On Ferrari Friday’s, William Ross from the Exotic Car Marketplace will be discussing all things Ferrari and interviewing people that live and breath the Ferrari brand.

William takes us on a tour of The Ferrari Car Show – Cavallino 2024!

In this episode William discusses his annual trip to Palm Beach, Florida. Celebrating the excellence of Ferrari for 33 years. It’s a collection of the greatest of automobiles, the finest of people, the most beautiful of settings, at the best time of year. It’s The Palm Beach Cavallino Classic

Video Transcript

Tour of Cavallino 2024 – The Ferrari Car Show!

[00:00:00] Hello everyone, welcome back to the channel. We are off to Cavalino. So, it’s, sun’s out, it’s about 82 degrees it says. So, uh, the rain held off, which is great. I mean it rained a little bit, if you saw the earlier stuff I did the unloading. So, but, got my gear on for, you know, trying to look all nice. Got nice red pants, you know, trying to look all hoity toity.

Uh, blend in, you know. But, anyways, so we’re gonna have some cool stuff coming up here. I think the, if my memory serves me correct, the 288 GT. Special vehicle for this year’s event, so it’s gonna be showcased. So that should be cool I’ve seen a bunch of those lying around. I know we’re gonna have a bunch of n50 enzo’s to seven There’s gonna be some really cool stuff So definitely watch this entire video because it’s gonna be some awesome awesome stuff on Ferrari So see if we can get some cool stuff talk some owners maybe see we can figure out You know play by ear see what happens So but remember guys remember hit that like and subscribe button really appreciate it more contents coming You know [00:01:00] got a lot of stuff planned for this year Uh, big things happening in regards to the podcast, everything like that.

If you haven’t checked it out, you know, go to the Ferrari marketplace. com. Check out the podcast we got going on. Uh, we just dropped a few, uh, going over to Mille Miglia. I got one coming up next Friday for Ferrari Fridays. That’s going to be about the Ferrari movie. It’s been out for a little over a month now.

So I figured I’d do it. I’ve watched it twice. I watched it on the plane flying down here and I watched it on the first day. It came out back up there in Ohio. So on Christmas Eve. So anyways, back to you shortly off to Caballino. So we haven’t gotten into it had to go through security just be sure you know I keep out the riffraff Had to show my ticket even before I even got to the gate where I gotta go pick up my thing to get in But what I wanted to show you this is just cars coming in just to park for the event You should see you got an f40 coming there.

Look at that beauty[00:02:00]

There’s montana tags on there, but we got a lineup of some beautiful stuff right here

coming through this Expanded

Medium look, that thing is medium look. Very nice. I tell you what, you gotta love the color. I’d say

it’s orange. So then we got a couple, uh, I’d say 90’s, one’s a, pick off package on it. 12, it’s this matte, like red color.

And you know what, in my respect, cause it’s a woman driving it, she’s got a kid with her, but that’s awesome to see. Gotta [00:03:00] get more women involved. Passion of Ferrari, or just cars in general. Is what we need to have. So as soon as this lady gets through they let her through. I don’t know if you got something to do.

There’s not enough parking maybe or something going on.

You kind of uh, I’m sure they’re running out of space. I probably walked, I don’t know, a half mile before I parked. I found a free spot because let me tell you, it’s 40 for the cheap parking, 50 for the more expensive parking. Um, so they’re, okay, they’re turning some cars away. So let’s not meet either to run out of room or something.

So, um, so let’s walk up, but say hi to the state trooper. Hey. But let’s see what we’ve got going on here even before we walk inside. So we’ll get some of these up to the side. Maybe we’ll catch some of these cars scooting down here. But look at this, we got a 512M sitting right there. Look at this stuff.

We’ll get a better shot of this on the other side of [00:04:00] the fence when we get in there. Oh, I love that 512M.

Got two of them. Oh, we got four of them. Look at this. Look at that. Just from the backside, but we’ll get in the front side of these here in a minute. These are just all 512M’s. Wow. Look at that. Yeah. Beautiful. Look at what we got. Just a plethora of 512Ms. What is that? I like the white. Going by. Got to do some video.

Guy in the vet got through. This is crazy. There’s a TR. Snuck in there with the 512. There’s another TR. Going down here by a year maybe? Now we’re getting into the TR. So those are gorgeous. So go check out the booth as well. We get a free Caino magazine, [00:05:00] so, alright, we’re gonna go check in and we’ll be back shortly.

Okay, we’re in Simple enough, just so you know. $480 for a ticket for just Saturday. $608 just for Sunday, which sold out. You can guess what the package is. And VIP just says goes up from there. That’s still a lot better than Moto Miami. That’s gonna be almost. 1, 500 a ticket, but let’s go down. We got a 85 Testerosa Montepisto.

Look at that. And then we go down, we got ourselves an 86 Testa, another Montepisto, red with black interior. Very nice. I love that black interior. Honey, just keys are in it and go for a ride. So then we got a newer, got a 1990 Testerosa, red, black, very nice. Now we’re getting into the TRs. Okay. I think you can tell by the front end, you know, the thing kind of got a little more beefy, a little more, kind of muscular looking.

[00:06:00] So, tan interior. I have to go get my free goodie bag. Coming down, we got ourselves a 92 TR. Red tan. Oh, look at this blue. That a stunning blue. It’s red.

Look at that. So give us a couple minutes, we’ll get ready. That unbelievable. We’ll have blue shirt tower, I think it’s called. Yeah, look at that. That is just stunning. Okay. If I walk in front of the stage, they’re doing some, dang, we got another TR over here. Black with gray. Going through. Oh, white. It’s got black interior on this 512M.

