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Buy John Romero's Ferrari On EBay
TheMightyZog writes: "John Romero is selling his Ferrari Testarossa: eBay and his own site. Is anyone else distrubed by the graphic on the top of his home page?" At last check, the reserve was not yet met.
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I would be most grateful if someone could send me the advertising rates for these kind of adverts.
TIA
Although this goes well beyond what should be discussed on /. and has practically no significance at all, I have to say that 'Heavily Modified' bothers me when it comes to cars like this.
;o)
I always find it a bit sad. Like the original creators didn't do a good job. If you spend that much money, why buy a car that you don't agree with?
And if you (apparently) plan to sell it, it's pretty silly. Almost no-one will agree your mods are so kewl. By now they are out-dated, start to fail (believe me, I had a 911 Turbo and the one mod caused me a major headache) and it's practically impossible to bring the car back to it's original condition.
When a car like this is modified it usually means that it was just a rich kids toy. Not someone that bought it because they loved the car. For the true lover, there's nothing but the original.
In any case, the $100K Buy It Now is horribly over-priced. You get an original Testarossa from the same year for a little more than half of that. And it will still be worth something 10 years from now. (for example, not that I anything about this car, so this is not a recommendation)
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Why do you all feel the need to insult John Romero?
Why do you think he's "full of himself", and "egotistical"? Just because of some overzealous marketing department? On what basis do you make this statement?
To you, he is only words on a screen. But he's a real person. When he reads all this, he will most likely feel insulted, hurt, or pissed off. Is there something wrong with treating your fellow man with respect?
Why is this marked as interesting? This seems like a miss-leading troll. That's one complaint out of 60. In most cases, the praise is very high. In that light, I think I would more than overlook that one complaint and just assume that something else happened for which I know not the facts, or that the complainer was a bad apple.
> Ask anyone who owns one (I'm not one,
> fortunately), but you always buy them in pairs > because one is always "in the shop."
*yawn* this is the standard myth perpitrated by people who've never owned a Ferrari but think they know all about it.
Actually my Ferrari 308 GTS is very reliable. I've owned it and driven it regularly for 5 years with no breakdowns whatsoever. I'd like to see any other 22 year old car do that.
Also, most other Ferrari owners I know have the same story.
Its hardly surprising that there are some Ferrari stories about unreliability given that fuckwits like this guy have heavily modified the car with unauthorised parts and had the work done by Jim-Bob autos, not a proper Ferrari garage. Ferrari engines aren't Fords and do require specialist knowledge.
BTW for anyone thinking about buying this car, dont touch it.. the mods done make it worth less, not more, not to mention the loss of Ferrari service history. With Ferrari's especially, the more authentic it is, the more its worth.
Niz.
And the possible exceptions of...
- Shigeru Miymoto (Mario, Zelda, all things Nintendo)
- Gumpei Yokoi (R.I.P. -- died in a car crash in '97; responsible for the GameBoy among other things)
- Will Wright (all things Sim)
- Hironobu Sakaguchi (all things Final Fantasy and Square).
- Peter Molyneux (Populous, B&W)
Carmack might be a 3-D engine/DeathMatch god, there's no question on that one, but all of the above guys have had major contributions to the entire concept of a video game. (There are many others, of course, these are but a few...)J