Raymond 0 Posted November 16, 2009 Ferrari F50 "Sultan of Brunei"Ferrari FX "Sultan of Brunei" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Raymond 0 Posted November 16, 2009 just found out the answers The Sultan's secret 1995 Ferrari FXRichard Owen of Supercars.net recently visited the Marconi Museum in Tustin, California and discovered one of its hidden gems, a Sultan of Brunei custom Ferrari FX. Richard explains the history of this technological tour de force and gives us some insight into the bizarre story of the Sultan and his massive collection of one-offs, custom-builts, exotics and supercars that numbered in the thousands. The whole collection was estimated to have cost some $28 billion. This particular jewel started life as a Ferrari 512M but was so extensively modified that the new FX nomenclature was used. And being the Sultan, this is just number four of seven nearly identical models he had commissioned. Pininfarina redesigned the body and the Williams F1 crew was tabbed to do some mechanical tweaking. The cars started life at Pininfarina where the new aluminum and carbon fiber bodies were mated to a 512M platform. The Sultan's brother, Prince Jefri, then took the car to Williams where it was fitted with a sequential gearbox similar to their Formula 1 unit. But this car never finished the cycle. The Sultan's buying days had come to an abrupt halt while the car was still at Williams and that's where Dick Marconi came in. The sole dark blue FX in the bunch, it was purchased by Herbalife founder, ex-boxer and sometime racer, Dick Marconi, for his Southern California museum. And there it sits for anyone to see Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Raymond 0 Posted November 16, 2009 more of the sultan's crazy custom mades Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Yao 0 Posted November 16, 2009 Raymond wrote: This looks like the offspring of a Rolls and a Nissan Z. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sinclair 0 Posted November 16, 2009 Yao wrote:This looks like the offspring of a Rolls and a Nissan Z. Ya, my thoughts too! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alfagta 0 Posted November 17, 2009 if i rich like him,i buy over hw company...hehe Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chee keng hong 0 Posted November 17, 2009 Nice 1/1 collections!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ericmaxman 0 Posted November 17, 2009 w00t!!!!!!!!!!! an estate Ferrari??? zomfg!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mushr00m 0 Posted November 17, 2009 the estate ferrari... probably for the chef to go pasar... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chee keng hong 0 Posted November 17, 2009 mushr00m wrote:the estate ferrari... probably for the chef to go pasar... Nice one...mushr00m... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jhc7598 0 Posted November 17, 2009 massive and superb collections.. he is collecting cars as we collectiong HWs, huhu. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fadli85 0 Posted November 17, 2009 Love the estate Modifacato 456M, also, the Sultan have a peculiar taste of design... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
titaniumboss 0 Posted November 17, 2009 kereta potong ni... sure cannot lepas JPJ liao if come to Malaysia... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hokuan 0 Posted November 17, 2009 wow...even real car can customize like that.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