Look at that. Oh my. I’m a big fan of white. That is just stunning. [00:07:00] Don’t see that much white. Another red tan. And we got a more unique color here. This, what would you call that? Blue silver? I’m sure I, I, I’m terrible at knowing what the names are. Color wise Tim aka Shmee would know that’s probably on top of his head 96 look at that That’s just Damn sexy This guy’s got though check out the seats he’s got in this one.

It’s 96 look at the seats that are in that Those are something you could order Put us an aftermarket season, but it looks great It’s got yellow and black.

Black and tan and red one. Check out the revival. [00:08:00] Look at the boat. These are, they’re getting judged. Check it out. Look at everything. You got all the tool kit out. Look at that. There’s your tool kit. All the books. Guy’s got everything. Look at that. Got all the bulbs. Look at that. And there’s a boat.

You can go around the backside. Let me get my free goodie bag and see it. But there you go. Back in a second. All right, we started out with the 512s and the Tessaroses, but we’re going to get into some of the high dollar stuff here. Uh, and some of the rare, some of the rare stuff. Um, this is up on the higher level of the lawn.

As you can see, we got all that down there, but let’s start out here. He’s got, God, he’s got [00:09:00] the. Engelbert tires on there. Look at that coming by. 250 GT Europa. Look at this color combo. Stunning. Absolutely beautiful.

And they come round. Got two 50 pf

59.

I think these are a bit underrated in the market. I think these are very, very sexy cars. Very sexy cars. Alright, let’s jump over here. I don’t think we all know what this is. Look at that black on black.[00:10:00]

Long wheelbase. Look at that. Here’s a short wheelbase. I don’t know how well you can hear me, I’m trying to talk to this. I should have put a microphone on myself, but I did not. So let’s give you a contrast here. Between the two. Short wheelbase. Long wheelbase. So you can see the difference there. It’s not too big, but significant enough.

You can see it more in the front end and your side. Here. Look at that on that one. You can see the difference between the that and to the door. That to the door. This we get ourselves another two 50.

Come by. Oh, I’ll leave this getting judged. Two 12 expert. [00:11:00] Right hand drive. I think this guy is from, he must be from Ohio because he’s got the Ohio tag. Look at this guy’s face. I started in this row. We’re at

12. I think it’s gotta be loud. I think it’s gotta be sss s Slow. Look me. Unbelievable. Look at this.

Come around, look at that.

Well, you can see on the inside there, but look, get at you to right there. 67, 4 12. [00:12:00] Look at that.

I’m going to keep saying that, look at this, because everything, every car you look at, there’s another 212, but I mean just, this is a big nolly, look at the fins on the back, kind of keep up with the Americans when the fins were kind of a big thing. They didn’t last long.

Look at that. Look at that, look at that, absolutely stunning. Then we got the one next to it we saw getting off the truck this morning. Jump ahead of this guy. These people around two 12

here, you can scan the QR code.[00:13:00]

Look at the gear that’s selected, look at that.

Ah.

As everyone knows, your thing is to put your fire extinguisher behind your rear tire at car shows to keep it from rolling. So when you have a 1. 6 mm, uh, what you do is you build yourself a special case for your fire extinguisher to put behind your wheel. Yeah. I’m sorry, this is a 212. Look at that. Check out the gear selector.

Look at that. Check that out. Very bare minimum in the dash. Okay, RPM gauge. [00:14:00] 51. All right, go around. Okay, then now we have our obligatory 250 GT. GTO. Look at that. Right hand drive GTO. I want to say this is the one, uh, Graham Hildreth and Moss. Look at that. Come around. Look at the pipes on that. But, you know what?

I missed. Come back here. It’s 250 TDF. A little bit of room, huh? Look at this. There’s that, look at this again. This is stunning. Look at this. I know I’m

not doing too much commentary because it’s just saying look at all these. These things are just stunning. Just stunning. [00:15:00] Look at the size of the fencing shield. Look at that. That thing’s big.

Fifty eight. Two fifty. Berlinetta. Oh, we got an SQ 100. Let’s get around these people. It’s a bit crowded up here. It’s a bit hot, maybe I should have wore shorts. Look at this beautiful SP3.

Very nice, if we get around here. There’s some behind me shooting as well. Look at that. Look at that.

Just,

unbelievable. Oh, look at what we got here. Call ourselves an [00:16:00] F1 shot

68 3 12. Do the pipe work on this? I mean, just look at that.

Look how tight that is. I ain’t fitting in there right now.

Got 2 75, sorry, three 30. Look at that color. Check out the interior on this. Interior.

Those green inserts. I don’t know how well you can see that. Alright, let’s go up here. Look at that.

Yeah, they’re doing the judging. I thought that was tomorrow, [00:17:00] but I guess they’re doing it today. Maybe they’re going to announce that tomorrow. I don’t want to get in these guys way of doing the judging. Some more guys wearing their straw hats.

Sounds beautiful.

Alright, now we’re going down to the lower level. Now there’s nothing too shabby. It’s not down here either. So we got some new stuff sitting down up up front here the SF90 Stradale’s, the Roma 296 and the Pura Sangue The Pura Sangue is gorgeous. I mean, I’d love to have one of those. That thing is just stunning.

