The experience
Buying a classic should feel like the ownership will
Unhurried, transparent and documented at every step. This is how a motor car leaves Ferrobello — whether you visit the showroom weekly or buy from three time zones away.
Six steps, no surprises
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The conversation
Every purchase begins with a talk, not a test drive. What will the car do in your life — shows, Sunday mornings, a continental tour? Twenty minutes on the telephone or over coffee at the showroom saves months of looking at the wrong cars.
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The dossier, before the car
We send the full history file first: provenance chain, inspection report, restoration records, paint-depth survey and current photographs. You should know a car completely before you stand next to it — the metal should only ever confirm the paperwork.
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The private viewing
Viewings are by appointment and unhurried — the car on the ramp with panels open, cold start, and a road run on our loop through the hills above Kingsfield. Bring your specialist, your family, or nobody at all.
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Independent inspection, welcomed
Any inspector you choose is welcome on our ramp with our tools and our time. We would rather lose a sale than have a car leave here ahead of a question it could not answer.
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Paperwork & payment, properly
Funds move through escrow, title and export paperwork are handled by us, and the provenance dossier transfers to you as a bound archive — original documents where we hold them, certified copies where the archive must stay whole.
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Delivery & the first month
Enclosed, insured transport to your door — across the country or across an ocean. Thirty days in, we check in: a first-service inspection at our workshop or a trusted specialist near you, on us.
The showroom
By appointment, never by pressure
14 Coachworks Row, Kingsfield is a working building, not a stage: fifteen cars, the workshop bays behind glass, and the archive room where every dossier lives. Appointments run ninety minutes and are yours alone — no other parties, no hovering.
Buying from afar? We film cold starts and full walkarounds on request, drive the car on camera, and host live video inspections from the ramp. A third of our cars leave for owners who first see them in person on delivery day.
What we stand behind
The dossier is the warranty
Every line of a Ferrobello description is matched to a document in the car's file. If we cannot prove a claim, we do not print it.
Nothing hidden under paint
Paint-depth readings on every panel, photographs of every known trouble spot, and structural findings disclosed in writing before you commit.
Seven days to be certain
If an independent re-inspection in the first week after delivery contradicts our report, the car comes back at our cost. It has happened once in twenty-two years.