Anthony Stella is such a good, humane guy. I’ve visited Gullwing several times over the years and he’s always gracious and down to earth. He looked through his office to find some little gift for my autistic son and apologized that he ran out of the Gullwing baseball caps they used to have. He did come across Gullwing pens and my son was very happy to have a genuine Gullwing souvenir. Thank you, Anthony Stella.
I've known Anthony for many years and probably met him a week into his new job at Gullwing. He's grown into the job well, and is a perfect foil to his boss Peter Kumar. Anthony is actually a car guy which seems obvious, but the business of selling cars in bulk like Gullwing can beat that passion out of you. Anthony has managed to keep the passion lit despite the business of selling broken, rusty, dreams!
We are getting closer to getting my cousins 275 GTS on the road. Just waiting on the interior now. When you first get in the car to drive, you flash Gullwong Motorcars
I like the Gullwing mantra: "It is what it is...." They don't sell cars - they offer access, the buyer decides if the issues are worth the headache or not.
Love this stuff Tom, great presentation and camera work. No pointless hyperbole just a very knowledgeable, experienced man on a mission. Would love to spend some time at Gullwing's.
I've spent my life reading all the usual clichés in magazines and vidoes. Very rarely are they written or said from someone who actually works on cars, so I have a very different perspective. Thanks for noticing!
Impressive work on the PPI! Really got in there to uncover any stories. Plus to not be pressured by onlookers, swayed by shinny paint, and resilient to Italian charm truly shows your expertise. Know who I am calling if I fall in love with a vintage Ferrari... Thanks for bringing us along!
I've been doing these at Gullwing for a while now, so they are used to leaving me alone. I always make sure I leave the cars exactly as I found them. Thanks for watching.
Thanks for the Ferrari review! That chassis was exceptionally clean!!! Im impressed! Hope your client grabs it. BTW.... it was also cool to observe the Gullwing Operation. I see the adds, but this was a first for me. The dash pad and interior work was a 4 out of 10 for me. They could have done much better. Great value for a great driver! Thanks again Tommy! Years ago i would judge sports cars at the Southbury Training School Car shows. I looked under a ton of Jags, TR's , Healeys and Ferraris. This brings back lots of memories. I had VDUBS and Sprites back then. About 5 of each...
@@marcusbonello3106 I tell anyone who hires me for a PPI that I will try my best to assess a car but I don’t have x-Ray vision, nor a crystal ball to look into the future. These are old cars that could have things hiding beneath the surface. My job is to take my experience and apply it to the car I’m inspecting backed by the data I collect and see. It takes about 3-4 hours to do a thorough job, but that depends on how willing the seller is going to allow me to inspect. Many shops won’t do PPIs due to liability, but as long as the buyer knows this is just an opinion based on fact I think I can help with the process.
The paint meter is not perfect and cannot see beyond it's limits, so on my meter, it can only see up to about 35 mils, so the non metallic stuff (paint, primer, clear coat, and filler) can be an inch thick from 35 mils and beyond. I have to understand where and why filler is used, and if it's necessary or just a sign of bad bodywork.
I wondered what happened to John Saxon after he stopped acting, he’s now a salesman for Gullwing Motors 😉. You gotta be over 50 years old to get that joke, lol. Beautiful car, great video.
Right now I have three recommendations. Fix the window, fix the fuel lines, and see what can be done with the door, but I don't have much faith in getting the door to fit much better. Keep watching!
@@stevenrobertson4190 you are correct. The 275GTS I restored several years ago was an early one so this CV joint car was the first one I saw in the wild! I hear Rolhofs makes an update so I wasn’t sure which on this was! Thanks for clarifying.
The newer Ferraris scare me more. A well sorted Vintage Ferrari doesn't cost that much. They require you to drive them regularly to keep from having to fix them after sitting, but that's not a bad thing!
Really interesting to see your expert inspection and finding all the filler ... loved your stress-testing comment on those roads ... so you recommend paying the $1,095,000 sticker price?
