{"id":500321,"date":"2023-03-22T18:05:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T01:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/?p=500321"},"modified":"2024-03-07T09:04:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T09:04:22","slug":"poor-mans-daytona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/poor-mans-daytona\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor Man\u2019s Daytona"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I think I\u2019ve well established, in this space, my bona fides as an old school Ferrari snob. I grew up around the Ferrari Owner\u2019s Club in the 1970s, so I have a reasonably warped sense of what a Ferrari is and isn\u2019t. Part of my \u201cwarpage\u201d, if you will, was being taken on several hot laps, at Laguna Seca \u2014at a dangerously impressionable age \u2014 in a 365 GTB\/4 \u201cDaytona\u201d. As a prepubescent boy, that shit will mess you up for life.<\/p>\n

So with that said, I certainly understand why the collector car world goes gaga over the Daytona. It\u2019s really one of the last, and arguably greatest, \u201cEnzo-era\u201d Ferrari V-12 road cars. And, as such, it has a price tag that lives up to the hype\u2014$1.3 million for a concours standard GTB. But what if I told you there was an alternative, a \u201cpoor man\u2019s\u201d alternative, that has been all but forgotten by the collector cognoscenti and provides the same basic mechanicals, in a\u2026 prepare to gasp\u2026 more comfortable and better-looking package\u2026 for a fraction of the price?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n