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Ferrari 512 BBi Is A Piece of Art [video] (videry.me)

62 points by luisvieira_gmr ↗ HN
When Holger Schubert created his studio-garage space, he did what any self-respecting, Ferrari-loving, minimalist architect would do: he took his work-of-art BB 512i and built everything around it. As any showcased work of art deserves to be, Holger's car is in the spotlight and on the pedestal that is the studio garage, which was designed and built for the specific purpose of working and living alongside the Ferrari. Holger shares the details of his car and of his enviable space, which includes a 16-foot driveway bridge, a ramp to roll the car outside to start, and some of the best views a car can take in of the Pacific Ocean.

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abruzzi
Shades of Ferris Beuller. Hopefully he doesn't have a son.
saurabh
Reminded me of the movie too.
philbarr
Lovely. And I love how he has basically centered his entire (living room?) around the one car and has a little ramp to edge it out into the world and everything. Especially because, I think, you don't want to turn the engine on, fill the place up with smoke and then drive off.

One thing though, how does he get the car back in?

Eduardo3rd
I'm curious about this too. Maybe there's a similar ramp outside the living room that rolls the car in?
philbarr
I was waiting to see if there was one - you would think it would be shown if there was.
greghinch
Maybe not as much of a concern. It's likely the car needs to warm up for a few minutes when starting, so you don't want to do that idling inside. Easy enough to just drive in and immediately shut it off though.
philbarr
You'd still end up pumping quite a lot of carbon monoxide into your living space doing that, I think.
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duncanmcdowell
It wouldn't be significant - leave the garage door open for a few minutes and you would be fine. I imagine he has ventilation designed to take this into consideration.
inthewind
Would you need to do at at all? As it wouldn't get cold.
greghinch
Cold for an engine block and timing belts and cold for a person are two different things
ianstallings
He could turn it off and roll it in like you would an airplane.
nighthawk24
Umm, NO. That car is a car. It is the value given to it and value which is extracted from it.
Eduardo3rd
Are you saying that something can only be art if it has no value?
greghinch
Or even that something can only be art if it has no other function? Don't be silly (Directed at grandparent)
nighthawk24
No. I am saying, if one does not give value to something, it is not valuable. And for me, that Ferrari is just a car.
BaconJuice
Yes, how dare he have an opinion about something he owns and build something around it!
duncanmcdowell
Well...that's a fairly depressing interpretation of art.
maxwell2022
it doesn't have any registration numbers?
bredren
Mitt Romney also has a car elevator.
jrsmitchell
For those that liked this, the video comes from a fantastic series called Petrolicious:

http://www.youtube.com/user/PetroliciousCo

As a car nut I look forward to their videos and rewatch them regularly. They really do a better job of capturing "automotive enthusiasm" than any other series I've seen. They videos have a very positive energy and as a result the comments on these videos are also almost entirely positive - never seen this on YouTube before!

A few others that non-car-nuts might like are:

Never Enough Alfa (hilarious back story about his father) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx2sPfgqlkg and Jack's Toy Is a BMW Isetta (nice energy, hilarious sweater): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70ufaopHIVI

zalew
amazing channel, didn't know about it <goes straight to the bmw videos>.
arethuza
Here is a video of Chris Evans letting James May drive his £12 million 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxWMYcPX27s

duncanmcdowell
Oh man...I don't know if I would let anyone drive that car on a wet road (even if it was James May). I cringed when he went through that rather large puddle.
inthewind
Wonder if he needs it, as he has such a short drive to work.

I was quite jealous of the love he had for that thing.