| Author | Message | ||
| Wolfgang Eistert (53345)
Member Username: 53345 Post Number: 522 Registered: 3-2003 |
Hi Peter, sounds great and you & your friend are very welcome!!! We are looking forward to drive in the first or second week of October. I will let you know more a.s.a.p. He have been at the Lago di Garda in March for 1 week.....awesome location - just amazing and you will love it! Everything is so close to (for example) Bardolino. Only 40 minutes to Maranello. For further details, just feel free to call me - see my profile for phone numbers. Wolfgang FORZA FERRARI | ||
| Peter P�tz (Pp_berlin)
New member Username: Pp_berlin Post Number: 10 Registered: 4-2003 |
Hi All ! I read, that you think about a trip to Italy. We (myself with a Mondial and a friend with a 308) want to drive to the Lago di Garda in the beginning of October. Maybe we can arrange a meeting in Italy. The exactly date is just open. With greetings from Berlin Peter | ||
| Wolfgang Eistert (53345)
Member Username: 53345 Post Number: 514 Registered: 3-2003 |
Mark, oh man, your schedule looks horrible to me: "December = See my wife again and go somewhere for Christmas!" MARK !!!! Whats up with you? Are you a total work-o-holic? You are close to your first heart attack - SLOW DOWN my dear friend and enjoy your family! Maybe in a couple of years you can say: - I have had a lovely wife - but never saw here... - I have owned a fantastic Ferrari - but never drove here.... - I have had a beautiful house - but never have lived there.... Your friend Wolfgang FORZA FERRARI | ||
| Mark Pautz (Malfark)
Member Username: Malfark Post Number: 353 Registered: 10-2002 |
Wolfgang, my rough schedule looks something like this: * October = Poland & Germany doing some personal research * October - November = Finding a house on the island * November - December = South Africa to do as much flying as possible (& lots more) * December = See my wife again and go somewhere for Christmas! Hey guys, isn't this just terrible  : http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=6212&item=2426477422 Cheers, MARK | ||
| Wolfgang Eistert (53345)
Member Username: 53345 Post Number: 511 Registered: 3-2003 |
Mark, October sounds fine. So you can join us on our Italy trip? Wolfgang FORZA FERRARI | ||
| Mark Pautz (Malfark)
Member Username: Malfark Post Number: 351 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hi Guys, I will work on my schedule in the coming weeks. My assignment ends on September 30 and I will be taking off October-December...perhaps not the best time for driving! I will let you know how my plans develop. Cheers, MARK | ||
| Wolfgang Eistert (53345)
Member Username: 53345 Post Number: 503 Registered: 3-2003 |
Mark, yes, I agree with Uwe. What are your plans for your vacation? Please let us know and we will find a solution to meet us. I`m looking forward to drive with a few friends of mine and our Ferraris for 1 week to Italy. We would like to drive around the 41. week in October to Maranello, Toscana, Lago DiGarda to enjoy the Wine and Italian food. Right now we are only a few drivers maybe you want to join the group??? Pasquale 360 Modena Ulli Mondial or Diablo Heiko 3.. GTS Wolfgang 308 GTS Wolfgang FORZA FERRARI | ||
| Uwe Ricken (Uricken)
Junior Member Username: Uricken Post Number: 53 Registered: 3-2003 |
Hi Mark, where will you stay the next three month. Hope you will be in Europe and we can meet again (in Frankfurt or in Prague) With red wishes Uwe Ricken | ||
| Mark Pautz (Malfark)
Member Username: Malfark Post Number: 343 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hi Martin, He-he!! Stunning idea - I wish I had thought of that earlier, but I left it F-A-A-A-R away in Germany!! Goodbye... Hi Gentlemen. I apologise for the recent silence. It's been a busy and stressful time at work. I received and accepted a job offer, and resigned from my current employer this week. I will take a three month vacation starting at the end of September and will be following Wolfgang's advice: "Mark - you need to slow down"! Thanks Wolfgang - I blame you!  MARK | ||
| Martin - Cavallino Motors (Miami348ts)
Senior Member Username: Miami348ts Post Number: 5380 Registered: 5-2001 |
Mark, sell the exhaust on eBay. Starting bid $1. See what response you get. Post who made it with their address just for the heck of it! | ||
| Martin - Cavallino Motors (Miami348ts)
Senior Member Username: Miami348ts Post Number: 5379 Registered: 5-2001 |
I need to do more business with Lee's Custom Exhaust Shop  | ||
| Wolfgang Eistert (53345)
Member Username: 53345 Post Number: 468 Registered: 3-2003 |
Hi Mark, well, I agree that the "R.F.Museum of Torture Instruments" is a worthy & dignified funeral for this kind of american-hand-made craftsman...! Wolfgang FORZA FERRARI | ||
| Mark Pautz (Malfark)
Member Username: Malfark Post Number: 332 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hi Wolfgang, I have donated the sexy American exhaust to the "Fehr Museum of Torture Instruments" My car is no longer strangled by this monstrosity and now breathes freely without the catalysor. I noticed that my fuel consumption was up on Saturday, but I guess that could be because I was having a LOT of fun!  Cheers, MARK | ||