There actually wasn't a lot of filler, only small spots that exceeded 0.8 millimeters. I felt it was a good car and knew that Gullwing wouldn't come down much, but we managed to buy it for a little less.
IMHO this car is a buy, a no brainer for the spider enthusiast and it's an original Ferrari , not a cut car. It's elegance personified with total Italian flair.
It's just a shame they've turned into 7 figure cars. I remember inspecting one about 20 years ago selling for $160K. It had a little rust forming in the rockers, and I told my client to pass on the car. Who knew?!
30 or 40 years ago, Ferrari shops (Even dealerships) had engines they would exchange so you could get your car back quicker. They even restamped the replacement engines to match the chassis as a "value add," often without the owner knowing!
@@oilman930 great! I’m navigating a Vintage Ferrari on the streets of Queens, so I’m doing well. Now I have to fix a shoulder…growing old sucks! Thanks for asking.
Is it just me, or do the hard lines running down the middle of the car just floating (line not fastened to the frame)? Wonder those lines may collapse (over time). Unsure if they were brake lines or for the clutch (hydraulic line)? Not familiar with these cars, but curious based on your inspection. Thank you for sharing!
The brake and fuel lines run along the frame and are fastened with clips that are screwed to the frame. The other lines you see hanging down are the parking brake cable which is also held in place with clips.
I like Gullwing Motors . The only thing I don't get is they seem to only publish a handful of pictures of the cars on their website. I guess they were frightened by a photographer as children. Chuckle.
They're pretty straightforward with what they offer, but I was told their rule was to buy a car every day for their inventory, which means they try to sell at least one car a day out of their inventory. You can imagine the amount of pictures that could amount to if they took more!
That was exactly my thought. The car drove beautifully and would be the star at almost any rally in the States, like Rally to the Sun, Cal Mille, NE 1000, etc. And no one is going to care the engine number doesn't match!
I could be wrong. Underbody and bottom of bumpers looks like salt damage. The peeling rust proofing. Some crazy shit drove that in the snow? N.E. united states salty winter roads.
That one patch of undercoating that was peeling was the only place, and it was solid underneath. Back in the day, these were regular cars (albeit expensive), and used as such, so I wouldn't be surprised if it saw some snow and salt!
@@tomyangnet i live in minnesota. Im 54 saw alot of 60's-70's really cool cars die young because they were daily drivers here. That frickn salts calimed alot of victims. Weekends on my street in 1976 was like going to a car show today with all the neighbors cars parked in their driveways and people visiting.
@@Alex-kp2db what’s worse is the cost of fixing rust damage is rarely worth fixing except for the higher value cars, so many of them may just fade away back to dust!
what's a ferrari 275 doing in queens of all god damn places, that's like having a cheetah in a cage, atleast get it to upper new york or some place where the roads are nice as atleast where i live if you get far enough from the towns the roads are nice and the scenery can be good, hence why their was a daytona spider driving around, on weirdly the greyest day ever and a real one too, the back of the boot was correct, and the proportions lined up properly, amazing how guiletta spider like it looked really, and small like you dont think its that small from the pictures, it really was a proper little boat as the name barchetta kinda implied on the earlier ones magnesum wheels though, of all things, he buys a black daytona spider with a black interior, and doesnt even put the show stoppers on it
What a contrast in NY from Queens to an hour or two north of the city. My brain's clock speed has to rise just so I can navigate the traffic the closer I get to The City!
@@tomyangnet ah so you know lol as theirs a car group in manhatten that drives around all these really expensive top of the line machines from a few years ago, and I couldnt think of a worse place to keep a gt40 replica with how bad the roads are also would you believe that when it comes to tow trucks if anything goes wrong their only authorized to have set locations they can tow in based on how much they paid the city, like that is some capone crap, so if anything goes wrong they rip you off and hard with that crap,
@ it’s actually deals with the bridge and tunnel authority or one of those entities. There are certain tow trucks authorized to tow a car off certain roads. If there’s a “Parkway” in the name, it probably has a contract. That’s what “welcome to NY” actually means!
