead make a tasteful hatch mod to the rear glass a la the 1982 Collector Edition.

DuckDraper > 66671 - 200 [METRIC] my dash 03/14/2014 at 22:07

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My face when accelerating

66671 - 200 [METRIC] my dash > DuckDraper 03/14/2014 at 23:05

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Make sure the turbo lag is like an off/on switch too!

DuckDraper > 66671 - 200 [METRIC] my dash 03/15/2014 at 00:11

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For maximum drag race trolling.

JR1 > DailyTurismo 03/18/2014 at 16:27

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Ferrari hot rod?

Vandelay Industries > DailyTurismo 03/19/2014 at 13:41

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Dudes...

2 choices...

A tesla or fisker karma

Teslarrari or fisker karmarrari

littlegriggzy > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 03/19/2014 at 14:30

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*Edited because I didn't mean to reply to you gmporschenut, I clicked the wrong button.

littlegriggzy > DailyTurismo 03/19/2014 at 14:34

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I think it needs to go in a Volvo 240 like this one. Leave it looking completley standard on the outside and try and keep as much of the standard interior as possible. Or just put it in a Miata.

crowmolly > DailyTurismo 03/19/2014 at 14:43

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'80s Olds Cutlass Ciera.

multiple wheels for each day of the week > DailyTurismo 03/19/2014 at 15:41

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Obvious choice is . Fiat 500 abarth ...

LongbowMkII > DailyTurismo 03/19/2014 at 16:05

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More than you can afford pal.

DailyTurismo > LongbowMkII 03/19/2014 at 16:12

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You know what is ironic? Mk IV Supra TT 6-spd is worth more than a Ferrari 348. (or was it a 355 in FF?). Anyway, regardless of value a modified Supra will whoop up on stock 348/355 all day long in a drag race, even with a 275lb Vin Diesel slowing you down.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > littlegriggzy 03/19/2014 at 22:34

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I'm shocked and outraged!! NP. no harm no foul.

Dr-Tran > DailyTurismo 03/20/2014 at 01:18

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Where the rear seats and cargo area are in a prius

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > DailyTurismo 05/29/2014 at 13:02

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We are trying to be ridiculous right? And this is Murica right?

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Vandelay Industries 05/29/2014 at 13:03

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That Fisker is such a stupid looking car. Like some kind of lizard sticking its tongue out at you. Like Randall from Monsters Inc.

Roadster Man > crowmolly 05/29/2014 at 17:53

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Yes. Transversely mounted with FWD.