Exotic Car Marketplace

• 00:00 Overview of the Ferrari Marketplace Podcast
• 01:05 Cavallino 2025 Event Overview
• 01:56 Travel Woes and Weather Challenges
• 04:31 Exploring Ferrari Palm Beach
• 05:55 Cavallino Event Ticket Prices and How I got In
• 08:36 Highlights from the Cavallino Event
• 15:27 Reflections on Ferrari Models and Market Trends
• 17:00 Ferrari and Lamborghini Six-Speed Swaps
• 18:29 Show Field Setup and Experience
• 18:43 Upper Level Car Display
• 20:52 Ferrari’s New Models
• 23:48 Santino Ferrucci and the 599XX
• 28:29 People Watching at the Event
• 30:03 Event Summary and Final Thoughts
• 31:42 Upcoming Episodes and Announcements

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org. All the links are posted up in the description. So we’re talking about Cavalino 2025 today in this episode, this podcast, wherever you like to call it. So, as usual, January is Cavalino time down in Palm Beach, Florida. And interesting enough, one, this year the weather was a bit crappy. It was cold, and as everyone knows that lives here in this country, what’s going on, California is burning to the ground, but then actually the Southern United States States was into a freeze.

I mean, some really rarely see, but it’s coming more and more common, but they’re just not equipped for it. So there were some people that we knew are supposed to come down from Georgia and some of those surrounding areas and they couldn’t even leave their house. The roads were just impassable. They couldn’t even come down.

I mean, unbelievable. So, and down in Florida. I got the whole story. I’ll go into here real quick. Florida was cold. Here’s the, I was leaving. My flight was Wednesday [00:02:00] morning. Last Wednesday was that January 20, whatever it was, or whatever that day was. It was negative four here in Cleveland. It was cold. We get to the airport, our flight starts getting delayed.

My flight in total got delayed five hours. But here’s the thing, I flew Frontier, which I rarely ever do. It was the only way I could get a direct flight. United was just asking for an astronomical amount of money to go direct and then trying something reasonable was going to be changing flights either in Chicago or Houston or somewhere.

Like, I’m not doing that. So I just fly Frontier to direct flight. How bad could it be, right? Oh well, it was bad. First it was, they had to warm the plane up, because the ground crew from the night before and that just didn’t do what they were supposed to do with hooking things up. Well then it turns out that the toilet lines for the waste and everything were frozen solid.

So I guess they couldn’t have that. So they were trying to do whatever they could with that to try and warm, get it up, because also it was about also filling up the plane with potable water. So that was the other problem. So they just couldn’t do it. After about two hours, [00:03:00] they move the gate and get a new plane.

Now, in the meantime, other Frontier flights are leaving from the airport. Whatever is going on, who knows, but we actually kind of came to the conclusion we think it really wasn’t a lot of maintenance stuff. It was more, hey, they just didn’t have the crew to handle. They didn’t have the stewards or the pilots or whatever.

Because all of a sudden we get to the new plane, new gate, same exact thing. All pilots got to warm the plane up. It’s cold. So this should take, you know, half hour, hour, then same thing. Well, the lines are froze. I don’t know. Same crap. Five hours later, we finally get off and take off. So negative four, I mean, it was freezing here in Cleveland, just bitter cold.

So it got down to Florida. It wasn’t actually that bad. It was kind of nice. You know, it’s better than negative four, but it was in the. Mid fifties, high fifties, something like that, or low sixties, so, obviously, hey, I’ll take it compared to negative four, so, it wasn’t bad. So, Thursday, same thing, it was high fifties, low sixties, still, not bad, but Friday, it was cold.

It was in the low fifties, all day, and the other problem was, it [00:04:00] was raining. There was rain going on, on Wednesday and Thursday, not so much Friday, but the problem is, you know, you have Cavalino, it’s at the Breakers Hotel, and they have it on the golf course, part of the course, it’s in front of the hotel.

So it’s like, oh, are they going to let these cars drive on the course? Obviously, they have an unbelievable drainage system and everything there. I was a bit surprised they did. Onward, because I did a few other things too that were really cool. We checked out Anthony Laurel’s, if you don’t know, check out hotshoestudios.

com. He creates some most unbelievable artwork. A lot of Ferrari related stuff, everything like that. He does some really, really cool stuff. So he checked out his shop, went over to a Ferrari Palm Beach, met up with my buddy, Bud Root, who’s been there forever. And I got to give a big shout out to Bud. I’m not sure how many of you follow or aware, but I’m a big animal advocate.

