| Author | Message | ||
| BretM (Bretm)
Advanced Member Username: Bretm Post Number: 2595 Registered: 2-2001 |
Rijk, I'll be there too, I'll keep an eye out for your car. I wont have the 308 ready yet, just be in the jeep. | ||
| Rijk Rietveld (Rijk365gtb4)
New member Username: Rijk365gtb4 Post Number: 26 Registered: 1-2002 |
Tim, I will take you for a ride if you come to the WWoC tech day on May 19. I will be there in the morning Rijk | ||
| Tyler (Bahiaau)
Member Username: Bahiaau Post Number: 258 Registered: 12-2001 |
Summer-94 I was at a Porsche Club BBQ. One of the guys brought his 89 328 also. A friend of mine dropped by in his new 348 Spider. I went for a ride in the spider and then the 328. That was a fun day. Lots of very fast cars and two fantastic Ferraris. A month later I had driven both of those F-cars and have been hooked ever since. | ||
| Andrew (Mrrou)
Member Username: Mrrou Post Number: 257 Registered: 3-2002 |
in february of 2000 i drove a 99' 355F1 Spider...buetiful car..incredable car! a wierd but georgous dark blue exterior with a yellow interior...I was doing a charity event i was partners with a woman who owned it..oh and it had 600 miles on it..did i mention that i drove it?? that was my first and last time with a f1..it made a good impression on me though...it influenced my father to buy a 355 after seeing this one in his driveway  | ||
| Peter K. (Bubba)
New member Username: Bubba Post Number: 7 Registered: 5-2002 |
86 Mondial 3.2 QV, red/cream, just bought it 2 weeks ago | ||
| Tim Hogan (Tojo)
New member Username: Tojo Post Number: 20 Registered: 4-2002 |
First ride: July 99 in a 76 308 first drive: March 2000 in a 246 GTS, shortly followed by driving the Lancia Stratos a couple of hours later. First ownership: June 2001, 79 308gtb. Still finishing the restoration. I can't wait to drive it | ||
| Najib Amanullah (Najib)
Junior Member Username: Najib Post Number: 126 Registered: 4-2001 |
Jan 2002 - Red 348 TS....after I had bought it and had it delivered. Never driven one before that although I had sat in the 348 at a motorshow in 1990. | ||
| Tim N (Timn88)
Member Username: Timn88 Post Number: 863 Registered: 6-2001 |
Who wants to take me for a ride? | ||
| magoo (Magoo)
Advanced Member Username: Magoo Post Number: 2688 Registered: 2-2001 |
My first Ferrari was and is a 79 308 GTS. I bought this car because of it having no computers, sensors, or electronics in general. The last carb. model. This will be the only Ferrari I probably will collect. I enjoy it for what it is and being a part of yesteryear. | ||
| '75 308 GT4 (Peter)
Intermediate Member Username: Peter Post Number: 1832 Registered: 12-2000 |
My first ride in a Ferrari was the one I eventually bought, my GT4... When I was 14 and visting Classic Ferrari (now: FofD), the salesman let me start up a 328, right in the showroom! Yeah, that got me hooked on Ferraris... | ||
| Mark Izzo (Tdf355)
New member Username: Tdf355 Post Number: 8 Registered: 3-2002 |
My first ride was in a 83 Rosso Rubino 308. My first drive was the 85 Qvalve 308 that I own to this day(I bought it in 1993) Ron Thomas called it one of the nicest he's seen and I do appreciate that Ron!! Ive also driven a brand new 348 Spider in 1994, a 97 355 Spider, a 99 550 Maranello and my current car, a TDF Blue 355 F1 Spider. I will drive a 360 this week. My goals are to soon drive an F40 and a 365 Daytona. Come to think of it Id like to drive a Testarossa, 512Tr, F50, 456, BB512, 288GTO........ | ||
| Patrick R. (Patrickr)
New member Username: Patrickr Post Number: 9 Registered: 4-2002 |
First drive (three years ago): 1991 Ferrari 348 TS- Rosso Corsa exterior (or course)- drove it 100 ft.! I work at an auction company every summer here in Tulsa and have the opportunity to drive some wonderful cars. I did sit in it for 30 minutes Patrick | ||
| Eric Eiland (Eric308gtsiqv)
Member Username: Eric308gtsiqv Post Number: 273 Registered: 11-2001 |
Wow, Greg...that's interesting. Sounds like our 308 experiences are very similar. | ||
| Terry Daniel (Dogue)
New member Username: Dogue Post Number: 46 Registered: 9-2001 |
My first ride was in a 348 Spider red and tan, with a very good friend, Charlie. He is a crazy guy we hit about 145mph that day. The sound of the engine the smell of the leather and the exhaust one of the most amazing times of my life. My first drive was about a week later in a 355 Spider red and tan. I had just met Victor about a half hour before he offered me to drive his car. It was incredible, I was so nervous..... | ||
| Greg Owens (Owens84qv)
Member Username: Owens84qv Post Number: 350 Registered: 10-2001 |
Eric, we bought our F-cars 9-days apart! | ||
| Ron Thomas (Ronsupercar)
New member Username: Ronsupercar Post Number: 7 Registered: 5-2002 |
