Pleased you enjoyed it Howard, I owned a Testarossa for nearly 2 years followed by a 355 Spyder for 18 months. I loved both, put 6k miles on the Testarossa and 14k on the 355. If I had either and I had just done 2-3k a year the 512 would have done around 50k miles and be worth around £180k, the 355 would have done around 60k and been worth probably about £120k. Based on average servicing costs for each being about £3k every 8k miles I would have spent around £20K plus 3 sets of tyres at £6k, then add on £10k for big bills, so being realistic overall cost would have been around say £50k, so if I sold today I would have made about £90k on the 512 and about £10k on the 355.
It's all relative and as you say leaving the car parked can be an issue, although in some respects it may be in the mind. I parked the 355 in a public car park in the centre of Milton Keynes for 6months when working there and no one touched it. I came back to it a few times to find people looking at it.