I volunteer and help out on a few animal shelters in this area. And Bud’s been actually taking care of this kitty. named Blondie for got 15 plus years, he said, taking her got her neutered because that’s one little trick for you guys. If you see a feral cat or cat running around outside, if it’s ears clipped at the [00:05:00] top, so it’s like flat, that means they got fixed.

So, but Bud’s been taking care of it. This cat shows up like clockwork twice a day to get fed. And he featured and just kudos to him. My heart goes out, this is my bud, such a good guy. So, we checked out Ferrari at Palm Beach. They had some cool stuff. They had a little hidden gem up on the second floor because it’s a two story showroom, I guess you could say.

Is they had a 812 Competitione up there and it’s one of one color. It was Rosso Double. It was so cool. It was almost, it was like a really deep, almost like a root beer maroonish chair. I mean, gorgeous color, sweet, sweet car. Anyways, off market. So, if you’re looking for a car, let me know. Looking for an 812 comp?

Hey, I can get my hands, actually I can get my hands on two. Cause they’re a bit pricey at that one. They’re at 1. 8. Actually, I know of another one that’s got less miles. It’s a 2024. Where’s that one at Friar Palm Beach is 2023, but a 2024 one with 54 miles, something like that. I think it was red exterior color, 1.

5. So I can save you 300 grand if that’s how my public school math works. But anyways, this whole time I’m getting ready to go to Cavalino. I’m [00:06:00] not sure if you ever looked or were aware of it, but it was 480 a ticket to attend this event. Yeah, you heard me right. 480 for one person just to go and that was for the one day.

That’s just for one day, the Saturday. It’s a multi day event. There’s stuff going on Sunday too, so if you had to buy another ticket for that, was another couple hundred dollars. Freaking highway robbery. And here’s the thing, Cavalino used to be run, you know, almost like how Amelia was. It was more like kind of family or whatnot, mall group running, everything like that, firing, doing this, yada, yada.

Well, they sold out to Canoosa Events. Well, Canoosa Events basically almost tripled the price of the tickets. When I first started going, tickets were like 120 bucks, which is reasonable, that’s great. 480 this year for a ticket. So I kept dragging my feet. It’s like, I really don’t want to spend 480 to go and see stuff that I could probably finagle my way to see for free anyways.

But I mean, the one key thing, and they kind of put me over that, hey, I got to go, is I found out that the F80 was going to be there. That’s what they were saying. I got to go. I [00:07:00] kept dragging my feet though. Come Friday night. We go out to dinner, be Dave Beattie from slot mods. And this one gentleman, John Romano, super cool guy, vintage racers.

Got some gorgeous cars, went out to dinner. I got back to my hotel on those nine 30, 10 o’clock. So I was like, well, I guess I got to suck it up and buy a ticket. Okay, I guess the universe is telling me that I guess I shouldn’t be going to this or something or spending that money. I’m like, all right, I live with it.

Cause like, you know what? I can do whatever. I’ll figure it out. If you watch the video up on my YouTube channel at Garage 65, you’ll see it’s a little more in depth. So anyways, last year. I did this, you know, I have, I went to the event, but in the morning I had gotten up and I just went and checked out all the cars getting unloaded, getting them driven over, doing that kind of stuff.

So I was like, you know what, I’ll just do that. So like around 630 AM, got up, I went up to the Breakers Hotel, got myself parked up. So I walked around. I went over to the one main area where they kind of do a lot of unloading. Now there’s a big parking lot obviously for the Breakers Hotel where they already had a lot of the cars staged up.

I think they set them up the night before or [00:08:00] whatever. So I went where a lot of the trailers were at for dropping off the cars and getting them set up. So I was checking out. So I’m like, well, alright, really not much is happening. There was a cool F40 LM that I was hoping it was going to get unloaded when I was standing there, and I kind of dicked around and it never got unloaded, so I didn’t know if it got onto the show field.

So I walk over to the hotel, and obviously they’re setting up, cars are driving up. I just walked right onto the field, which was awesome. I’m like, okay, cool. The F 80 was there. It was still partially covered. So like, I don’t know, maybe I might not get to see it completely, whatever, but hey, I got to see, I got to see part of it, right?

So I started walking around taking tons of video, taking lots of photos, checking out all the cars. This year’s special was the F50 they’re giving tribute to. So there’s just tons and tons of F50s coming on. And down the road, I got to get set up. I’m waiting to hear back from them, from the people at Gentleman’s Garage, Tom Flory, Flory, something, I think that’s his name.

