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Buy John Romero's Ferrari On EBay

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the california-is-the-one-true-ferrari dept.

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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  1. to slashdot advertising department by woolite · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I would be most grateful if someone could send me the advertising rates for these kind of adverts.

    TIA

  2. Heavily modified by slashdot.org · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    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) ;o)

  3. Re:Vale adding feature by dark_panda · · Score: 5, Insightful
    between him and john carmack there has been no one who has had as big an effect on the current game industry (with the except of warren spector and sid mierer)

    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