JACK´S INSANITY.

Good morning, my name is Yago C. I'm 33 years old, I'm single and I am very fond of cars. I've decided to start this blog to show that dreams can come true. A friend of mine wanted to own a Ferrari and with hard work and patience he's got it. This blog will be updated weekly to show you how he has managed and I will even try to transmite his feelings. Car lovers will see that even if they have a limited budget it can be achieved, we ¡ust need the will and clear objectives.

It's true that the car has lost the Ferrari pedigree but it has gained SOUL in return, because his restorer has given part of his life in its resuscitation. My friend likes to be called Jack, he always liked the Ferrari F355, despite the new models which came out, 360 Modena, F430, the retractable headlights aesthetic and rear uprights with horizontal engine hood design seem to him genuinely Pininfarina for Ferrari.

Jack finished Mechanical Engineering studies in 1996 and once he got a job with a certain stability, he seriously proposed to himself to make his dream come true. Many of us told Jack that his craziness would pass away. I, myself, even told him that for his purpose a much wealthy situation was needed and a person with his responsibilities, a family depending on ¡ust his wage, could not achieve such dreams. He got so angry that he didn't talk to me till he was about to take the first real step to own his F355.

Jack always searched on Internet sites for price of second hand F355, but they really could not be reached, then he re-drawed his dream and decided to look for a damaged one and restore it himself. His intention was to buy a car beaten but with the gearbox and engine in perfect condition to repair only the aesthetics. He always liked to fix everything that came into his hands, he is a real handyman.

Internet was the place where Jack had been looking for 2 years a damaged F355 and was in September 2007 when he saw one in www.mobile.de that got all the requirements, Ferrari F355, Berlinetta, red, with few! Km with a blow that could be restored, engine ok, ok gearbox, his dream was to a single click on the computer.

His mind and his heart came into conflict and then he called me to ask for advice, I freaked, I thought it was a joke, he showed me the advertisement on Internet, I am still amazed by the courage he had.

Hereunder I show some photos of how the car was advertised on the Internet. Jack said that the car may have had an accident on a country road, with several drifts and repetitive blows to the four corners of the car, so, though ¡ust the right door was ok, all the other hits were not very important, they could be repaired by a good panel beater, he said that obviously on Internet you can always have surprises you can not see, so it is necessary to assume a repair budget 15% higher for any contingency, however the car did not seem to have a strong impact, he was highly convinced the chassis was intact.