So onward I’m not sure how long I’ll be able to shoot with the GoPro it’s about ready to overheat I know it’s getting warm and it’s hot down here. I wore pants Probably should’ve [00:18:00] brought some shorts to change into. Check out my new shoes I bought because Other products Were looking like shit. So nice s of 90, the purest saying way

cars

gray man. That didn’t work with, with the past 20 years. What a, what a man. I mean, I think that hopefully gives us a, a little bit of a, an idea of what an important man he was in the Ferrari history. Roma Formula one, Roma convertible. Look at that. I mean, I feel like those are. Wow, that was good. Drop top. Oh, look at this.

SF 90 xx Shmi jealous. Man, that thing is gonna be so much fun. Look at that. That thing is unbelievable.

Alright, [00:19:00] onward. You can see if we got anything laid out down here. You see there’s not like there’s, you know. Hundreds and hundreds of cars, but the cars they have here are very, very special and just very, very rare and very, very high dollar. So we’re going to try and see what we can get before this camera gets too hot.

I have to switch to my phone. So look at that. We have 40 where production and then they stopped the production. I’ll scan the QR. Code. I’ll pause on there, scan the QR code and get the details on it. Look at that. Sorry. . It takes your breath away, doesn’t it? Yeah,

I’m sorry. You’re okay. And the two 5G TBLM.[00:20:00]

Let’s get on the QR code. You guys can scan that and get the details. Let’s kind of jump around over here because we’ve got another 275 GTB comp. Wow, two comps. Look at that.

Look at that. Get into this one as well.

Bunch of old white guys with lots of money that don’t know what to do with it are walking around here. That just don’t give a you know what. They just get right in your way. They don’t care. Look at that. Okay, we’re gonna go up and check out this other NART. Look at [00:21:00] this one. Two NART spiders here.

Unbelievable.

Look at that. Oh, that blood read and tears. It’s freaking gorgeous.

You can see that. Absolutely. Yeah.

So that’s a four camp. So I don’t think that’s a legit art. I think that was a, uh, it would send n on there, so I dunno if that’s a real one. There’s not, but you scan that code on there, then we have ourselves a two 70 5G three s. Another 2 75 GTSI believe, or was at a 3 30, 2 75. Cute and very nice mc green.

And then we got some look of these 2 75.[00:22:00]

This is, this is the

black I’m black position. You go on.

It’s getting the shade of it.

714.[00:23:00]

I like the steelies on this. I think something that I just, I don’t know. I don’t like the wired. I like these steelies on there. A little more subdued, as I guess you could say. I mean, where else are you going to find this collection? The 275s all together. Pebble? Yeah. So going around, we’ve got the 288s, a couple of 288s.

Put that they got all the stuff out. I’m doing two.

All the documents, tool, everything. Look at that. This, that. Look at the tools. We even got the hammer, the Jack Red Book. Red Book. [00:24:00] Get in judged. Didn’t

judge,

that’s an Italian car. Right? Okay.

Let’s go down. Some more.

Let’s see what we got floating over here.

330, 330, PTS, 330 Coupes. These are growing on me. I wasn’t a big fan originally, but I don’t know, something about them is just growing on me. Look at this 250. More than that, a loose soul. Another loose soul. Coming around. Look at [00:25:00] that. I need to

stop.

There. Again, there’s a QR code. If you want to scan that and get more details. Alright, let’s go down the road to 330.

2 plus 2. Look at that. Dual headlights. That wouldn’t turn us away.

330 GTC. Wouldn’t go out of there. These guys are scrambling here before they come and get judged. Well, no answer. Sure. Um. Yeah, if that makes sense.

[00:26:00] Oh, nice.

I keep cringing. I have it in the back of my mind, I’m going to be dropping this camera on one of these cars. I have a very tight grip on this thing. Yeah, sure. So, the food at Pasta Fresenio is made here. Oh. Look at that. See, understand. I like the steelies. I love the steelies on there. That’s just, to me, just nice.

Hey, understated, you know, all right. So we switched batteries cause it got too hot. So let’s see how long this lasts. We zip everything up here. I might go carry all bag and go down. We did the F forties.

Let’s get this on. Sorry about getting the close up to my fat face. So we got two 28th, real eights in that row,

growing up top. [00:27:00] Now gentlemen, guy, that Skyler who I was talking with earlier today, uh, he was out, you know, unloading the cars. He told me that he wanted to fly in his drone. They said, nope, they would take that thing down with an EMP if you were trying to fly an illegal drone over the show. So, anywho, got 599s, 575s.

Let’s see if we got any manual ones. Oh, look at that manual. There we go.

Manual 550. Very nice. We got a manual.

Yeah, I had a five 50 and then I, I bought it.

Paint

99 gtb. I saw this one getting [00:28:00] unloaded this morning. That’s a 1 5 50. Let’s see here. Manual. Good man.

It’s yellow, tan. Five 50 coming down.

Alright, now we’re gonna go into the enzos. Let’s see if this is a, uh, manual. 5, 7, 5. Oh, it is. Look at that. The annual 575. That’s a rare bird. So, all right. Now we’re going down some Enzos and F50s. A little bit newer. Let’s go around these people.

It

almost looks like it’s a, uh, repaint.[00:29:00]

I don’t know.

Everyone’s down around here. F50. What’s going on? What’s going on with that? Look at that. Look at that. Turn around.

They’re good. I think that’s a good one. Not for us. But the interesting thing is, I was asking Mike what we had in mind. I was getting told he was gonna go around here. He really ran it. He just wanted the duration aspect. Those things are starting to start to stick. Look at this. X, X. X, X.[00:30:00]

Oh, sorry man. Getting people’s ways that the laugh Co F 50. Yeah. Uh,

is this, uh, I played on, I dunno if this was Jrs Jrs down there.