Are´nt you afraid the car could become kidnapped by a gang there in that hood during test drive? Here in Berlin they forced a guy out of his Mercedes 300SL Gullwing and stole the car.
Astoria is a light industrial area with a/c, plumbing, auto repair, lighting and so on, it is grubby looking but by no means a dangerous place. These are not retail stores, they don’t wash the sidewalks and make it pretty. If you’re a commercial construction contractor and are purchasing 5,000 brackets to hang ductwork you don’t care if the shop doesn’t look like a suburban mall. But crime is not an issue, congestion and high rent and taxes are.
I think a Vintage Ferrari is harder to "fence" than perhaps a BMW or modern Mercedes in the States. In Europe, where they can be easily transported East and sold on the black market where the buyers don't care about resale. Stolen cars in the States are shipped to our southern neighbors, or in containers to Eastern Europe or Asia. That being said, people have to know what they're looking at. NYC does not have a lot of car aficionados, so besides the badge, it could be worth half a million, or 20 million. Most people on the street wouldn't know. Astoria is not as dangerous as you would think, especially today. street crime is not as organized as it seems like it is in Europe for Vintage cars. I've heard of cars stolen during Monterey Week in CA, but not on a random day on the streets in Queens. It's more dangerous getting hit by a gypsy cab driver trying to get to the Airport!
@allareasindex7984 30 years ago, it might have been a little more sketchy, but Astoria was probably safer than other neighborhoods back then. Most people in NYC are not "car people" so they might not know what they're looking at anyway!
Anthony Stella is such a good, humane guy. I’ve visited Gullwing several times over the years and he’s always gracious and down to earth. He looked through his office to find some little gift for my autistic son and apologized that he ran out of the Gullwing baseball caps they used to have. He did come across Gullwing pens and my son was very happy to have a genuine Gullwing souvenir. Thank you, Anthony Stella.
I've known Anthony for many years and probably met him a week into his new job at Gullwing. He's grown into the job well, and is a perfect foil to his boss Peter Kumar. Anthony is actually a car guy which seems obvious, but the business of selling cars in bulk like Gullwing can beat that passion out of you. Anthony has managed to keep the passion lit despite the business of selling broken, rusty, dreams!
We are getting closer to getting my cousins 275 GTS on the road. Just waiting on the interior now. When you first get in the car to drive, you flash Gullwong Motorcars
Maybe when I come out to Monterey in 2025, I can get to see the car back on the road!
I like the Gullwing mantra: "It is what it is...." They don't sell cars - they offer access, the buyer decides if the issues are worth the headache or not.
They don't try to hide anything and are pretty transparent. The good stuff is often sold before it hits their website.
@@tomyangnet How do folks "find-out" the good stuff from Gullwing? Is there a mailing-list or something?
@@MichaelJames-lz7ni There is a mailing list.
We don't see that much vintage convertible Ferraris. Thank you for the little ride and this complete inspection of a nice car
With only 200 Ferrari 275GTSs made, it's a rare car to anyone. I've only worked on 3 of them in my career.
Love this stuff Tom, great presentation and camera work. No pointless hyperbole just a very knowledgeable, experienced man on a mission. Would love to spend some time at Gullwing's.
I've spent my life reading all the usual clichés in magazines and vidoes. Very rarely are they written or said from someone who actually works on cars, so I have a very different perspective. Thanks for noticing!
Impressive work on the PPI! Really got in there to uncover any stories. Plus to not be pressured by onlookers, swayed by shinny paint, and resilient to Italian charm truly shows your expertise. Know who I am calling if I fall in love with a vintage Ferrari... Thanks for bringing us along!
I've been doing these at Gullwing for a while now, so they are used to leaving me alone. I always make sure I leave the cars exactly as I found them. Thanks for watching.