| Wolfgang Eistert (53345)
Member Username: 53345 Post Number: 467 Registered: 3-2003 |
Hi Mark, beautiful pics looks like a brand new car with a brand new engine. Amazing clean! Your old exhaust system is the most ugly system we have ever seen! Don`t throw it away Mark. This is the one for the technical museum  Hope to CU soon again Wolfgang FORZA FERRARI | ||
| Mark Pautz (Malfark)
Member Username: Malfark Post Number: 328 Registered: 10-2002 |
POSTING NUMBER 328 Back home after a long day on the road. I stopped at my local dealer to pay homage before wasing and polishing:  The business end:  ...looking immaculate after 45 hours of work (including the silencer replacement): * Cam belt & rollers * Filters, hoses & fluids * Drive shafts re-greased * Replaced exhaust system & connecting tubes * Removed Cat-electronics * Repaired window electricals & outside rear-view mirror switch * Repaired mis-firing: two sparkplug caps and a distributor rotor * Repaired bumper & fender * Repaired handbrake * Replaced engine hood gas struts & radiator cap * Repaired rubber seal in trunk * Recharged the air-conditioner ....and an array of smaller things. This is the box of tricks that was surgically removed - I forgot the link in my posting below: http://www.ferrarichat.com/discus/messages/112/236243.html MARK | ||
| Mark Pautz (Malfark)
Member Username: Malfark Post Number: 327 Registered: 10-2002 |
This is the silencer (manufactured by "Lee�s Custom Exhaust Shop" in Florida, USA) that came off of my car:  Read about it here: http://www.ferrarichat.com/discus/messages/256120/212428.html?1047223982#POST157634 This is what went on: http://www.ferrarichat.com/discus/messages/256120/223734.html And (after 10 hours of labour) this is what it looks like now:  This chunk of after-marker Cat-converter-crap has also been surgically removed, and my car now breathes freely! My patience has paid off! MARK | ||
| Mark Pautz (Malfark)
Member Username: Malfark Post Number: 326 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hi Markus, Yes - that's a Smart supercar parked next to the puny Diablo! Wolfgang, it would have been ideal to have stayed over but not only did I have work commitments (I had to get something out on Saturday night) but the weather was just perfect and the traffic was reasonable...so I elected to "hit the road". Uwe also had (domestic) work to do and you had important clients helping you to get your Testarossa! ... so we were all a little pushed for time. We really need to find a weekend when we are all just able to relax and drink a lot!! Last weekend was just too hectic! I look forward to welcoming you guys at my place in the near future! Here's the sight that presented itself to me when the garage door opened on Saturday at 09h00...  MARK | ||
| Uwe Ricken (Uricken)
New member Username: Uricken Post Number: 44 Registered: 3-2003 |
Hi Mark, thank you for the PM. I'm glad that you have arrived home savely. I can imagine how you feel now when all trouble is away from the car ;-) I was in the same situation ... It was a pleasure for me to help you make you happy for the rest of the day. Thank you very much for the nice present - it smells good ;-) I hope we will meet next time in Prague (hope with Wolfgang). @Wolfgang We are a living community of Ferrarista - I will help whenever I can. Therefore we are friends ;-) I hope to see you at "Elternabend" in Egelsbach ... With red greetings Uwe Ricken | ||
| Wolfgang Eistert (53345)
Member Username: 53345 Post Number: 461 Registered: 3-2003 |
Mark, great to hear that you are safely back home. It was a loooong day & trip for you. But it worth it! Now you have a perfect toy for the next few years. I`m a bit sorry, that we haven`t met us for driving, BBQ party and stay in my house till sunday. Anyway, so we are looking forward to drive to you in the next 2 months. Thanks UWE for jumping in your car to pick up Mark; it was impossible for me `cause I have had an appointment/meeting with some customers in my store. You are a great gent & friend! Wolfgang FORZA FERARI | ||
| PlayersMarkus (Playersmarkus)
Junior Member Username: Playersmarkus Post Number: 108 Registered: 10-2002 |
Btw, we will have a couple Playersrun parties in Europe in the fall, one in Germany. It will be at a club called P1 in Munich. Send me an email for an invitation. We were thinking to have another one either in Duesseldorf or Hamburg if we get help with organisation ;o) Markus Playersrun.com | ||
| PlayersMarkus (Playersmarkus)
Junior Member Username: Playersmarkus Post Number: 107 Registered: 10-2002 |
looks like you're : erleichtern a Dutch Ferrari um einen exhaust,lol;O) Is that a Smart car next to the Diabolo ? Markus Playersrun | ||
| Heiko (Hgparts)
Junior Member Username: Hgparts Post Number: 143 Registered: 3-2003 |
hi mark i saw your car when i was there to pic mine up on thursday. now you know how the 328 goes when the engine is perfect. to bad we dident get the meeting right for today. i hope i will meet you sometime. heiko hgparts | ||