If you watch his channel, he’s got some gorgeous stuff that he just picked up. These Giallo F50, which there was only seven made F50s, I think, in Giallo. [00:09:00] 33 worldwide. Super nice guy, so I talked to him a bit. Saw JR from GT Motorcars, he was there. I saw a bunch of other people and talked to people, got some other things set up, so it wasn’t bad.

It’s nice because it’s low key at this point in time because it’s just these guys setting the car up, setting the cars up. A majority of them are either A, they work for the owner. And they’re handling the car right there. So there’s a down to earth dude that, Hey, they’re just doing their job, you know, getting set up.

So, you know, you shoot the breeze with them. You chit chat and check things out and talk and everything like that. Or you got the guys, that’s the only Ferrari they have and it’s their baby. We’re not talking some little 1979 or. 1983, 08, or anything like that. You know, they got some nice stuff, couple 512s, some older stuff, like, there’s a, was it a 212 export?

There’s some beautiful stuff. There was actually this one gorgeous one too, listen up. I gotta give a shout out to Hugh Angle. Hugh, I’ll send you the link for this, you can listen up. And I can never pronounce their entity. They have two showrooms. They got one here down in Miami, but they also have one over in Germany.

Schaltkuhlesee. I don’t know if I’m pronouncing that [00:10:00] right, but it’s S C H A L T K U L I S S E. They’re at 277 Northeast 61st Street in Miami, Florida. If you’re down there, definitely go check out this room. They get some really cool stuff. Hugh is a super nice guy. I’m trying to get him to come on the show, but he had a customer’s car there that they just got restored.

They got it painted back to the factory color that it was. It was like this icy blue. And then they did the blue interior, which I just absolutely love. I guess at some point in time, the life, it was a Dino by the way, I apologize. Some point in time in his life, someone painted it red and you know, did tan interior, everything like that.

Went to that standard, you know, hey, red, tan, which, yeah, as far as that, I prefer colors. Yeah, red’s a color. I hate light colored interior. I hate tan interior. I like dark colored interiors. Red, black, there’s blue, dark blue, gorgeous. Ferrari does this gorgeous dark blue. You know, if they have a, on a 360 is more prevalent, not so much on a 430s, but they got a dark blue.

That’s just absolutely stunning. I’m horrible at saying the factory calls these colors. I am absolutely [00:11:00] terrible. My brain does not work that way. And remembering all these different names and all these kinds of stuff for the color. It’s blue. It’s yellow. It’s red. I know they have these fancy names for it.

There’s tons of guys out there can just rattle this stuff off. They walk up and they say, Oh, it’s, my brain doesn’t work that way. I had a lot of fun in college. I killed a lot of brain cells. My brain just can’t store the information that way. So I call it as I see it, I own up to it. What can you do?

Gorgeous, gorgeous Dino. I mean, just stunning Dino. And again, you super nice guy. So I’m walking around and talk some other people and you don’t have your pretentious pricks there yet because they’re all just sitting there getting all dressed up and coming. and hanging out at the, uh, event. They’re preening and just peacocking around and stuff like that.

Cause that’s what you’re going to find a lot of these people do. These vets, that’s so much going to check out the car and stuff. They’re just there to peacock just there to say, Hey, look at me. You know, they’re holding court. They got these people all around them that are kissing their ass because they’re the hanger ons or whatnot.

And they stroke this person’s ego. So they keep them hanging around. It’s pretty pathetic. I don’t get that. I mean, [00:12:00] if you don’t want to hang out with me cause if you like hanging out and having some fun, that, that is just, ain’t me. You know what? I’m not there to kiss your ass and you get a lot of these people that got a lot of money.

That’s all they’re looking for. And then they want to treat you like shit. They want to make themselves feel better. So they cut you down. And so they just laugh and giggle, you know, and think it’s funny and stuff like that. Not my cup of tea. I do not do that. That’s just not how I live my life. If you can’t respect me, I’m not gonna respect you.

But anyways, I snuck in so I saved myself the 480 which, woohoo, that’s fantastic. And it started warming up so it was getting nice. Kind of a side note too, I actually had my dates kind of screwed up and I was actually supposed to fly back on Saturday and I messed up so I changed my flight back to Sunday.