We got the Enzos. I know this is a wine. That they brought in customer car, black on black, Enzo,

very nice and silver on black for Enzo. Very pretty. And we got another l, Larock la ferry.[00:31:00]

We got some five twelves. Check. Got the orange on this, or I’m sorry, the color orange. I know it’s not orange, but it is.

That’d be fun just to cruise. Got a nice long drive. 3.

48 12. 00 We got 3. 55 over here.

Manual. Look at this. It’s a

manual thing.

He’s got everything. He’s got the spare out. There you go. Getting judged. [00:32:00] Take

it easy. Alright, spider. L5 12. Ooh, this. Here we go. Yeah, it’s

black on black. That is just impossible. Alright, last row.

Coming around. I’ve been training. On the 599. I don’t know if you can see it, but it’s super, super high end. It’s at 12TBF. 612. Let’s see [00:33:00] if this is a manual. Nope. F1 Channing. Super America. Sorry about that little camera slip.

Now we got ourselves a 458. That’s what you have. Big dollars now. Big dollars.

Look at this, stunning, I love this, TDF, look at that TDF,

beautiful, very nice, 430, 430. Alright, so now we’re gonna go get just, I’m gonna take some pictures now, so, I hope you [00:34:00] liked the little tour walking around, hope I got, saw what you wanted to see. So like I said, you know, there’s not the hugest of shows so but they got some very very special stuff here So again hit that like and subscribe button here guys when you get done.

I really appreciate it Gotta grow this channel some more. Thanks guys next time This is the

car we saw get off the 250 lm. I’ll [00:35:00] drink for that guy. Sorry. So we saw getting off the truck this morning Yeah I’m not going to touch it Look at this. This is the attached bodywork. Come around.

Look at that. Imagine driving this thing. That thing would just be phenomenal. Just driving that thing at speed. It’s nuts.

Let’s go

check out this 812 comp.

This is the one that’s got that, uh, whatchamacallit, paint job on it. Look at that.

Wasn’t sure about that when we saw it in pictures, but hey, that looks pretty cool. Alright, back to you [00:36:00] shortly. We’ll go down to that lower level. Because all our high, high dollar stuff was up here. So, back to you shortly. Camera’s getting hot. Compared to the wires, I don’t know man. I think the steel is a ton better.

What do you guys think? Comment down below. Let me know what you think. Alright, we got our Dino’s. Again,

remember I was talking about these this morning. I was talking about them before and how 15, 20 years ago these things weren’t worth anything. 30, 40 grand you can pick these things up, a dime a dozen.

Now they’re, 500, 000 and, I

don’t want to make this video too long for everybody. I just got some nice patina [00:37:00] to it. And, next to that, um,

Four plus two. Be nice. They had like a preservation class.

Oh, here’s a white one. We saw coming off.

The rear brake light still stand. I didn’t jinx it this morning. [00:38:00] It’s

a legit Daytona Spider. Another one we saw coming off the truck. We

have another.

Another legit spider.

Look at that. Get that, scan that QR code. See if you can get what you can out of it. Look at that. It’s real. Just some jewelry. A, I think they look super cool. Yeah, this might be it. Yeah, I think they’re super cool. Let’s go down and next we got the F40s. [00:39:00] Now here’s the thing about all these F40s. I don’t know how many are privately owned or how many actually might be owned by dealers.

So that’s kind of a curious question here. So, but we got five F40s in a row coming down. So I don’t know if this is going up to get newer and newer. It is known as, not that this is like a car you can drive like this, but it’s an F40. It’s known as like, basically, like the most overpowered, lightest, like, dangerous boat.

It’s like, it’s a race, it’s a race boat.

First must be short. Very long. Look at that dude, a flexing wheel.

These are all U. S. cars by the bumpers. Euro, Euro car. [00:40:00] That’s an American U. S. car. European. Look at the difference between the two. U. S. has got the bumper on their side markers, no bumper U. S. car, European car, European car. So 212 U. S. cars ever built. So rare bird. This is. You know, what’s your opinion? The big difference is the tanks, gas tanks, US cars, aluminum tanks, European cars, bags.

You have to get placed every five years.[00:41:00]

This thing is mean and looking in person. Yep.

No one’s kind of around this. I’m going to get video of this. Let’s kind of jump out a little bit. It’s 212. Look at that. That is awesome. Epsite. Oh man. [00:42:00] Can’t imagine Blake to drive this thing. Look at that. Absolutely beautiful.

Okay. Look at that. That’s awesome.

That is just stunning.[00:43:00]

Podcast Transcript

Episode 22

[00:00:00] As part of Ferrari Fridays, William Ross from the Exotic Car Marketplace will be discussing all things Ferrari and interviewing people that live and breathe the Ferrari brand. Topics range from road cars to racing, drivers to owners, as well as auctions, private sales, and trends in the collector market.

Hello everyone! Welcome back to the Ferrari Marketplace presented by the Motoring Podcast Network, MPN. Be sure you check out the web channel, motoringpodcast. net. I am your host, William Ross. And I am coming to you from my newly set up office in my house. So, uh, I got off my lazy ass and finally did what I wanted to do.

For a [00:01:00] long time and move myself out from my basically dining room area up to one of our spare bedrooms That was just basically collecting all my clothes So anyway, it’s Ferrari Friday, and we are here this week to talk about Cavalino 2020 West Palm Beach, those of you not all that too familiar with Cavalino, uh, they’ve been having this event for a while.

