Thanks Ed, really loved sharing this story. The Ratarossa is pure fun, driving it or turning up to Ferrari events in it and seeing the shocked reactions of Ferrari purists is hilarious. Despite that I did actually save this Testarossa from its otherwise destination with the scrap heap, it’s now back in the road where it belongs …. And it sounds fantastic !!!

I love everything about this project!

I’ve been following Ratarossa for a few years and it still amazes me what he has achieved on this build and many others.

The kit car mold story fits with the primer body, having it in primer would keep the mold material from sticking and you don't have to worry about paint scratches aswell.

There's something very special about having an exclusive, desirable car that looks like you don't give a shit about it.

I love it! Roof delete by Anheuser Busch. Sounds like you just can’t miss. LoL

the only reason I can think it was on a lambo site rather than one for ferraris, is that it was making ferrari owners cry so it kept getting removed

I just love that this car gives the big middle finger to the Ferrari corporate snobs

Would you drive a rat rod supercar?

In the 80 's. I had the pleasure LOL of fixing not one but 2 Testarosa roadster conversions. One was Koenlgg's personal supercharged/turbo roadster. The blue car. The problem they had was chassis flex obviously. I fabricated polished stainless steel side pods just like the F40 has in carbon fiber on their car. This was pre-F40 80's when I did this. The top of the tubing was polished and the stressed skin sides were covered in matching leather of the interior color. Actually looked factory installed when completed. When completed 0 flex mission accomplished.

Ratarossa’s videos are class. Takes that Ferrari snobbery and throws it into the sea. Love it 👍👍👍

I don't love it, but I can't hate it. Also, anytime anyone mods a Ferrari it's a good thing, because it pisses of the prissy princesses in Marenello.

Sir, I and Ray were the original owners of, and the modifiers of the Testarossa. (we paid $35k for the bits) We later sold it to your buyer D__ Good___. Here is the story: Ray and I bought it from a scavenger of all things Ferrari and brought all of the individual bits to the Los Angeles area to turn it into the nicest convertible there would be. We were into building one-off cars for shows... The chassis came from a car that suffered a fire, the body panels came from a car that was completely rolled (every body panel was wrinkled), the interior came from something unknown, and the engine came from a car that replaced it with a Koenigsegg engine (thus we were skeptical if this engine ran.) It was loosely assembled but we stripped it and I proceeded to weld shear panels in between each of the A-Pilar, rocker, B-pilar and rear fire wall before we cut the roof. The reason for the overkill was to avoid the New Port Beach Straman guys method of welding a 1x3" bar across the middle of the door jambs and thus not have a bar to step over. We then integrated a Mercedes Benz 190 automated top (Dan sold it before you) completely functioning (raise the bonnet, extend the top, lower the bonnet...). The engine was rebuilt by a Los A Ferrari mechanic in the off hours for Dan. Every single valve was bent and thus in the 1990's at $345 each that was a tough cost, so we as a favor had then custom made by a friend at his machine shop. Thus, the engine was working as you say. The plan for the car was to be the best Ferrari Testarossa Convertible in the world, but we both had moved on to other personal projects and it was sold to Dan. I tried to buy the car back from him just one year before you bought it, but the price to me was not even remotely as low as you stated, it was north of 75k. Such is life, and I am still glad to see it driving, and though I surely wished I could have finished the proper way. All the best to you and yours. Oh, and it was never ever part of a mold splashing event, seriously wasn't. Ray had a fiberglass business, but that was never ever the intent. I was just a Ferrari wana-be on an engineering budget. Carl Guichard, US

"Be built a rad-rod Ferrari in his garage". Ed must've been in a hurry to start the Goldrush rally when writing the video title 🤣

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="103">1:43</a> - Odd seeing an Arizona license plate on a car in the UK... Threw me for a loop there.

Been following Scott's channel for a while now. I think he's on the ball, the Ratarossa is fine as it is. It's becoming a legend. Wouldn't take much to make it into a queen but then it may become, just another car.

There's something to be said about taking a cheaply purchased super car and ratting it out. No need to worry about scratching it or putting miles on it. Just enjoy. I think the key to cars like this is to get the sound right with the proper exhaust and the feeling of the handling and the gated manual transmission.

That outrun outro is frikken awesome!