Which, uh, kind of worked out well because When I got done, I was able to get some other stuff accomplished, which helps out my other little side endeavor I help out with, which is ACBC, which is aluminum cans for burned children. We help support pediatric burn survivors by working with over a hundred local fire stations and departments, collecting aluminum cans and donations and everything like that.

We do [00:13:00] events to raise money and we send them to camp a couple of times a year and do whatever else we can for them. Check it out. It’s ACBCOhio. org. You can get all the information. It’s really cool. If you want to donate. Check it out. Hey, there’s a link on there to donate to as well. So I’m walking around, you know, they’re doing all the setup, which is cool.

Cause it’s not crowded. And I was able to get a lot of cool video. And when I first walked onto the field, you know, I was expecting within five minutes to get kicked off. Cause I was like looking around to see if someone had badges or anything like that, or kind of a, you know, a lanyard with a tag or a badge on it.

No one did. So everyone’s just coming in, walk around, get stuff. It’s like, all right, I’m good. I mean, it crossed my mind, like, well, Hey, I could just probably just hang out and just. Not have to worry about it. But here’s the problem, how the layout is. One, this is at 7. 30, 8 o’clock in the morning. The event didn’t start till 10.

So I really didn’t feel like hanging out there that long. Once you see all the cars, you go through them, you talk to who you needed to talk to, who I wanted to talk to, and everything like that. I was good. They don’t get hundreds and hundreds of cars at this event. It’s probably about 75 cars, maybe, if that, maybe 65 cars.

So, I mean, it’s not like you got to spend all day like [00:14:00] you’re at Amelia or something like that, or say Moda, where you got tons and tons of cars, and it’s going to take you all day to go through and see them all. So, they have everything lined up nice, they kind of go. Kind of, I’m going to say by year, make, model, that kind of stuff.

So they kind of have them all clustered together. There was a really cool little cluster of cars that we had a 512 M or they would add a few yellow cars. And again, shout out to JR. They had a party, which I didn’t get invited to. It was on a Wednesday, but of course I wouldn’t have been able to attend to it because my flight was late.

He did a cool part, but he had a lot of the Giallo collection of cars. There was a, uh, 550, 512 M, I think a 512 TR, a 575 Super America, I think it was as well. So that’s some sweet. Sweet yellow cars a little cluster grouping of them, and I’m a huge fan of the 512 M and the 512 TR I mean, I think it’s great.

So it’s final iterations of the Testarossa I kind of almost prefer the 512 TR over the 512 M because the 512 M went with the flush headlights They tweaked it up a little bit. They tightened it up a little bit. Made it a little more, I’d say, racy for the street. Still a gorgeous looking car. You know, it’s a different [00:15:00] look.

That’s why I like the 512TR the pop up lights. It’s just, the car is more crisp compared to like a Testarossa from your 85s to uh, your 90, 91. Something about it. If you park next to it, you can tell the difference. There’s a little more crisp on the lines. Something about it. But, 512TR is a fabulous car.

I’d love to get my hands on one one day. That’d be one to go tooling around. You can do some grand touring in that. I mean, do some road trips, comfortable V12, just putter along. Testarossa. Yeah, you can do the same thing with it, but I’d love to get my hands out of fire. But anyways, you know, they had some gorgeous, gorgeous stuff.

One thing, cause it’s climbing up in value. And that is a four or five, eight special. They had a couple of those there. So if you’ve been following market trends with that car, that car is going through the roof and it’s only going higher. If you have the means and the way to do it. Go buy a 458 Speciale.

They’re gonna be three quarters of a million dollars in that neighborhood. Maybe six hundred thousand. So they’re not cheap. They are not cheap at all. Especially when you want a really good car that’s got history. It’s got all the paperwork, documentation, and that. That car is unbelievable. That’s your last naturally aspirated V8 [00:16:00] in the Ferrari.

It just screams. You put a good exhaust on that thing. Oh my god, it’s a symphony. They have some of those there. Like I said, you know, again, they don’t have. It’s a ton of the newer stuff. It’s all the older stuff that they seem to focus on. So, which is cool. I love the new stuff. It’s great, but you know, I’m more towards the older stuff.

You know, again, Testarossas, the 550s, the 575s. That stuff’s just beautiful. They have some gorgeous 355s there, which is another one I love to get my hands on. And that’s another one that’s going through the roof. Creeping up, it’s holding its value, that’s for sure. But those are the ones, your 355, 430, your 575s.