Uh, if you never heard of Cavalino, the magazine, if you’re a Ferrari person, I’m sure you have, but if you’re not very much Ferrari person, I highly recommend checking out the Cavalino magazine. Fantastic magazine. Uh, it’s a quarterly magazine, not cheap, but it’s an excellent publication. Very, very well put together.

Now Canoosa events took over three years ago. I think it was something like that Uh, the start of handlers and they start actually expanding they do an event in the Middle East I think they’re getting ready to do one in Asia. They might be doing Asia. I could be wrong. Don’t quote me on that Uh, but they do an excellent job.

They, you know, check out [00:02:00] Canoosa events. They also do, obviously they do driving events, rally events. So they had to do quite a bit of stuff, uh, around the globe. But I said, Cavalino is a Ferrari specific event that here in the United States is held down in West Palm beach. Uh, it’s a beautiful, beautiful, was it hotel?

Is it Breaker’s hotel? Um, I think it’s Breaker’s. God, my mind just went blank. You know, I was there two weeks ago. Getting old sucks, you know? Um, but anyways, the hotel. Uh, that is, you know, it’s got well, they have it because it’s got a golf course. So they have it on the green. But now here’s the one thing about this event.

It’s not massive. It’s not big by any means. You probably got maybe 60, 80 cars at best. Um, something along those lines, but what is presented there and what they curate for this event is absolutely phenomenal. I mean, you got some, I mean, the best, I say the best of the best, but I mean, you got some spectacular Ferraris that come to this event.

You know, there’s, uh, obviously they always have a 250 GTO. Uh, they had some 212 [00:03:00] Inters. They’ve, you know, they had a Testarossa. Um, the TR I’m speaking of, the original ones, uh, of course they did have some of the actual, the Testarossas from the 80s and early 90s. Uh, they had basically, when you walked in, you know, uh, if you’re familiar with this hotel at all, it’s got this huge, like when you come in off of basically what is it, A1A, whatever it is, that road, it’s got that huge drive entrance that you drive up to the hotel, it’s all tree lined and everything, it’s absolutely gorgeous.

Well, and the one area what they have then is, you know, they had, um, I guess you would say the, the, uh, interviewing area, uh, that they had set up there, you know, obviously interviewing yourself and doing video, that kind of stuff, and audio recording that, but they had basically your Testarossa 512 and, uh, 512Ms, your 512TRs, and then your Testarossas there, and they had some spectacular cars there, there was a gorgeous one, I’m, I, I, I’m a fan, not a fan of tan interior, but this, I gotta say, this one, It was like a blue, I forget what it’s called, blue [00:04:00] churro, churro, it’s like it’s something.

Anyways, it was, it was a very, very rare color in regards to, you don’t normally see, uh, uh, Tessarosa, a TR, a 512M in this color. Very, very rare. Uh, I’m a big fan. I love the 512TRs and the 512M is a spectacular car. Obviously one year only, uh, for the final iteration basically of the tester. So the five 12 TR was 92 to 94, and then.

95, I don’t, I think it was only 95, I don’t think there was any 96, but I think it was only 95 model year was for the 512TR, I mean 512M, but the 512TR because it was just a great, great evolution of the Testarossa, they, you know, they fixed all the kind of little niggles and wiggles and whatnot with the Testarossa and really refined it up to horsepower, uh, just kind of, you know, smoothed it out a bit, you know, just kind of, you know, I guess they take away the edginess a little bit.

Um, now, on the Testarossa side [00:05:00] itself, I, you know, I’m a big fan of the early ones with the single mirror, the flying mirror, the monopisto, monopesto, however you pronounce that again in my Italian. I don’t speak Italian. Um, but, you know, those things. I love the flying mirror because it’s got a cool presence to it.

It’s got a cool look down the road. But, now, oddly enough, I’m not a fan of the red Ferraris. Uh, you would think me being the Ferrari person, you know, love Ferraris, that I love the red. Well, red’s not my favorite color. I don’t like tan interiors, so red tan is just, it’s on, way down my list. I prefer a darker color.

Now, I take red with black interior, that I can tolerate, but if I’m gonna have, you know, my druthers, I’ll probably, my first choice is always gonna be black. Um, I think that’s just, a car looks spectacular in black. Um, um, um, Obviously, it’s a pain in the, you know what, to keep clean. You know, after you wash it, two minutes later, it’s dirty.

But, I just think a black car presents somewhere, it just looks mean that way. But then, you know, after that, you start using other colors. You know, I, I like a [00:06:00] yellow. I think a yellow, the Giallo, uh, is spectacular as well. Uh, don’t get me wrong. I think, you know, obviously, that’s what they’re known for. Being the red, you know, the red car.

But, um, To me, I don’t know. I just, it’s not my favorite color of a car, but anyways, I, I wouldn’t turn one away, but anyways, getting back to the event, like I was saying is, you know, when you came in, you had the one, um, you know, you walked down the entrance way. Uh, I can say security is pretty tight. So, and it was pretty spectacular watching what cars came in.

Cause now, even before you got in to go into the event itself, get your little, uh, Wristband or whatever you want to call it. Now they have those little nylon things that just kind of slide up. And so instead of having the plastic stuff, which is great, you know, Hey, it’s better for the environment, I guess.

Um, maybe people more inclined to keep it cause it’s got the name on it. Uh, it says Cavalino, but, um, anyways, they have different levels and everything for you to get in. And it’s not cheap to get into this event. I will say that and by no means am I bragging or anything like that, but I just say [00:07:00] they charge a lot of money because you just said it’s not a massive event.