The world needs more of guys like Scott. Really humble and down to earth bloke with a great taste in cars!

LMAO that second he mentions playing the OutRun game and the Testarossa in that game, because it’s the first thing I thought of when I saw the car too 😂🤙

A project Ferrari that actually runs. Take that ,tavarsh.

I found this guy years ago and it was so fun to watch his builds

You know I can't say I've ever watched one of your videos and didn't enjoy it. Thank you for the Amazing content.

The blowing kiss is totally out of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

This just became one of my favourite stories from your channel. I want to have a scotch with this guy!

$16,000 was asteal. Last decent flat 12 ferrari engine dropout complete setup i saw sold for $24k alone

been watching Scotts channel for a long time and its always a blast to se what he does

Neat to finally hear this story! I’ve been curious about this car for some time.

Hopefully the BBI story is coming next.

He was very generous with his time helping Samcrac sort out his 360. Nice guy.

Love this guy! Been watching him for years.

BLASPHEMY!!! Night Rider was WAY cooler than Miami Vice and we all know it! ^o^

That looks better today than Ratta-Johnson.

I'm surprised Ferrari doesn't make him paint it.

Did they save the roof from the car? I really would love to see it painted a dark red metallic. Palm Springs fall of 1988 I spent about 8 days there and I saw the most beautiful car I’ve ever seen in my life a dark red metallic Testarossa.

Love it. Great story mate.

Love how he down low snubbed the snobs at Ferrari. Love this. Thank you

And I love the 928 because of Chase HQ.

Love car storyes , love cars with history , cars like yours !

Scott has a certain "calmness" about him. If I had to work on a Testarossa or 512BB, I would be freakin' out!

Definitely one of my favorite projects!

If this dude gets a cease and desist from Ferrari I say we riot! LOL

That car is really well sorted if the truth be known - there was box iron welded in to the door openings to brace the bodyshell to take out the flex !! Ive been watching Scott for the last few years and he knows his stuff and a really down to earth chap !!

Glad to finally get the story an what a cool car thanks guys

That's cool, and I love that he went forward with making it run and drive again. What we really want is someone who recreated the original Miami Vice car. The real Ferrari helped to ruin the show and the suspense of belief. Yeah, let's put the star in a car where you can't see him in Miami anymore - great idea, Ferrari.

And i subscribed Ratarossa channel in the 1st video he had 11 or 12 subscribers lol. Never thought will be like this

I love Scott and his channel

Perfect car for the project!

Cutting the roof off shows what a weird car it is. It just looks off. Nice to keep it as original as possible. Seems like a cool dude.

So rad thanx for this one 👍🏻😎

It would be funny to do a 30 sec. clip with a "down and out" Sonny Crockett look-a-like getting into the ratarossa and driving off 😉

Scott is the man.✌🏻🇺🇸

Everyone loves the car because it's loved and driven, unlike so many other garage queens.

I always relate the Ferrari testerosa to that game outrun. I used to play at Lampost Pizza in PV, California 🏁

Never seen garages so small.

Idk how I missed it but I love this guy.

Actually, Scott, the Testarossa made it's appearance in season 3. (technically last episode of season 2, but then it was still black)

Think it would look cool if the pop ups were red too

I love this story!

I’m starting to worry about giving my first vin

This guy is the coolest Brit since John Cleese.

Have people forgotten about the Straman Testarossa conversions? These were done in California and featured a working convertible roof.

It isnt stanced, so a better build than many.

didn't knew the story behind the rattarossa, shame the roof was lost

Goddamn I love VinWiki. Such great stories!

1or2 coats of clearcoating will looks awesome.

Love Scott's channel. He is so relatable and down to earth.

Is this guy related to trek trendy? spot on he is.

"this guy named Ghiovanni Ag-Nelli" 😂😂😂 Yeah, you know, the most important business man in Italy ever. He was owner of FIAT (and Ferrari at that point), and always had these crazy cars, usually made for a single holiday. He had a Delta HF roadster (2 made, one for the museum) and a lot of other stuff. Living in Turin it was rare to see him in the city center driving some insane car.

crazy mate

Remember when this was for sale 10 years ago before it became the internet's Ferrari. I think it was 26

And I think my Boxsters oil leak is bad

I would love to hang out with this chap! Beers and weed are on me!