You can save yourself a ton of money. None’s like a factory manual. They can say, oh yeah, EAG, everything like that, they do this great kit, blah, blah, blah. Now, there’s a couple other manufacturers that are starting to step up to create these kits for them. And they’re getting better and better. And yeah, you probably really wouldn’t notice this, it’s there, it’s just a mental thing.

And I want to give a shout out to Granberry Hall Performance, they are stepping up their game here soon. I don’t know if they’re starting yet, but I know they are working on it to become like your Midwest connection to get your six speed swaps done on [00:17:00] Ferraris. I don’t know if they’re going to step up and do the Lambo stuff that’s starting to pop up on Mercys and stuff like that, because I know EAG I guess built an incredible, incredible six speed conversion kit for the Lamborghinis as well.

Which means, again, that’s a situation where we’re supposed to be talking Ferraris. But again, that’s a scenario where a factory manual. Mercia Lago is twice if not three times the money as compared to the E gear. So you can get yourself an E gear, save a crap load of money, and then just do a 6 speed swap for 50, 60 grand.

Maybe, even if it’s a little bit more, you’re still saving 150, 100 grand. I mean, you’re saving a lot of money. A little sidebar, I don’t know if any of you guys watch it, but Mr. J. W. W. James, he stumbled across and bought, cause he did the, gumball he did, or I don’t know, he was over, or no I’m sorry, it was for um, Pebble Beach.

He hung out with the DDE boys, and Damon Fryer let him drive his Mercilago the whole week. All the way up from down in, uh, SoCal, all the way up to Pebble Beach. And he just fell in love with it, screaming it’s a [00:18:00] factory manual car. So he says, I gotta get one. Somehow, someway, he found a, a, I want to say it was a right hand drive, Mercedes Lago, E gear, but it had Like a hundred miles on it and I guess, you know, he said, I’m going to buy it.

I’m going to put the swap in it, that all this stuff. And I guess he just got blasted about that because people like, I don’t do that to that car. I mean, that’s and just getting, you know, offers out or anything. So I’m curious to see what he ends up doing that. But anyways, we got a little off side track there to start talking about Lamborghinis back to the show show field.

It’s really cool in this situation about doing this stuff because I had not ever done that before. I said I went over last year and probably just watch it unload. I never really nailed it. Check ’em out, driving the cars up on the field and everything. Getting that kind of set up. So this is really deep.

Now the one way this is set up, kinda going back my comment earlier, you have your lower level where the golf course is. Then you have an upper level where it is like they have a little practice putting green, that kind of stuff. So it’s like when you walk outta the hotel, there’s a little practice putting green area.

So they park up a bunch of cars up there. [00:19:00] It’s usually, it’s all. usually the very older stuff. Stuff that’s significant, i. e. 250 GTO right up front, which I had the pleasure of really kind of getting up and close and personal with. It was Jeff Fisher’s car. We were at a party Thursday night with that and then the next day hung out with the gentleman that did the restoration.

He was doing some detail work on it. Stunning car. Brian Ross had his 250 Testarossa there. Unbelievable car. I missed the opportunity to meet and talk with him and trying to get him to participate in Rockin Revs. So I got to talk with page in his office again. I don’t know what I was doing. I was doing something and he walked by just, I told him and I’m kicking myself in the ass about that.

Cause he’s right up here in Ohio with us out there by Youngstown. So it’s like perfect. And, and yes, we have the same last name and no, we’re not related. Now, I don’t know if he’s got the same lineage and going back to Scotland like I do, but that would be kind of cool. But seemed like a super nice guy. I just missed the opportunity, which sucks.

So hopefully I get another chance one of these days to meet him, speak with him and see what he can do. If not, I guess we’re about to wait again until next year for Cavalino. He’s got an unbelievable collection of [00:20:00] Ferraris. Ultimate goal getting a private tour of his collection of Ferraris because he’s got his one 250 He has one like, you know, you have all your concourse events Uh, Estella, or um, God, I can’t remember the name off the top of my head.

You know, you have all your concourse events, you have the big ones. So all the cars that went best in showing that, they go to Villa, Diesta, and so it’s like, basically, the winner is the best of the best. And then they pick one of that, and his car won, was it this past, in 2024? Huge win! That’s, I mean, that’s significant for that car.

So up top, that’s where it is. But here’s the thing is, is you have to walk out off of the lower show field and walk back into there. So you have to have your little wristband thingy to get it. Cause you walk out and back in. So it’s not like you can just kind of walk all around. There’s a path like that.