Thanks for the Ferrari review! That chassis was exceptionally clean!!! Im impressed! Hope your client grabs it. BTW.... it was also cool to observe the Gullwing Operation. I see the adds, but this was a first for me. The dash pad and interior work was a 4 out of 10 for me. They could have done much better.
Great value for a great driver!
Thanks again Tommy!
Years ago i would judge sports cars at the Southbury Training School Car shows. I looked under a ton of Jags, TR's , Healeys and Ferraris. This brings back lots of memories. I had VDUBS and Sprites back then. About 5 of each...
The few cosmetic details are easy to fix, it's the mechanicals that can get expensive. We bought the car.
@@tomyangnet great! Hope we will get a video on it soon.
Great video and you are a great guy for taking so much gime to respond to peoples comments. Thank hih for being a great member in the car community
Thank you for your kind words. Thoughtful comments deserve the same in return!
Thanks for this Tom. A lesson in vintage Ferrari PPI ;-)
@@marcusbonello3106 I tell anyone who hires me for a PPI that I will try my best to assess a car but I don’t have x-Ray vision, nor a crystal ball to look into the future. These are old cars that could have things hiding beneath the surface. My job is to take my experience and apply it to the car I’m inspecting backed by the data I collect and see. It takes about 3-4 hours to do a thorough job, but that depends on how willing the seller is going to allow me to inspect. Many shops won’t do PPIs due to liability, but as long as the buyer knows this is just an opinion based on fact I think I can help with the process.
Thanks for the video experience. When the car accelerated it sounded nice and it seemed to pull pretty good. I hope the new owner enjoys it.
I liked the car. The compression numbers seemed to agree with the road test!
Great video! Tom you are always such a great wealth of knowledge!
Thanks for the kind words of support!
Great video beautiful ferrari
It was a nice one!
Great stuff. Thanks!
You're welcome. Excited to share my find at Gullwing!
Excellent video. Thanks for your efforts.
@@brianz426 you’re welcome!
I really like the 275GTS this one isn’t too bad for Gullwing.
This one was probably one of the better ones. I did a ground up restoration on one a few years ago, so I'm pretty familiar with the model!
@@tomyangnet Tom, didn't some of these have a wide passenger seat?
The paint meter is fascinating as a guide to the car's repair history.
The paint meter is not perfect and cannot see beyond it's limits, so on my meter, it can only see up to about 35 mils, so the non metallic stuff (paint, primer, clear coat, and filler) can be an inch thick from 35 mils and beyond. I have to understand where and why filler is used, and if it's necessary or just a sign of bad bodywork.
Awesome!
yes!
Great vid!
thanks!
I wondered what happened to John Saxon after he stopped acting, he’s now a salesman for Gullwing Motors 😉. You gotta be over 50 years old to get that joke, lol. Beautiful car, great video.
I'm sure Anthony will have to google it!
@ Lol, agree 😄👍🏼
GOOD VIDEO!!!
Thanks!
I like the "Used" sticker on the windshield.
They are ultimately a Used Car Dealer!
Hope you will do a follow up video or 2 on the corrections you have recommended, especially the door alignment issue.
Right now I have three recommendations. Fix the window, fix the fuel lines, and see what can be done with the door, but I don't have much faith in getting the door to fit much better. Keep watching!
@tomyangnet The later 275 GTS had the interim drive shaft with CV joints as original.
@@stevenrobertson4190 you are correct. The 275GTS I restored several years ago was an early one so this CV joint car was the first one I saw in the wild! I hear Rolhofs makes an update so I wasn’t sure which on this was! Thanks for clarifying.
Great vid! I might be able to afford the car but the maintenance scares me to death!
The newer Ferraris scare me more. A well sorted Vintage Ferrari doesn't cost that much. They require you to drive them regularly to keep from having to fix them after sitting, but that's not a bad thing!
If you can afford a seven figure vintage Ferrari, the relative maintenance cost isn't bad (no different than a six figure vintage Ferrari).