I love the rat rod aesthetic. Cars are an interest of mine, but my passion is bicycles, road bikes to be specific. All of my builds have a design concept, often with an automotive inspiration. Wishing to one day do a rat rod road bike build, I did a quick image search for rat rod bike, and rat rod road bike. Talk about disappointing, all that was coming up was page after page of beach cruiser or balloon tire style bikes with fenders, chain guards, fake gas tanks etc. Every example suffered from the same lame homogenous aesthetic, white wall tires, flame job paint schemes, and off the rack components. Nothing truly represented the rat rod ideals. I was disappointed in the custom cycle world, and decided I'd correct this agregious oversight myself. I'm now on my second incarnation, still in the works, having abandoned my initial project bike for a late l940's CCM with just the right patina. This "rat rod" will embody the spirt of the artform. Instead of looking like a Walmart beach cruiser with a few bolt on goodies and a comfy recumbent position for the rider. My road-rod will have slammed, drop style handlebars, tall saddle, vintage dyno powered headlight, old fashioned horn, etc. This topic may not sound interesting to most gear heads who watch this channel, but when complete, I hope to take the bike to car shows to mingle among the rat rod guys, and my guess is it will be a hit. But, this, as you car guys with projects of your own on the go know, is all a few years and many dollars in the future.

as odd and weird as it is. as soon as 80s video game and arcade came up i was on the edge of my seat saying outrun! i find it odd because in the Game Second Life i have a working arcade of outrun in game. i also have doom metal slug and from SNES TopGear. i love the Ratarossa that car as is, it is the embodiment of wabi sabi

12m30… totally redeemed yourself!! I was afraid Outrun would go unmentioned… love Outrun 😘

So Ferrari is alright with this? Surprised they don’t blacklist him or something

Out Run use to be my favorite game and if I was to go to an arcade today and that game is there I will be playing that game. Just saying 👍

I started following this guy after seeing him on Samcrac, cool guy.

That car made me find your channel (through Matt's One-Take) and I've been a sub for years now, Scott! Awesome to hear the full story behind it.

What about the red Ferrari from “national lampoons vacation? Where did that car end up?!!

This guy looks like what you’d get if you divided Guy Fieri in half

Not really a rat rod considering it's stock but for some exotic boys not bad I dig the style

Ok, I like him better now I know more about it. Mostly he didn't cut the roof off and make the paint that way. I now think it's cool, not some ass fing up a good car. Plus he's maintained it. So yeah, well done.

Mad lad

As a kid in the 80's I played Out Run when ever I could. This Testarossa desperately needs a paint job. I hope some day it finally gets painted. Thanks.

I've played outrun, Super fun game!

Badass.

I love that this fellow rebuilt this car, however I don't see the appeal of the primer color, and I don't feel like this is really a rat rod. When you compare it to other European rat rodders like Magnus Walker and Emery, their cars are very different that the stock cars they come from. I guess it is missing the roof but when I read rat rod I imagined something like Magnus Walkers cars.

I remember the out run arcade 🎮

I want to see an actual top on it. Maybe a geo metro convertible would work

It's pretty cool in its current state but, I'm not sure if he'll be getting an invitation to the Goodwood Festival of Speed anytime soon ;)

AZ plates @ <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="106">1:46</a>... not sure why

Scott… any news about the 512BB?

I’ve always wondered why Ferrari never sent Ratarossa a cease and desist order for just letting the car be

I'm still not convinced about this car in this state. I mean some rat rods can be cool, but I don't think the primer/red parts looks cool

And here's me thinking a Re-build is *Repairing the Broken* 🤔🤔

Somebody Build a V12 458 Because no modern Ferrari is a mid engine v12.

"We had just turned away an electric Ferrari 308" Good on em : ) I'm not someone who thinks people shouldn't be allowed to do what they want with their cars. But just like if you owned the mona lisa and drew a moustache on it, just because you own it doesn't make that right. We're just custodians for these works of art, and considering how every modern new car is becoming electric and all the things I love about driving/vehicles are dying and being replaced by robotic appliances, the only thing worse I can think of is to do that to something as amazing and original as a 308. How dare you, sir(s) : p

Bull---- you're the only one, mate, I'd have jumped on that car in a heartbeat and driven it just as is! :-D