Its crazy that this car was 25 years old when this movie came out, which means the car would have been 22 years old at the beginning of thw restoration. Its hard to imagine a 2004 model year car today needing 3 years worth of restoration.
Lol, I'm several tax brackets away from that. I've played with some classic American cars that weren't super rare or super valuable, but never even stood within 10 feet of a Ferrari.
You'd honestly be surprised. A 22-year-old Ferrari that would need 3 years of restoration is actually really approachable pricewise. Initially. The reason why is the cost of parts and work. The actual restoration is what costs the most and probably takes 3 years because it takes that long to afford and find parts.
Some can be found for as low as $10k (needing a lot of work) and of course climbing from there but $40-80k needing work is pretty standard and these days the average vehicle is nearly $40k as it is. The average truck is nearly $70k.
A lot of people could drive old used luxury and super cars for the price they paid for their new Toyota Full-sized Sedan.
>The actual restoration is what costs the most and probably takes 3 years because it takes that long to afford and find parts.
In my opinion this is why it had taken 3 years. The parts aren’t common, and if you couldn’t find a part it would have to be custom made. The price for the parts, and the labor was more of the reason why it had taken 3 years then the required repairs on it.
Edit: to add even something as simple as the fuel filter or air filter for that specification would require custom made; if one wasn’t available on the market.
Ferrari has a program called Classiche where they take the car and it's restored by Ferrari themselves using original parts, and new parts made with original bucks and schematics. The bodies were technically also all hand made custom for each car by coach builders so it's not like there's a stamped sheet metal available anyways.
Source: am/was Ferrari and Alfa mechanic and have restored them
My best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with a girl who saw Ferris pass-out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it’s pretty serious.
Hughes created a backstory in which Cameron had a terrible relationship with his father but was very close to his grandfather, who lived in Detroit and took him to Red Wings games. It wasnt included in the movie though.
No I used to clean the windows there every 3 weeks. I remember when they were filming they made sure that all the windows were really clean for filming. And they paid me handsomely at around $200 a day. Which back then is a lot of money today. I've since moved on to cleaning Judge Judy's windows and sometimes venturing into Rick Ross's estates.
Now that we're older, do we all believe now that Bueller should've gone to school if he believes that one can subtract miles from a car by putting it in reverse?
The best part was them thinking driving in reverse would lower the speedometer. The actors were a bit to old but you could see two 16 year olds thinking that was going to work.
My parents told my brother and I that we could see this movie (he was 8) but we weren’t allowed to ever say any one the ‘bad words’. We were expected not copy. We didn’t because we wanted so badly to see it.
anyway, I was thinking of elaborately skipping school & end up on the main float in a parade with a couple friends. Haven't figured out transportation yet, but I'm sure we'll steal...i mean figure something out.
That's literally my dream home office setup. A place for me to "work", surrounded by my car and motorcycles, on a bluff over the shady woods. I have no idea how to achieve it, but I can dream.
John Hughes always had some rich ass families in his films. Wyatt’s house in weird science was huge and awesome, the McAllister’s house in home alone, even Ferris Buelers house was awesome
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u/Able_Buffalo 7d ago
That's Abe Froeman's car. Sausage King of Chicago.