So I was like, Oh crap, I might even be able to get up there. So I walked around to a bunch and the lower level checking all the cool stuff. Which I’m going to come back to in a second. Luckily, it’s still setting up, I was able to go up there. But, when going up from the show field, up there, walking towards the hotel, Ferrari themselves actually set up a bunch of the new cars.

And [00:21:00] they had the new 12 cylinder there. It’s a love hate thing, but this one they had there. Either check out my Instagram or check out the YouTube channel. In this green, it was stunning. It was absolutely stunning. You know, in that car in person, it’s absolutely beautiful. You know, I know there’s a lot of people that are knocking and hating on it, but I said this thing was absolutely stunning.

I thought it looked gorgeous in the screen. Absolutely beautiful. And they have their obligatory, they have the 296, had their, uh, was it the Portofino now, whatever the hell they’re calling, um, the California spider. But this is when they had the F80 and thankfully they took off the cover of it and they were starting to set up.

They’re putting a little barrier around it, everything like that. So they were getting it all make it look pretty. And I gotta say that car is unbelievable in person. The pictures don’t do it justice seeing it online. It’s one of those cars you have to see in person. Oh my Lord, is it gorgeous? I mean, it’s a stunning, this thing is low.

God, it’s low to the ground. I mean, roof heights, can’t imagine it might come up to your hip. So cool. And that thing is wide. That is a very wide car. This thing was absolutely beautiful. Seeing that thing in [00:22:00] person, seeing how all the arrows working on it and everything like that. I would have loved to if they would have started it up, but that didn’t happen.

But it was just so cool to see that. So that was mission accomplished. That’s what I wanted to see was that F80. That thing was awesome. So I gotta tell you, if you get the chance to go see this thing in person somewhere, go see it. You even gotta drive a few hours. Go see it. It is unbelievable. It is a great car.

I know it got a lot, it knocked a lot in all its comparisons. Oh, it’s got the V6. All that. It still has over a thousand horsepower. What is it? Almost twelve hundred horsepower with the V6 and the electric motors and that stuff. Yeah, a V12, an NA V12 and their screaming would have been perfect, but packaging wise and all that.

It works. Just let’s say, it works. Let’s go for example here, the Ford GT. Everyone’s blasted them. How can you put the V6 in there and stuff? That car is still holding it’s own and it’s double what it’s sticker price was. It’s still holding it and that car is unbelievable as well. So, again, don’t knock until you try it.

If you listened to my last podcast episode, we were talking about allocations with the F80. And I think people see it in person because that’s the conversation I had. People want to physically see it. I [00:23:00] know some of them are like, oh, I want to drive it first. Eh, I don’t know if that’s going to happen, but, you know, if you got enough money.

Uh, anything can happen, but that was cool to see. Yep. I checked out the Pearl Sangway. You know, they have one there. You know, obviously it’s been out for a while now. I’m curious to see, I’m not sure when the V8 version of that’s going to come out. So I’m curious to see what happens with that because these have all been the 12 cylinder versions.

Ferrari Palm Beach had one. It was 750, 000 crazy money for an SUV. I mean, things unbelievable. Yes, I’d love to have one. Who wouldn’t? I would love to do some cross country driving and that thing. Just have some fun with it. But seven, three quarters of a million dollars. But I got to sit in it there, which was cool.

That was the first time I got to sit in one. One of these days I want to get someone to let me drive one. I got to get ahold of a client. I know he took delivery one recently, so I need to butter him up. Go see if he’ll let me drive it. But anyways, this is why I went up top. Thank God they’re still setting up.

Cool thing is Santino Ferrucci, yes, the IndyCar driver. One side note, that boy is small and short. If he weighs 140 pounds, I’d be shocked. Muscle around that [00:24:00] IndyCar, thank God they got power steering and this, power that, everything like that, because this guy’s, he’s not a big dude. And again, hey, it’s weight savings.

But anyways, he came tooling in with JR’s, and I don’t know if it’s his inventory or it’s just probably a client’s, but the 599XX. And you want to talk about something that sounds mean? Again, check out my Instagram or check out the YouTube channel. You should hear that thing rumble. Oh my Lord. It was so cool.

So, so cool. Him pulling in again. I’d love to hear that thing at full chat. It would be unbelievable just to hear that thing ripping down the road. I could only imagine. Listen.

