Exotic Car Marketplace

In this episode of Ferrari Fridays, William Ross from the Exotic Car Marketplace delves into the world of Ferrari, covering road cars, racing, drivers, owners, auctions, private sales, and collector market trends. Broadcasting from his newly set-up home office, Ross focuses on Cavallino 2024 at West Palm Beach, discussing its rich history, the event’s setup, and highlighting some of the exceptional Ferraris showcased, including rare 512TRs, Testarossas, and 275 GTBs. He also touches on the Ferrari Purosangue and SF90XX models, detailing their features and market impact. Ross gives insight into the judging process and the prestige associated with high scores at Cavallino, making it clear that this event is a haven for Ferrari enthusiasts despite its high cost and exclusivity.

• 00:00 Introduction to Ferrari Fridays
• 00:37 Welcome and Host Introduction
• 00:59 Cavallino 2024 Event Overview
• 02:39 Highlights of Cavallino 2024
• 05:14 Personal Preferences and Ferrari Colors
• 08:14 Event Logistics and Parking
• 10:27 Upper Level Highlights
• 16:28 Main Show Field and Car Highlights
• 23:37 Conclusion and Recommendations
• 24:16 Closing Remarks and Sponsorship

[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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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. Topics range from road cars to racing; drivers to owners, as well as auctions, private sales and trends in the collector market.