It says they don’t get all that many cars, so to speak, where you got, you know, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of cars and you got thousands and thousands, thousands of people. It’s very nice because it’s not crammed. You don’t have like people on top of people, like say you’re an Amelia or something along those lines, uh, or out of pebble, you know, it’s, Oh, it’s very, very well managed in regards to crowd control.

I guess you’ll speak now. I’m not saying that they, I’m sure they have a limit to regards to, Hey. Uh, ticket wise, I know like with the upper echelon, if you look at their website in regards to what it costs, like for packages and whatnot, it ain’t cheap. Like I said, Saturday alone, just take it, go on Saturdays, 480.

If you want to just go on Sunday, which is the concourse day is 680. So I don’t see, you know, I always just go on Saturday. I don’t ever go on Sunday cause I just don’t see the point. Cause it’s pretty much all the same cars. So I’m like, why would I come back the next day to see what I just saw the day before?

So, you know, [00:08:00] um, now, unless I was able to score media credentials for this event, which I was not able to, I guess I’m just not, you know, I don’t have that type of pull yet, but hopefully we’ll get there someday and maybe we’ll go to both days. But right now, if it’s coming out of my pocket, I’m only gonna go one day on Saturday.

But anyways, even for going in though, I have to say the parking lot. itself was amazing in regards to cars that people brought there just to drive there to the event. Now parking is very limited because obviously this is a operating functioning hotel. So obviously they have hotel guests and everything going on.

So then all of a sudden you have this event on top of it. So parking got kind of limited and parking. If you wanted to park a little bit of ways, it was 40, but if you wanted to park in the hotel, it was 50. And that was if you were able to get in and they were pretty picky about what kind of cars are going in and I said They were turning some way, but I must say Spectacular what cars were in the parking lot itself?

I mean just a lineup of some spectacular pieces [00:09:00] of machinery Ferraris, but I will say John Tamari from curated We are curated. He brought a Diablo GT that they had just got over from Japan Black on black stunning car. They actually have two available They’re probably already sold more than likely but I will say that guys are curated are able to acquire and hunt down and get their hands on some of the Awesome machinery most specifically Lamborghinis now they get in a lot of other stuff as well But Lamborghinis seem to be the forte, you know people hunt them down But hey, they got it and check out the showroom if you’re ever down in Miami They’re super nice guys.

Go check them out. But anyways, the parking lot itself was spectacular. I mean you had, you know, obviously you got SF90s, F8s You had Carrera GT You know, there’s a 918 YSAC, obviously, you know, not Ferrari, but you know, some other spectacular stuff There’s a Challenge for Dali Obviously have your Token, you know, Rolls Royces and that kind of stuff.

But, you know, cause it’s just old money down there in West [00:10:00] Palm Beach. Um, if you’ve never been down that way, it’s just, I’ve seen. Some of these houses, um, and just the amount of money that some of these people have. It’s just, it’s just obscene, you know, um, It just makes you wonder, where’s all this money come from?

I mean, it’s just, makes you think you’re not trying hard enough or something for that. But anyways, so, getting into the event. Obviously, I have kind of different levels of, you know, uh, spectator wise, what not. Like I said, I just bought the cheap one, the 480. You go up from there. But anyways, so when you go in, Yeah, there’s, they have a upper level, uh, where they have the really, really nice stuff.

Uh, that’s where they had a 250 Inter, they had a P4, um, that was spectacular. Uh, yellow, it had the blue wheels on it, um, spectacular. Uh, I don’t know if any of you guys listening, go and check out the YouTube channel, um, we have that up. I dropped video there. I had several stuff, long ones, short ones, kind of going over everything.

Got the long one going to walk around the whole show field over [00:11:00] there, but then also kind of got stuff them unloading, but anyways Say 212 enter they have 250 SWB. They had a SWB go Cal spider that LWB Cal spider It was kind of neat seeing those two next to each other because you can see the nuances of the difference between a short wheel Base and a long wheel base now everyone knows everyone Maybe they don’t know, but obviously the covered headlight short wheelbase is the most coveted of the cow spiders.

So those ones are in the upper teens, low twenties in regards to price, whereas the long wheelbase, you’re going to be high single digits, low double digits and millions of dollars. So, you know, um, if you look between two, obviously it’s all about collectability and, you know, production numbers. So me, I long wheelbase short wheelbase doesn’t matter.

I would take you to the one, but absolutely spectacular cars. Um, Trying to you know said but check out the YouTube channel because I say there’s some spectacular stuff that you know You got to see now like I said, I’m on that [00:12:00] upper level They also had that art car that h12 competition or competition As they like they call it that was up on the upper left.

That was yellows like an art car It was kind of really neat because it wasn’t anything too crazy Um, but it was really, really well presented. So, and I was trying to look at it. I’m very sure, I think it is a paint job. I don’t think it’s a wrap, but I mean, almost kind of the way the matte paint looked like it was almost like it was a wrap.

But, uh, it was kind of cool to see that, but then, like I said, you know, um, up there is a little more crowded, I would say. So it was a little bit difficult here and there to try and get some shots of stuff, but just, you know, you bide your time. Like I said, you know, people are pretty courteous, uh, wandering around and kind of, you know, notice that you guys, you’re shooting video and trying to check things out and take photos, uh, because what I had done is I got there first thing, uh, try to beat some of the crowds, uh, did what I did and I actually left for a little bit and I came back.

Um, feet and back are hurting. There’s a lot of walking. I actually was able to park a little ways away, so I had to do a little bit of a hike to get over to the event, but hey, I didn’t [00:13:00] have to pay 40 or 50 to park. So, anyways, like I said, up top, they just, they have an absolute awesome selection of cars. I mean, high end stuff.

