Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale Makes for Very Interesting Daily Driver
Matt Farah meets driver who runs high-mileage Ferrari as daily driver.
Car enthusiasm can cause people to make decisions a normal person would advise against. Ferrari enthusiasm can take those decisions to a whole new level.
This video from the Smoking Tire shows that sane decision making isn’t always the fun kind of decision making. It’s also a lesson in how much fun a supercar can be to own — if you can afford to not be precious about it.
Scott Chivers is the Brit that wanted a very specific 360 Challenge Stradale, but couldn’t find it in the exact spec he wanted. He wanted it to be black with yellow calipers and an Alcantara interior. And with a bit of British grit, he made it happen by ignoring the financial crisis of the time and buying a 360 Modena and giving it a full Challenge Stradale conversion. Chivers doesn’t tell us what he paid, but he’s worked out that to do it now would cost a whopping $170,000 on parts, and that’s on top of the car itself. He made sure his conversion was all genuine parts and nothing from the aftermarket. So, for all intents and purposes, it’s a 360 Challenge Stradale that could’ve come from a Ferrari dealer.
The thing we most appreciate here is the amount of love Chivers has for his car. He doesn’t just drive it on sunny and dry weekends. Instead, he has daily driven his Ferrari for eight years now and put over 70,000 miles on it. And when we see the inside and outside of the car, we can tell he doesn’t baby it. We can respect that, because Chivers is absolutely getting his money’s worth out of his Ferrari.
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