Is that cool or what? Now that’s just a short one, there’s a longer one when he’s puttsing in, but like I said, that thing just sounded Unbelievable. They have probably about three quarters of the cars up top. Like I said, Brian Ross had his car there. Jeff Fischer’s 250 GTO was actually outside of where it was, so that was kind of just out in the open.

Because again, they have it set up, you walk out in this putting green, it’s roped off, so that’s how you got to get in. [00:25:00] You got to have your little wristband. You paid 485. Frickin dollars for but then you got your outside air. They have a beautiful courtyard that this is what kills me 500 bucks These people that’s nothing that’s like they probably change it.

That’s nothing to these people. They could care less So again, they’re like holding court and I’m not gonna name names because I know who they are I had the opportunity to meet a couple of these people and they basically turned their nose up because, you know, they think their shit don’t stink. One of those things is like, come on, you know, give it up.

I cannot stand people like that. You are blessed. Here’s the funny thing. You can tell the difference between someone that is self made and created their wealth by busting their ass or someone that won the sperm lottery. Because, it’s just, they’ve grown up in this scenario, it’s just, again, they think their shit don’t stink.

It’s just unbelievable, you know, seeing some of these people. Like, the one person that, again, he’s one of those ones, he thinks he’s high almighty. He’s sitting at this little cluster, one couch thing, and tables around it. You know, he’s sitting there, and all these people around him, you can tell they’re all [00:26:00] just kissing his ass.

And, you know, he just got, I don’t want to say ignoring him, but, it’s like when it’s such an era, you can see someone’s like talking to him, and he’s just looking past them. Cause he’s like, Oh, I can’t be bothered with you. You’re not important enough. No, he’s looking for that important person to talk to because he feels you’re not important enough.

And there’s a ton of these people. They’re peacocking. I get it. It’s a Ferrari event. You should dress nicely. But I mean, you got these people dressed to the nines. Some people like me, I was wearing my t shirt. I’m like, I’m just loud and proud. I was wearing my exotic marketplace hoodie. Cause this is in the morning.

So once I got done checking everything out, I walked around everything, you know, got that stuff after set up. It’s like, well, okay, I got some time because the other cool thing is the parking lot is unbelievable. The parking lot itself could have been a show. So I went back to my hotel for a little bit to relax down like that.

I was like, all right, relax for a couple hours. I did a bunch of posts and whatnot on my social medias. So then I came back after the event started. And it was pretty crowded. So maybe it was sold out. I don’t know if that was a marketing ploy or something like that. It just seemed weird, though, that on Friday night, before I went [00:27:00] out to dinner at six o’clock or whatever it is, but I’m going to go even until there were still tickets.

Then when I came back, no tickets, it seems to be they might just be kind of doing a marketing ploy that says, Oh, no, we’re sold out. So you can say, Oh, we sold out. There weren’t that many people. I mean, it was. It was not sold out. I doubt it highly. So I went back after the event had started and meandered around.

Obviously, I couldn’t go out on the show field. I’ve already seen all the cars, so I really didn’t care. And so I, you know, ran into a few other people, chit chatted, and I checked out, went to auctions. You know, they do the silent auction and stuff. And what’s crazy is I could not believe how many, I don’t want to say timeshare rentals, but like villa.

Luxury villa rentals they had that were up for auction. Like one was the minimum bid was 17, 000, you know? And they had one that was like, uh, in Croatia, another one that was Belize or Bob, I don’t know, they had like five different auction items that were for these villas. Uh, out wherever. I’m unbelievable.

They had a lot of other cool stuff. Some cool posters, everything like that. So a lot of neat stuff. The cheapest thing, I think it was 500 starting opening bid. Be curious to see how all that played [00:28:00] out and what was sold. And I’m sure someone grabbed those villas cause all those people have very deep pockets.

Not all of them, but a good portion of them. But anyways, again, they had some really cool stuff that was up there for your auction items. So that was neat to see. And again, walk around, but kind of going back to how people were dressed. It warmed up. It was in the low seventies by this time. So it’s warm. I have my t shirt on in jeans.

I’m wearing my FerrariMarketplace. com t shirt, wearing it proudly, sporting the brand, going around just checking things out. But what kills me is you have these women that attend. You can tell they’re either husband hunting or doing God knows what. They’re wearing heels. When I mean heels, I mean massive, tall heels.

You’re walking on grass, lady. Give it up. They’re just dressed to the nines. You kind of say, okay, trying to snag yourself the trophy. And then it’s always funny. Someone walking around, especially you see a lady that’s in her 30s or maybe even 40s, but then she’s walking around with some dude in his 70s.

