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We all know how the restoration of an old Ferrari goes.
Owner buys car (sometimes unseen), deposits it at a specialist, then returns after 16 months to pick up the not insubstantial tab and their ‘brand new’ classic car – end of story, nothing more to see here, thank you.
In fact, Cheshire-based friends Richard Foulkes and Richard Brindley hadn’t even considered embarking on a rebuild project at all.
Their intention had been to buy a car together and have a little bit of fun with it. The best-laid schemes of mice and men…
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The Ferrari and its proud owners, Richards Foulkes and Brindley
“A specialist I’d dealt with gave us a heads-up on a Ferrari 328 – that he himself didn’t have the appetite for – down in Enfield,” says Foulkes.
“The owner was a Cypriot who’d bought the car in 1996 and built this little garage, almost like a bungalow, in his back garden for it. Since then, the 328 had covered just 1000 miles – bringing the total to 29,000 – and had been on SORN since 2005.
“He was a busy man and worked abroad, coming back each year to just push it out, take a look and then put it back away again.”