My first ride in a Ferrari was in a 308 gtb4. After that a friend of mine picked up a 348 ts, very nice. A year later he graduated to a 91 TR. He got it up to 140 mph on the way to Limerock. I know this one is away from the F-car but another friend of mine took me for a ride in his Yellow Lambo Roadster from Long Island NY to Pocano Race track in PA. Now that was something I will never forget..We drive through Manhattan to the Holland tunnel. Everyone, young and old, stopped to look. Woman we tring to talk to me and I was just the passenger. Even though we all know Ferrari is king, The diablo roadster is an animal and draws way more attention due to how rare it is to come across. My Final F-car experience was in Marks beautiful quatro-v 308 gtsi. One for the finest you'll see. Thanks Mark.. | ||
| Eric Eiland (Eric308gtsiqv)
Member Username: Eric308gtsiqv Post Number: 272 Registered: 11-2001 |
First ride in a Ferrari was October 29, 2001 in a 1985 308 GTSi QV -- the day that I bought it! ...been on "Cloud 9" ever since! | ||
| Bill Sawyer (Wsawyer)
Junior Member Username: Wsawyer Post Number: 136 Registered: 2-2002 |
Wow, Ross! A ride with Stommelen in a 917 at the age of ten? I'm jealous as hell. No wonder you're a car junkie. A friend of mine got a ride around Laguna Seca with David Donahue in his dad's Porsche 917/30 Can-Am car. There were no seat belts for the passenger. Donahue forgot that little point and braked hard for a corner. When the brakes took hold my friend lifted right out of the seat. He held on for dear life and just barely missed being ejected! | ||
| Greg Rodgers (Joechristmas)
Member Username: Joechristmas Post Number: 265 Registered: 3-2001 |
My first ride/drive was a 1980 308 GTBi Red with Black interior around 1998 in Atlanta, GA. It was in rough shape but what a ride. | ||
| Mr. Doody (Doody)
Junior Member Username: Doody Post Number: 168 Registered: 11-2001 |
when i was growing up (think: Fox's "That 70s Show") i was never much into ferraris. i was a porsche guy. i guess the 1970s f-cars just didn't do it for me. in the '80s i started to pay attention with the Testarossa, but until then the 308/BB/Mondial/328 cars just didn't do it for me (i've grown to seriously appreciate them now, but like avocados, it was an acquired taste). so i never worked that hard to get a ride early on. if memory serves,my first ride/drive was in a 328. doody! | ||
| ross koller (Ross)
Junior Member Username: Ross Post Number: 61 Registered: 3-2002 |
first ride was the 92 348ts that i bought. that sound and the aura around it were too much to resist. not to divert the thread too much but....the first mega ride, in any car, i had was when i was about 10 and was with my father at hockenheim for an amateur race (he drove some for porsche), and i got a ride with rolf stommelen in a 917 long tail (it had a passenger jump seat fitted), for a few laps. it was an indescribably fast (and loud) ride ! that was it - i was hooked on speed from there on. good memory. | ||
| Dave Penhale (Dapper)
New member Username: Dapper Post Number: 8 Registered: 4-2002 |
Literally a week ago today First ride and First drive, i'm buying it. 348TS 1991 2600 miles, all annual services, all MOT'S, mint and immediately concourseable - couldn't really not buy it! | ||
| Tillman Strahan (Tillman)
New member Username: Tillman Post Number: 22 Registered: 11-2001 |
My first ride was April 20, 2002, in a red 308GTSi. Thanks again, Jerry! | ||
| Kurt White (Ferraribooks)
New member Username: Ferraribooks Post Number: 12 Registered: 2-2002 |
Guys, I haven't yet ridden in one :-( The amount of times i've been to Ferrari UK & still not gone out for a cruise. Each time i walk through the car park & see all those machines, I smile at the car & say, very shortly! Kurt. | ||
| Andrew (Mrrou)
Junior Member Username: Mrrou Post Number: 239 Registered: 3-2002 |
9? F50..a friend of the family's boss has one..yellow on black...fast and loud..was incredable | ||
| Tino (Bboxer)
Junior Member Username: Bboxer Post Number: 84 Registered: 8-2001 |
1976 in the heart of Paris, Charles Pozzi took me for a memorable ride in a fiberglass yellow 308B from his dealership to CDG Airport and back on the Peripherique, Friday evening in traffic. The guy was nuts and drove back on the shoulder to get back to the city. I was hooked, bought my first (a blue 79 GTS) 3 years later. | ||
| Tim N (Timn88)
Member Username: Timn88 Post Number: 855 Registered: 6-2001 |
1st ride- who wants to take me for one? | ||
| wm hart (Whart)
Member Username: Whart Post Number: 261 Registered: 12-2001 |