Married, you can tell. You can see they got the wedding rings or anything like that. And no, it’s not his [00:29:00] daughter. You can just tell by how they interact. Just a total gold digger. And he doesn’t care. Trophy wife for him. Unbelievable stuff. It’s always fun to sit down for a little bit and just do a little people watching because you see some really funny stuff and you just laugh going, Oh my God, it’s like she must have to drink a crap load of booze and make him hurry up or something because get a fluffer or something for her husband.

So she’s only got to go in there for the last like 30 seconds and then done with it because it’s unbelievable. But how much money can blind someone and just how much someone’s willing to put up with and tolerate because they want to have that lifestyle. Unbelievable. Out to the parking lot, which is unbelievable out there as well, F 50, F 40, a Bugatti Veyron.

Unbelievable stuff in line of just cars out in the parking lot itself. So I mean, that was cool in its own right. Just checking that stuff out. It was really neat to see because again, they’re just parked there. You can get up close, check things out, look in the windows, everything like that. So it was really, really cool.

I enjoyed it. It was a lot of fun. I checked it all out. Like I said, it’s [00:30:00] something that’s really cool to go to and attend if you can get in for free. But if you’re ever in that area around that time, Cavalino’s going on. Definitely just go there and just, you don’t even have to go in. You can just hang out on the outside cause you can see the field and you can see everything from everywhere, walking around.

You can check things out. You just can’t walk right up on the cars. But like I said, that 250 GTO. Which was a Series 2, one of the three original Series 2 built from the factory, not a Series 1 that got re bodied. You know, that was just out, so I didn’t want to go out and check it out. But it’s definitely worth it to go check it out for your Ferrari fan especially.

You see some really, really unbelievable cars that you rarely ever get to see. Then it’s neat because, one, like hey, if you’re watching the setup, you know, you get to see them actually in motion, moving, hear them running, everything like that. So, which is really cool. But, all in all, like I said, it’s well worth it to go.

I mean, it was, it was a good time. Me and Dave had a really good time. I was hanging out with Mr. Beaty from Slot Mods. We enjoyed ourselves thoroughly. A few days, you know, we were down there. He said we hit up Jeff Fisher’s invite only party, which was really cool. You got to check out because, again, his collection is [00:31:00] unbelievable.

He stores it in this old building that used to be a cigar factory. Really cool stuff, but Like I said, it’s definitely worth the trip if you’re in that area. Uh, obviously in years past, the weather’s been a lot better. So there’s a lot more activity days leading up and that’s where did they do on Friday?

They do a, uh, a drive or rally wherever it goes. That’s really cool to see just the line of cars going. They didn’t quite have as so many this year because of the fact of the weather. Some people held back, but that’s cool to see as well because you know, just seeing them, these people driving their cars is really cool.

Especially the older stuff. You get the stuff from the sixties and seventies. It’s just really cool to see, but that’s kind of my summary on Cavalino. Gorgeous cars, pretentious people, and hey, the sun came out, so it was a beautiful day. So it all in all, it came out well. I’m going to wrap it up here. I really appreciate you listening.

The next episode, I want to get into talking about These YouTubers and clickbait and calling out and saying, Oh, this far is that this is, I mean, I’m not going to call people out, but you probably will figure out who I’m talking about, but there’s a bunch out there that make these statements with [00:32:00] their thumbnail or whatever, or at least even in the video itself and talking, which is just totally, totally false and a blatant lie.

I want to get into that because that really chafes my ass. And the problem is, yeah. A lot of people fall for it and they believe it. So they drink that juice. So they start arguing the fact, no, no, it was like, no, we’re going to get in that in the next episode. And then, like I said, stay tuned. So hopefully in the next few weeks, we’ll have the gentleman from the gentleman’s garage.

So hopefully I can connect with him and get him on. We’re going to do that one up. We’ll have Eric on board as our moderator. We’re going to actually, uh, not only record that, we’re going to do some video with that as well. Recording it and we’ll post it up on the channel as well. So, remember guys, check out the website, thefiremarketplace.

com, hit up the exotic car marketplace. com, check out gtmotorsports. org, and check out themotoringpodcast. net. Check those all out. We got a lot of cool stuff that’s happening, man. 2025, we’re going to blow it up, so stay tuned. Great stuff coming. See you on the flip side.[00:33:00]

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