I mean, you’re talking multi million dollar stuff. Uh, and these guys, you know, obviously are getting judged, so, you know, what was really neat to see, and this is on all the cars that are there at the event, is, like, having all the accoutrements that I guess come with the car. Tool rolls. All that kind of stuff.

Documentation, your Class E certification, Red Book. Uh, it’s really neat seeing all that kind of stuff. Um, the one, I guess, the one thing I like to see though is the owner actually doing it. Now the one thing you’ll find when you go to a lot of these events is you’re going to have someone from either a handler or someone from a dealership, someone along those lines.

Someone that, you know, obviously helps them buy and sell cars, what have you, these owners. Um, I don’t know, someone they don’t want to deal with it or what have you. I mean, they might not even be there. But, uh, it’s really cool to see owners actually [00:14:00] talking with the judges, going over everything with the judges, and them actually knowing about their car.

You know, it was, um, I saw a couple, I’m not going to name names, but you can tell, I don’t know if they, maybe they just bought the car. Um, but they must not have really done much homework, but obviously. They were being kind of coached a bit saying, okay, when they come up, this is what they’re going to ask.

And then, you know, it’s like maybe it was their first time. I don’t know, but, um, it’s a little disappointing when you see an owner that really doesn’t know their car, I guess you could say, like I said, give them the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they just got the car. Who knows but you know some of these people seem like it’s more about hey, it’s a status thing Oh, yeah, I own a Ferrari instead of actually it’s about the passion of the brand and the car And just loving this thing You know, I get it, you know, you get quite a few of these guys have you know, multiple cars If not hundreds of cars, you know, but I know a few that are absolutely very passionate They know their cars inside and out.

They just they know their [00:15:00] stuff very very well Um, but you know, it’s just, it’s great to see when an owner actually is handling the judges and actually talking with the judges and know their cars and going, going over everything with them because they scrutinize the hell out of these cars. I mean, it could, you know, turn signals, start in the car, the right light bulbs, they check under the hood in regards to even like hose clamps.

I mean, they get down to the nitty gritty in regards to what they’re actually, you know, looking for and judging, you know, and obviously, you know, they’re trying to get that coveted, you know, you want to get 96 points or above, um, you know, and get it and win the prize. So, um, you know, that’s what they’re looking for.

Uh, and, you know, you got these guys that are very, very dedicated in regards to wanting to get that. Because one, It’s an actual selling point for the car if you can say it won at Cavalino. It got this at Cavalino or what have you. I mean, or hey, anywhere. I mean, you wouldn’t like it at Amelia or Pebble Beach or something like that.

That’s massive. But you know, you get something at Cavalino and get judged and you get a, [00:16:00] you know, a high score. That bodes well for you if you want to go and resell your car at that point in time. And I can say, you know, you might get quite a few of these guys, that’s their goal. Is they wait, they present it at Cavalino, they get their score, they get it out there in the public, kind of people see it and know it.

Alright, hey, it’s available, so I want to buy it. Cause they can charge a premium then, because it just won at Cavalino. Take a sip of my Diet Mountain Dew here. Apologize for that sound. And I wet my whistle. But anyways. So going out on to, I guess you would say the regular field, uh, but like I said, on the upper level, I think maybe they had 12 cars, you know, so again, it wasn’t like they had all that many up, you know, it wasn’t like they said, it’s not a massive show, it’s not like they got hundreds and hundreds of cars, but like I said, so they had about 12, so if you go down on the lower level, you kind of got to go out and come back around, because it’s up on this thing, they got this wall, whatever, but anyways, you You go back around on the lower, we start walking down there and other thing they got, you know, the new four hours.

They got a, uh, it’s, um, what the dealer was. I can’t remember. I don’t know if it was, uh, there’s something from down in that [00:17:00] area. Um, but the Ferrari dealer presented, uh, all the new stuff. They had a Pearl St. Way there. So I got to sit in that. I got to check it out. That thing is awesome. I gotta say, I mean, I was impressed with it when I first seen it, you know, it came out, all the specs, everything that, and I first saw it, uh, I was like, I liked that a lot.

Um, But I want to say be able to sit in it and really check it out. It’s got a lot of back seat leg room. I think that thing is sweet. I mean I can see why those things are going for basically double to triple of what they actually are to buy at MSRP. Um, it’s a great car. And that was all, as we know, with all these things.

99. 9 percent of these people aren’t taking these things off road. It ain’t an off road vehicle. They’re not going off road with these things. Yeah, you’re going to have your YouTubers. Yeah, you’re going to have your Yutzes that got more money they know what to do with. And just beat the hell out of these things and make them off road.

But 99. 9%. Of these people that buy these things aren’t going off road. So look fry knows that You know, so I [00:18:00] apologize for that. Um So anyways, this thing is slick I gotta say if you ever get the opportunity to see one in person check it out. It’s a cool car So another one that they have was the new s SF90XX.

Now as you Ferrari aficionados know, the XX program usually has always been designated for race only cars, race cars, racetrack only cars. Um, and some spectacular ones that it is very limited. And run by Ferrari’s clientele program, where it’s basically, you know, you’re just paying them, you own the car, but they kind of hold on to it, uh, it gets shipped around wherever, racetracks, you just fly into it, you know, and the price of these cars, you know, you’re, you’re able to, it’s not a problem to fly into these places and these venues that they have these events at.