Despite it's flaws it seems super solid
My lists of needs are to fix the window, replace the soft fuel lines, and It'll be good to go!
impressive compression numbers
@@power2me1 these are usually 8.5:1 compression engines, so yes.
@@tomyangnet what kind of compression numbers would you hope to see on an '81 512 BB?
@ I don’t believe much more. 150-160s? Depends on age and mileage obviously.
Really interesting to see your expert inspection and finding all the filler ... loved your stress-testing comment on those roads ... so you recommend paying the $1,095,000 sticker price?
There actually wasn't a lot of filler, only small spots that exceeded 0.8 millimeters. I felt it was a good car and knew that Gullwing wouldn't come down much, but we managed to buy it for a little less.
IMHO this car is a buy, a no brainer for the spider enthusiast and it's an original Ferrari , not a cut car. It's elegance personified with total Italian flair.
It's just a shame they've turned into 7 figure cars. I remember inspecting one about 20 years ago selling for $160K. It had a little rust forming in the rockers, and I told my client to pass on the car. Who knew?!
That is a mighty fine automobile, Yes sir, Mighty fine indeed #Aztec73
I totally agree. I gave it a thumbs up in my PPI.
@tomyangnet I iespecially like the color , It is impressive .
@@Aztec73 to be a stickler, it’s got a little too much metallic, but still looks good!
@tomyangnet Maybe I would think the same thing, After all you did get a much better look than I did.
Wow a pretty decent car from Gullwing Motor Cars, miracles DO happen. If the original engine blew up 30 years ago that's life 😁
30 or 40 years ago, Ferrari shops (Even dealerships) had engines they would exchange so you could get your car back quicker. They even restamped the replacement engines to match the chassis as a "value add," often without the owner knowing!
@@tomyangnet wow. Won’t Ferrari build you a new motor with the proper numbers for a
“Slight” fee?
@ they will happily build you a new engine and stamp it with their special stamp. The cost is eye watering!
@@tomyangnet so is the cost of a belt service at a dealership
@@vizsla54
Timing chains baby !!
Did you check the trunk for condition and completeness of the tool roll and spares? The sun visors may have been in there too.
@@CJinSD1 yup. Checked the trunk. No tool roll. I suspect the previous owner withheld it as an auction description said it had a tool roll.
How is your recovery going from hip replacement surgery?
@@oilman930 great! I’m navigating a Vintage Ferrari on the streets of Queens, so I’m doing well. Now I have to fix a shoulder…growing old sucks! Thanks for asking.
No one does these Ferrari videos as well as you do
Thanks for the kind words. I'm always honing the way I'm shooting and recording the audio on these videos. Thanks for noticing!
@ I like how you’re willing to go back and correct yourself. Not many do that.
GREAT sounding engine, based on what you captured during the test drive portion video! How was it in-person?
It had a great sound. I tried my best to reflect it in the audio I recorded.
@@tomyangnet Your former life is an asset to the cause - you did better giving a sense of it than most youtube videos I've seen!
Is it just me, or do the hard lines running down the middle of the car just floating (line not fastened to the frame)? Wonder those lines may collapse (over time). Unsure if they were brake lines or for the clutch (hydraulic line)? Not familiar with these cars, but curious based on your inspection. Thank you for sharing!
The brake and fuel lines run along the frame and are fastened with clips that are screwed to the frame. The other lines you see hanging down are the parking brake cable which is also held in place with clips.
I like Gullwing Motors . The only thing I don't get is they seem to only publish a handful of pictures of the cars on their website. I guess they were frightened
by a photographer as children. Chuckle.
They're pretty straightforward with what they offer, but I was told their rule was to buy a car every day for their inventory, which means they try to sell at least one car a day out of their inventory. You can imagine the amount of pictures that could amount to if they took more!
Beautiful car. Is it perfect? Nope. But if I was in the market, it'd be perfect... I'm gonna drive and use it, anyhow, don't need a show queen!
That was exactly my thought. The car drove beautifully and would be the star at almost any rally in the States, like Rally to the Sun, Cal Mille, NE 1000, etc. And no one is going to care the engine number doesn't match!