| Mark Pautz (Malfark)
Member Username: Malfark Post Number: 325 Registered: 10-2002 |
Uwe & Wolfgang, I'm safely back home! Uwe - THANKS so much for picking me up at such an ungodly hour this morning!!! My car is WONDERFUL so it was worth all the effort. I had an EXCELLENT trip back home and got a good suntan in the process I then washed my car, drove around the city centre for kicks, went back to my apartment, did a bit of polishing, and had three beers at the same time...I live above a pub, and they brought me free drinks so that they could look at my beautiful car)!!! I went to the pub thereafer and carried on quenching my sun & adrenaline induced thirst....phew! I have not been drunk in some time!!! My wife is supposed to be home from abroad tonight but is "stuck" till Monday night because of airport strikes in the UK! If I had known I would have stayed in Frankfurt for the night I look forward to you guys visiting SOON! Cheers & THANKS again! MARK | ||
| Wolfgang Eistert (53345)
Member Username: 53345 Post Number: 460 Registered: 3-2003 |
Mark, so Sunday, 20. July? Please advice a.s.a.p. to make arrangement with Robert - no problem for Sunday; but must let him know right in time. Ulli & Heiko would also like to join us. Or otherwise 26.-27 July? It`s YOUR party Mark, whatever you prefer?! Wolfgang FORZA FERRARI | ||
| Mark Pautz (Malfark)
Member Username: Malfark Post Number: 324 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hey Wolfgang! Thanks for the fax and e-mail that I received this evening. Amazing!! Unfortunately Debra is out of the country till Saturday night so I don't know how we're going to do this. Next weekend look just as bad DAMN! Ton - thank for sending the gas struts. They have apparently been fitted The people on this list are just incredible! MARK | ||
| Uwe Ricken (Uricken)
New member Username: Uricken Post Number: 40 Registered: 3-2003 |
More off topic ... Aaach e guude nach Schwetzinge ;-) It is amazing - only 24 hours to be in the "world of Ferrari ;-) With red greetings | ||
| Wolfgang Eistert (53345)
Member Username: 53345 Post Number: 454 Registered: 3-2003 |
Hi Martin, area code 06202 is Schwetzingen (close to Heidelberg - 2 miles)where I come from. Ei en guuute nach Frankfurt, Morgen Uwe--off-topic-German-Umgangs-Language;-) Wolfgang FORZA FERRARI | ||
| Uwe Ricken (Uricken)
New member Username: Uricken Post Number: 37 Registered: 3-2003 |
Bullshit with the links ;-( I mean the third picture from top ... With red greetings | ||
| Uwe Ricken (Uricken)
New member Username: Uricken Post Number: 36 Registered: 3-2003 |
Hi Dirk on this picture: <img> From left to right Robert Fehr, Wolfgang Eistert, Mark Pautz and Ulli Pauli. I'm on another picture (wearing the read Ferrari Shirt) @Martin I live near Frankfurt (24 km) between Frankfurt and Darmstadt. I have lived in Frankfurt for more than 5 years but now i have two little princesses and I don't want to grew them up in a criminal city like Frankfurt. With red greetings | ||
| Dirk de Jager (Dj_dirk)
Junior Member Username: Dj_dirk Post Number: 229 Registered: 2-2002 |
really nice guys, but euuhmm who's who? | ||
| Martin - Cavallino Motors (Miami348ts)
Senior Member Username: Miami348ts Post Number: 5103 Registered: 5-2001 |
Wolfgang and Uwe, you both look very familiar! I grew up in Frankfurt and am sure our paths must have crossed somewhere. Which part of Frankfurt do you live? Uwe, you are somewhere near Neu Isenburg, right? 06202 area code. Man, I could go for one of those Weizen right now.... | ||
| Mark Pautz (Malfark)
Member Username: Malfark Post Number: 321 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hi Guys, I am just about to leave for Cyprus where I will be working for the rest of the week. On Saturday morning I fly to Frankfurt and hope to see you all again at the Meistro's!! Later, MARK | ||
| Uwe Ricken (Uricken)
New member Username: Uricken Post Number: 33 Registered: 3-2003 |
Hi Mark, wonderful pictures - I did not notice that you have taken some pics ;) As I see in the last picture you all have had a wonderful lunch with Robert Fehr and his wife. I'm very sorry that i had to leave so early but my two little princesses (4 and 8 years old) were waiting for her daddy. With red greetings Uwe Ricken | ||
| Wolfgang Eistert (53345)
Member Username: 53345 Post Number: 430 Registered: 3-2003 |
Mark, thanks for posting the pics. But you forgot to mention, that some of the (ugly) guys drove a few hunderd miles on early Saturday morning. So usual (later in the afternoon) we are all looking better & smarter  Wolfgang FORZA FERRARI | ||
| Mark Pautz (Malfark)
Member Username: Malfark Post Number: 319 Registered: 10-2002 |
        At the end of June a group of European F-Chatters & Ferrari lovers gathered in a village north of Frankfurt. Wolfgang Eistert, Uwe Ricken, Ulli Pauli, Robert Fehr and Mark Pautz were joined by Robert and Mark's wives in the brilliant summer sunshine! A great time was had by all and the meeting will soon reconvene! Gentlemen - it was great meeting you all and thanks for everything...it was a great weekend Cheers, MARK |