So. But, this SF90XX is the first actual road legal XX that they’re actually putting out. And, I I, I want to say, I can’t remember what the actual production is. I know they’re [00:19:00] not doing too many of them. I mean they’re doing more than normal. I will say because it’s street legal. Um, but you know, obviously you’re not talking thousands and thousands.

They’re not doing like to do with SF 90 where, Hey, we’re just building them. Um, and have at it, uh, cause like, Hey, the purse hangway, same thing. You know, they’re, they’re supposedly limiting production. Um, but anyways, I know I can’t remember what time I had, but anyways, that thing was spectacular too. I think it looked mean.

I mean, I think it really. It really accentuates that car very, very well in regards to, you know, making it more aggressive looking how that thing is going to be on the street though. It’s probably gonna beat the shit out of you. You know, uh, that suspension is going to be stiff, everything like that. Cause let’s face it.

Yeah, you can drive on the street, but it is still, it’s a track day car based on what it boils down to. It’s a track day car, but I will say it did look cool. That thing was spectacular. So that was cool to see that. So then as you walk down on to more of the show, feel the main show field, You know, you started, it kind of went age wise in regards to going, so when you started at the beginning part, it started basically in your early stuff, into your 50s, [00:20:00] then you got into your 60s.

So, basically, but to start out with what I thought was spectacular, you started getting into was the 275 GTBs. Um, there was actually, I think it’s one of the three, uh, aluminum competition 275 GTB4s. Oh, God, that thing was gorgeous. Um, just stripped out, I mean, and the cool thing is, obviously when they’re judging, a lot of these times, you know, they got to start the car.

So that was really cool to see that. I’ll say if you check out some other videos when they’re unloading, I got some of these cars like driving everything as well. But, uh, anyways, a lot of 275 GTB four cams that were there. That’s one of my favorite cars. I mean, I think spectacular. Um, it’s just, it’s a gorgeous car.

Great to drive. I mean, it’s just, it’s a great, great car. Uh, so then it says you kind of worked your way down and started to said. As you go down, the age of the cars start getting newer and newer. Uh, you get into it, obviously you had the 288 GTOs there, which again is probably one of my favorite Ferraris as well.

Uh, then you got into your F40s, you had plenty of F40s there, plenty of F50s there. So [00:21:00] it was really neat seeing those. And it’s kind of neat seeing, especially, um, between F40s and F50s, because those are old enough, obviously, that you can import European models and bring those in as compared to U. S. A.

specific, uh, built models bringing in. So it’s kind of neat to see them next to each other. Cause you can see the little differences between the two from what the European regulations allow and what us regulations allow regard like side marker, lights, bumpers, that kind of stuff. Um, you know, it was unfortunate cause some of the things the USA market made you do in regards to make these things, uh, real legal, uh, kind of ugly fight them, but you know, it’s not too bad, but the one thing like, especially with that forties.

which was very nice. Not so much F 50. I mean, yeah, a couple of things they had to tack on there, side marker lights and that, but, uh, great thing about an F 50, a USA one, which why they’re really coveted of the 213 out of the 1, 348 that were built. 213 of them were US specific. Is the U. S. models did not have to [00:22:00] have, or I’m sorry, had to have an aluminum gas tank, whereas the European ones, it was just a bladder.

Uh, which the bladder has to be replaced every five years, no matter what. It’s, it doesn’t matter mileage, what not, it’s just a, it’s a time thing. Uh, same kind of thing with those cars though is, you know, every five years you gotta have your major service. On those things, belts, whatnot. It’s just one of those things because the car, you know, you’re driving it, what have you.

Um, and it ain’t cheap, but you know, it’s kind of, but again, it’s kinda neat see in that. So, um, that’s why those USA ones that were covered, it just kind of the one only 213 out of the 1348 built. Um, but anyways, so as I said, you got down going to that fifties, then you got into your newer stuff, uh, got into some more Testa Rosas, um, you know, you got into, you know, just there’s some cool Dinos.

I like that. So I highly recommend it. Check out the video. Walk around with it. But, again, you know, it’s a great event. Now, if you’re a Ferrari aficionado, again, it’s a steep price to get in. And again, you know, staying around that area is not cheap. I was [00:23:00] lucky. I scored a beach, a beach, I scored a Verbo down in Lake Worth Beach, which was probably, it was about 15 minutes, 10, 15 minutes because of, and it’s not because of distance, it was just because all the roads driving up to there, unless you drive up to 95, took 95 up and got back off, which almost seems to take the same amount of time, uh, just because of traffic.

Um. It was great. Yo, I think it was for I was there from Thursday to Sunday, and I will say it was, I think it was this about 500 bucks, but it’s cool little thing. Lake Worth Beach is really cool. So if you ever that area, check out Lake Worth Beach. Uh, it’s a neat little area. Uh, but anyways. Check out the video online.

I said, again, I highly recommend checking out Cavalino yourself. Uh, if you have the opportunity and you want to, you know, spurge a little bit, because it’s a lot of fun. You guys see some great, great stuff. And the other cool thing is they do not like say fence off, uh, or put the velvet ropes around. The cars, so it’s like you can get right up on them.

You can get there, check them [00:24:00] out, you get to see them, you know, stick your head in, take photos, I mean, you really can get in there and take a look at these cars, which is great. Um, so, I highly recommend it. Check out the video. And, uh, let’s see here till what happens next Ferrari Friday, uh, working on something.

And then, guys, remember to check out the Motoring Podcast Network. We got a lot of exciting stuff coming up, uh, this year. We got new shows being added as we speak. So keep an eye on that and until next time guys, we appreciate you listening. Have a good one.

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