I believe I remember you posting in this group before ...

Well - I'm sure everybody will stumble and fight over the chance to be
the first to yell Ferrichat! Ferrichat! if you want to specialize in
Ferraris, as that seems to be the vogue around here these days.
Whatever.  For what you want to do you probably need to start observing
some of the best in the business at what you're wanting to do.  There
are specialists, and then there are fly-by-nights, and then there are in
betweens.  I don't know of a lot myself because I'm not sure what you
envision yourself becoming.  There's a dealer in Newport Beach, Newport
Autosport.  They specialize in different marques.  Mike Sheehan is
probably one of the better-known private dealer/collectors and he's in
Orange County (http//:www.ferraris-online.com).  Symbolic Motors in San
Diego and LA is another multiple-marque specialist.

http://www.newportautosport.com

(their website doesn't seem to be up right now)

http://www.symbolicmotors.com/

You obviously would need to concentrate on the high-dollar areas of
Orange County: coastal area from San Diego to Huntington Beach, then
again after Long Beach and on up beyond Malibu, anywhere there's hills
with nice homes on them (Tustin, Orange, Villa Park, Fullerton, some
Inland Empire areas, Westside LA, parts of the Valley, and of course the
usual main areas: Bel Air, Beverly Hills, you know where I mean.  And
most of those last areas have plenty of auto brokers already.  Look 'em
up, have a visit, find out how they do what they do and then figure out
a way to do it better.

Motorex in Torrance specializes in bringing in (only) Nissan Skylines
from Japan.  Their operation is interesting.

http://www.skylinegtr.com/

As far as small-time, high quality brokers, I don't really know of any,
but maybe some would classify Sheehan as that and I would not disagree.
 A lot of restoration experts could also qualify as importer/sellers
because they buy cars that need a lot of work, do the restoration, and
then sell the vehicle.  But unless you're trained - and trained well -
in exotic car restoration, forget that option.

As far as importing/exporting, you can find that information yourself on
the web pretty easy.  Typing "importing exotic cars" into Google (no
quotes) got me these:

http://www.buyclassiccars.com/import.asp

http://www.sportscarcompany.com/

http://www.hqusareur.army.mil/opm/feb04.htm

http://www.ferraris-online.com/Articles/SCM_9912.html

http://www.exclusiveautos.com/

http://www.importeasy.com

and that was just on the first page.  That's about all I can give you,
as far as maintenance others here have maintenance info on some Ferrari
models.  You'll have to go to other newsgroups to get maintenance info
on those marques.

Now, if you want to become one of those fly-by-nights "churning" exotics
for profit, good luck!  You may look around you and see the value of
these cars shooting up: Bentley, Rolls, some land/Range Rovers when
supercustomized, Mercedes, BMW, Porsche Turbo, Aston Martin, etc. - not
as many older Ferraris but LOTS of new ones like F430, 550 and 612
Scaglietti and also Lambo Murcielago/Gallardo.  You may see how many of
the gold chain rapper/ musician types, actors, athletes, etc. are buying
  exotics, "blinging" them out, and then selling them because they want
something else, something better,want the latest thing or to "up" their
contemporaries, or go broke smoking crack, etc.  Or they might not sell
it but get really interested in cars and just start filling garages
(Jamiroquai).

<Only the superrich, fanatic car collectors buy the absolute exotics
like Ferrari Enzo, Koenigssegg, Ruf Porsche, Mercedes SLR McLaren, and
Porsche Carrera GT, and also the finest older models from these marques.
  Very few casual rich and almost no "churnover" specialists.  Now,
Jerry Seinfeld or Bill Gates might be able to get whatever they want
from Porsche, and Jay Leno might be able to get anything he wants from
anybody, but you're not going to see Nick Lachey or Diddy driving around
in a Koenigssegg.>

Anyway, these people pretty much deal through the same broker, somebody
they hand around amongst themselves.  If you want to become one of
those, you better know somebody in one of the aforementioned fields (the
potential customer types listed above), then make a few deals to get
known, and then you start getting a rep.  OR, you can start buying used
exotics, restoring them, and then reselling them, as I mentioned above -
NOT AN EASY BUSINESS IN WHICH TO MAKE A BUCK.  I'm curious as to how you
decided that's what you wanted to do.  It's not an easy profession for a
newbie or even somebody who knows what they're doing with cars *and*
importing.  And, as always, you need HARD work, major dedication, a
passion for your product, and a LOT of luck.