A temporary tag can be used by a dealer who is selling the car as well.

 

I have many other pics of this particular white Stradale, the Puerto Rico white Stradale, a no stripe white Stradale in Germany (currently for sale) and Pictures of 1 of the cars in Japan. During our search, we were informed of another white car that is in the US but I do not have an exact location.

 

I thought those always have a yellow border instead of red. Thanks for the explanation, I will read up on this.

 

Puerto Rico Stradale: (factory stripe, notice how it's different from the car posted above)
http://www.clasificadosonline.com/UD...Anuncio=347488

German Stradale:
http://www.autosalon-singen.de/verka...&marke=Ferrari

 

Why would you sell one CS to get another? Just to change the color?

 

Yes. To get 1 of the 1 or 2 white ones in US territory. The white car in Puerto Rico was not in the condition of Ricky's titanium car and it is not in the condition that he was promised it would be in. They would not re-negotiate the price after Ricky's Ferrari mechanic from Fl flew down there to PPI it and found that it would take a considerable amount of $ to get it to where his car is at now.

 

What was wrong with it? How bad could it be? It's only a couple years old... I can't imagine someone with a $200K abusing it.

 

It was not really abused but it was driven in Puerto Rico for 7000 miles( =20,000 US road miles). There were a few cosmetic things like several rock chips and some wear on the drivers suede seat. It needed new rubber mats.
The passenger side rear (small) window was cracked. (They had a new one there for replacement). The real kicker is that the car had about 60% clutch wear.(vs. the 3% clutch wear on Ricky's current car, new clutch= $7g's from Ferrari) The car needed about $20k worth of work (that was never originally disclosed) to make it right. At the end of the day, they agreed on a price and they (seller) was not willing to move from the price. He is already taking a bath on this car considering he paid over $300k for it to get it into the island.

 

If it's just a color change he wants, why not get it painted? Not a Maaco job, but a real factory quality paint job and stripe from a reputable shop?

Wouldn't that be much cheaper than selling it and buying something else? Since it won't be a trade in, the sales tax alone on a transaction like that would be around $14,000. $14K would get you a seriously nice paint job. I'm sure the eventual resale value wouldn't be great, but when you got Ricky money, who cares? Although on the other hand, being white and rare may attract some people and counter the aftermarket paint work devalue. Ehhh, I don't know what I'm talking about. Just a suggestion. That's what I would do anyway. Good paint work that wasn't accident related doesn't scare me at all. I guess it also depends on what color the interior is, but then again white goes with everything.

Nomex suit all zipped up. I'm ready for the flaming

 

I see 5 white stradales in Japan for sale ... around 23M yen so roughly 190K USD. May be importing is an option?

http://autos.yahoo.co.jp/ucar/search...lor=01&opt11=-

 

Painting a car like that is not an option. His car is perfect. If it was a high mileage one (20k) with nough paint, it would be a different story. The deal did not work out and he is happy keeping the titanium car.

 

There are even more over there than I thought.

 

Japan is crazy, loads of good cars. Very well kept too.

 

How much do you thing it's cost to import a car from Tokyo?
Do we have to change something on the car for the US spec?

 

I am sure it would be a pretty penny, and once you get it over here and federalized it will still be an ROW car which will hurt it's resale here in the states.