We have seen the car various times previously at some occasion since very early 2006. This car has been implanted with a V12 Testarossa engine! The change from stock seats to Sparco Sprint V-racing seats coming from a Porsche GT3 looks like a minor upgrade compared to the enigne.
The change of the engine was done by a company called Dirk Küster Fahrzeugtechnik from Düsseldorf. When being for sale at Movendi's at Meilenwerk in Düsseldorf in July of 2007 with an asking price of 66,500 EUR the car had covered 60,000 kms. The window sticker gave the information, that the conversion ate up the enormous amount of 700,000 DM! Beside the engine, a gearbox, the electronics and axles of a Testarossa have been added as well. The car looks much wider than a standard F355 and the engine hood has received a lift to the cooling fins to make the engine fit.
The car was not sold earlier than October of that year to be found again with a used car dealer, called B7 Automobile in Gevelsberg. The mileage than was -strangely enough- given with 25,026 kms. The asking price then was just reduced from 66,980 EUR to 59,500 EUR when spotted.
Today, the car is offered for 39.990 EUR with 85.000 kms on the odo.
We have a Slide Show for you with some pictures from our spot in 2007.
http://www.f-register.com/community/event-reports/slideshow