Oh, man, in 1973, i dropped out of college to work in the then nascent Hi-end hi-fi business, and wound up replacing a sales guy, who i dealt with when i was a customer, named mike curley. mike was a notorious wheeler dealer, in all kinds of things, including cars. We became friendly even after i replaced him at the hi fi store (apparently, he became a rep for a # of the lines the store sold, so got a commission by selling the goods to the store, and then again, when he resold them to store customers). Anyway, mike was also into Ferraris, and you know how people sometimes bullshit. Well, we trecked out to Mike's farm one day, and there were 5 or 6 F cars in a barn/garage in various states of (dis)repair. I didn't know much about F cars then, and when mike showed me the OEM tires, still wrapped in brown paper, and pointed to a wood block that was attached to the pedal of one of the racing ferraris, 'cause one of the driver's legs (god knows who, maybe you all do) was shortened in a wreck, i just nodded, appreciating the full madness of the guy. I have later seen references to some of the cars mike owned (his name can be searched on barchetta cc) and he did have some serious 50's and 60's cars. I called him a few years ago when i finally got the fever, for some advice; mike said he got out before the "crash" and now is only interested in pre-50's F cars. Me too. (by the way, his garden planter in the yard was a rusting Lambo). My first experience, indeed. | ||
| Hubert Otlik (Hugh)
Junior Member Username: Hugh Post Number: 79 Registered: 1-2002 |
1st ride: 1999 360 Modena F1 Coupe, amazing doesn't even begin to describe the feeling. I've also gotten rides in a 355 spyder and 550. 1st Drive: Any volunteers? | ||
| David P. Smith (Dave330gtc)
New member Username: Dave330gtc Post Number: 5 Registered: 3-2002 |
The first Ferrari that I had the pleasure of driving was a 250 Cabriolet Series II in 1979 at Road America in Elkhart Lake. I will never forget the experience. I was amazed at the smoothness and the sound of the V-12 engine. | ||
| Jim E (Jimpo1)
Member Username: Jimpo1 Post Number: 389 Registered: 7-2001 |
First ride: brand new 1977 308GTB, the day my neighbor the surgeon picked it up. First drive: 1987 328GTS, my car, the day I picked it up. I've ridden in 2 others, a 355 and a 348. | ||
| Greg Owens (Owens84qv)
Member Username: Owens84qv Post Number: 345 Registered: 10-2001 |
First ride (2001): 2001 360 Spyder...the plastic had been taken off minutes before my butt hit the seat. Looked on the floor in the passenger footwell and there was an Italian Lire coin. First drive (2001): 1984 Euro 308QV. I liked it so much I decided to buy it. | ||
| Manu Sachdeva (Manu)
Junior Member Username: Manu Post Number: 207 Registered: 2-2002 |
In 1997 - 1997 Ferrari F355 Spyder when there were none around. More than anything it was the sound of the engine that had me hooked for life. | ||
| Michael Yip (Mightyslash)
New member Username: Mightyslash Post Number: 27 Registered: 4-2002 |
The first Ferrari I drove was a 98 F355 Berlinetta. | ||
| Jack (Gilles27)
Junior Member Username: Gilles27 Post Number: 226 Registered: 3-2002 |
In '87, I drove a Euro-spec 308 ('79) that belonged to the friend of a friend. I was in heaven. The funny thing was that the speedo was in km/h. I didn't feel like constantly converting my speed, and as a result would notice the occasional station wagon barreling down on me on the side streets while I was doing a blistering 25mph! | ||
| Marcus Mayeux (Mmayeux73)
Junior Member Username: Mmayeux73 Post Number: 108 Registered: 4-2002 |
Well, we can go for that but in a Ferrari j/k -no offense to anyone | ||
| Marcus Mayeux (Mmayeux73)
Junior Member Username: Mmayeux73 Post Number: 107 Registered: 4-2002 |
For me it was a 1980 308 red w/ black interior. I did not get to drive it and I still have not had the chance to drive one but when I do...it will be all over! Ferrari Joe, 246GT Dino, man that must have been an awesome experience! | ||
| bruce wellington (Bws88tr)
Junior Member Username: Bws88tr Post Number: 202 Registered: 4-2002 |
hey marcus when i read this thread from the directory, i thought when you asked "when was your first" i thought of something else.. , maybe other guys thought the same thing.. | ||
| David Albright (Dalbright)
Member Username: Dalbright Post Number: 312 Registered: 2-2001 |
first ride - 198? gts turbo in Italy in 1992 first drive - 1987 328gts in Virginia in 1998 first ownership - 1990 348ts bought in 2000 | ||
| Frank Parker (Parkerfe)
Member Username: Parkerfe Post Number: 848 Registered: 9-2001 |
1986 328GTS. I liked it so much I bought it ! | ||
| J. Grande (Jay)
Member Username: Jay Post Number: 348 Registered: 10-2001 |
Mondial Cab 3.2 on my wedding day. | ||
| F-J'87EuroTR (Ferrarijoe)
Junior Member Username: Ferrarijoe Post Number: 161 Registered: 5-2001 |
'72 246GT Dino silver/black. It was a freind of mines back in the early 80's. I drove it from Chicago to Detroit. It made quite an impression on me. | ||
| Marcus Mayeux (Mmayeux73)
Junior Member Username: Mmayeux73 Post Number: 106 Registered: 4-2002 |
Ferrari that you drove and/or rode in? Name model, color, and year...bored at work here... |