I could be wrong. Underbody and bottom of bumpers looks like salt damage. The peeling rust proofing. Some crazy shit drove that in the snow? N.E. united states salty winter roads.
That one patch of undercoating that was peeling was the only place, and it was solid underneath. Back in the day, these were regular cars (albeit expensive), and used as such, so I wouldn't be surprised if it saw some snow and salt!
@@tomyangnet i live in minnesota. Im 54 saw alot of 60's-70's really cool cars die young because they were daily drivers here. That frickn salts calimed alot of victims. Weekends on my street in 1976 was like going to a car show today with all the neighbors cars parked in their driveways and people visiting.
@@Alex-kp2db what’s worse is the cost of fixing rust damage is rarely worth fixing except for the higher value cars, so many of them may just fade away back to dust!
what's a ferrari 275 doing in queens of all god damn places, that's like having a cheetah in a cage, atleast get it to upper new york or some place where the roads are nice
as atleast where i live if you get far enough from the towns the roads are nice and the scenery can be good, hence why their was a daytona spider driving around, on weirdly the greyest day ever
and a real one too, the back of the boot was correct, and the proportions lined up properly, amazing how guiletta spider like it looked really, and small
like you dont think its that small from the pictures, it really was a proper little boat as the name barchetta kinda implied on the earlier ones
magnesum wheels though, of all things, he buys a black daytona spider with a black interior, and doesnt even put the show stoppers on it
What a contrast in NY from Queens to an hour or two north of the city. My brain's clock speed has to rise just so I can navigate the traffic the closer I get to The City!
@@tomyangnet ah so you know lol as theirs a car group in manhatten that drives around all these really expensive top of the line machines from a few years ago, and I couldnt think of a worse place to keep a gt40 replica with how bad the roads are
also would you believe that when it comes to tow trucks if anything goes wrong their only authorized to have set locations they can tow in based on how much they paid the city,
like that is some capone crap, so if anything goes wrong they rip you off and hard with that crap,
@ it’s actually deals with the bridge and tunnel authority or one of those entities. There are certain tow trucks authorized to tow a car off certain roads. If there’s a “Parkway” in the name, it probably has a contract. That’s what “welcome to NY” actually means!
Are´nt you afraid the car could become kidnapped by a gang there in that hood during test drive? Here in Berlin they forced a guy out of his Mercedes 300SL Gullwing and stole the car.
Astoria is a light industrial area with a/c, plumbing, auto repair, lighting and so on, it is grubby looking but by no means a dangerous place. These are not retail stores, they don’t wash the sidewalks and make it pretty. If you’re a commercial construction contractor and are purchasing 5,000 brackets to hang ductwork you don’t care if the shop doesn’t look like a suburban mall. But crime is not an issue, congestion and high rent and taxes are.
I think a Vintage Ferrari is harder to "fence" than perhaps a BMW or modern Mercedes in the States. In Europe, where they can be easily transported East and sold on the black market where the buyers don't care about resale. Stolen cars in the States are shipped to our southern neighbors, or in containers to Eastern Europe or Asia.
That being said, people have to know what they're looking at. NYC does not have a lot of car aficionados, so besides the badge, it could be worth half a million, or 20 million. Most people on the street wouldn't know.
Astoria is not as dangerous as you would think, especially today. street crime is not as organized as it seems like it is in Europe for Vintage cars. I've heard of cars stolen during Monterey Week in CA, but not on a random day on the streets in Queens. It's more dangerous getting hit by a gypsy cab driver trying to get to the Airport!
@allareasindex7984 30 years ago, it might have been a little more sketchy, but Astoria was probably safer than other neighborhoods back then. Most people in NYC are not "car people" so they might not know what they're looking at anyway!
Most nyc car crooks don't know how to drive manual
Next time, check the date on the tires FIRST, please...😮
At more than $600 bucks a piece it's good to know!
Have a look in the mirror