Picking up our Cizeta V16 Supercar, 1 of 9!!

so what's up guys so we are here with a dear friend of ours mr danny kloss hola what's up he's uh this is not just uh this is a a real you know a lot of people say they're race car drivers you are a real you're a x4ml01 driver you are a real driver so this is an honor that he's joining us this morning we are on our way this is an exciting day i know it's funny like i couldn't miss it man i mean this is like one off it's like it really is you know it's funny you know and i'm probably guilty of this as well everyone always says like one-off cars like they're like oh why not no this is like really a true coach built you know i i believe there's nine in the world so exciting day we're going to pick up the shazetta um it's funny we started chasing this car about a year ago and i had always known about you know the shizeta cars and and obviously claudio zampoli um who worked for lamborghini he was a test driver and an engineer for a lamborghini but i had never had the opportunity to buy one i mean legitimately there was nine cars that were sold in period um and then of those cars if i'm not mistaken two chassis that are almost finished or at periods of finished and then one spider that was built later so so extremely rare imagine i've driven everything i've seen everything i've never seen in person well honestly i don't know how the car looks like so so what's funny is is that i was actually super scared to buy the car because like i didn't know anything about it i knew it was a cool piece of supercar history from the 80s and 90s but i was almost afraid of like you know service issues build quality issues i actually reached out six months ago to the original the brainchild of the car claudio zampoli and uh claudio's an interesting guy because he started with lamborghini he he developed the miura s into the sv he was a test driver he worked with bob wallace he told us some crazy stories about actually with ferruccio lamborghini he was actually driving around frucho lamborghini back and forth to milan to nightclubs at one point oh wait yeah so so those stories won't go public know those stories man it was like it was completely nuts but but i mean this is a guy he is a historic figure he is probably slightly misunderstood in many ways i mean he's he's he's argued with a lot of famous people as well um but he's he's a guy that he's a true genius and engineer so when he started telling me how he developed the car and you know he brought the best designers and engineers to help him build this car um marcelo gandini obviously the miura countach diablo you name it lancia stratos um head of design for bertone i mean you know he brought together former engineers from lamborghini i mean the blocks for the car the v the 16 cylinder block was produced by the same company let's make sure we're not getting lost here produced by the same company that did the blocks for ferrari so you know it's pretty wild so i was i was sort of apprehensive of buying the car the more research i did we brought him to miami we interviewed him we got some great sort of sound clips about him and and then i realized there was actually a letter um there's a guy that created a book about shizeta and there was a letter he put together all these great photos so there was a letter from ron dennis um at the time who had just started developing mclaren f1 to claudio so impressed by his fit and finish of this actually saying wow you've done an incredible job with this car so it's sort of a you know it's it's actually a really wild story um we'll sort of tell more of the story but right now we're on our way to the port of miami um to one of the bonded warehouses to pick up the car for the first time being in the us um this actual car was ordered nearby the soup number nine is the number nine this one uh yes yes uh so is actually no i'm sorry it was number i have to look at the number to look at it we have to look at the number um so i think it was the sixth car built um it was the geneva motor show car that's something unique that's something special because that was the car that represented the of course not well maybe the brand but yeah of course well there's there's a cute story and i've got to get into the details but apparently at the 1993 geneva auto show shizeta was next to ferrari yes and there was a little bit of a like yeah a little bit of a rivalry ferrari wasn't happy about that um so so this was the only blue car that was ever made it was the geneva auto show car it was claudio's favorite car which he he spoke about um he said something about the blue he said wait you see it in person so we get to see it now now we are on the way and we don't know how's the how does it look the situation of the car the how do you say el estado the state of the car well we know it it's essentially a new car i mean but but again it's it's built in 1993 you know um it's it's it comes from far far away it's it's from asia uh 900 original kilometers uh it's been sitting it does run um i don't know if we'll start it this morning i probably want to check all the fluids first um but yeah we'll see i mean it's it's pretty wild um you will have it at the store yeah so we will you know and and what i think you know for us whether we sell it immediately or not i think it's going to be important for us to tell the story and also show it i mean i want to bring it to amelia island concourse i want to bring it to pebble beach next year um yeah this guy has to be seen because it's been hiding for so long it needs to be shared it's part of history i think you know between claudio's history gandini history the engineers that put it together there's a gentleman and i'm gonna butcher the name so i won't say it now but we'll look it up later so it's the guy that originally built all the bodies for the 250 gto and the countach he actually built these bodies for this car so he he was the hand sort of hand panel beater for the aluminum bodies for the car so i mean this is really a tailor it's like a fine tailored suit and that what's interesting isn't and i don't want to get too much into the controversy of shizeta and how the company went under but that was probably if you start to sort of do research this was the problem was he was such a perfectionist that he was not cutting corners he was not saving money building these cars so hey we'll see it's a super exciting moment man i mean you've had a lot of these moments i guess with all the cars that you've seen that you've tested come on i saw videos of you when you were 16 years old driving and driving amazing cars and it's like oh my god that's mind-blowing but um but of course it's like um like a new present a new toy that's coming out of the box i mean i i would say this is probably one of the more exciting because i've never experienced one i mean it's you know the first time we got a bugatti eb 110 the same excitement it was i had never driven one i had never been around one this was our we've had two now this is our first car that was exciting um i would say uh the turbo countach when that arrived to miami the twin turbo gosh that was exciting just i wanted to hear it run but this this is up there this is this is as special as it gets i think so i think that for you it's well what i feel from you you're more excited always about like cars with history old cars than the new brand new super cars or hyper cars well you know what for me these the the older cars the weird cars the wacky cars it could be a gambala or an amg hammer you know these they have they have so much character you know they have they have some the new ones yes the old ones yeah you know this was you know even look at the mirror i mean the design team they were young guys they were bold thinkers and they were they this was their soul on the car i mean there was no financial restrictions it was like we're building that and you know many times they didn't work right when they were new but but you know it's like this is true automotive passion in this period of cars 100 where i love the new cars i mean obviously look we're driving a uh you know a new car now i'm not taking a countach to go run my daily errands um but you know the creature comforts you know obviously bluetooth is amazing and navigation and come for yes but they are made for comfort or nowadays cars they are made for and don't misunderstand but just to make everything so easy and for people come on i mean nowadays who who knows how to drive a shifter car no you know it's like it's it's uh and i think it's i think also the new cars they're they're perfect they're fast they're comfortable but we've lost like and i hate to even say this but if you drive if you go from new car to new car to new car back to back and i know you have they're so similar now yes they're they're all the same they're all so perfect out there i don't know which one if you tell me danny which car would you buy i don't know because they are so similar and each man has something super good you know yes but uh it's it's tough because they they are all cut like it looks they are caught but by the same scissors you know and i i agree and i look at you know you drive a testerosa or a countach and then you drive you get into a bugat man they each smell different and they feel different and and they have so much character you drive an older 911 and it's it's it's it's the sound and the even the horn like the way the door closes so i think it's i think that's why you look at the value of collector cars and they've been so consistent as well it's it's yes the new cars we're always going to have the affinity for them i mean there's always going to be you're always going to want the latest greatest ferrari mclaren lamborghini porsche whatever it is but there's something special about these older cars there just is yes okay let's see oh there's our truck so so we're we've arrived we've arrived let's see so i think it's gotta be one three two six oh uh one three two six out okay are you excited i am i'm very excited now [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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Published: Thu Aug 06 2020