| Author | Message | ||
| William H (Countachxx)
Advanced Member Username: Countachxx Post Number: 3318 Registered: 2-2001 |
JT, that is pretty cool but I'd rather do it in my own 512TR & if you could combine that with a http://www.Carguytour.com it would be awesome  | ||
| JT (Mightymagician)
Junior Member Username: Mightymagician Post Number: 175 Registered: 11-2002 |
http://www.adren-a-line.com/adren/FIdesc.html | ||
| Dave Wapinski (Davewapinski)
Member Username: Davewapinski Post Number: 631 Registered: 8-2001 |
The next trip! | ||
| N'din (Abangdin)
Junior Member Username: Abangdin Post Number: 90 Registered: 7-2003 |
Driving Michael in my F355 in 1999 ? Not many people can say they have driven Michael. | ||
| Jordan Witherspoon (Jordan747_400)
Intermediate Member Username: Jordan747_400 Post Number: 2169 Registered: 12-2002 |
Ok Frank, Im with you on that one. You drive the car, Ill fly you anywhere you want on the jet | ||
| William H (Countachxx)
Advanced Member Username: Countachxx Post Number: 3314 Registered: 2-2001 |
Passing the bar & giving myself an F40 LM as a present would be pretty cool too | ||
| William H (Countachxx)
Advanced Member Username: Countachxx Post Number: 3313 Registered: 2-2001 |
Winning a national championship in my 512TR race car  | ||
| Frank K Lipinski (Kaz)
Member Username: Kaz Post Number: 394 Registered: 11-2002 |
THIS.........  | ||
| Jordan Witherspoon (Jordan747_400)
Intermediate Member Username: Jordan747_400 Post Number: 2164 Registered: 12-2002 |
Ok DES, I supposed you cna kidnap me...can you be here around 8pm? You know where the spare key is...Ill be waiting for ya! | ||
| Barry Wolinsky (308gtb)
Member Username: 308gtb Post Number: 704 Registered: 2-2002 |
Andrew, It's interesting that you posted that picture of the Monaco Tunnel. The day I bought and drove my GTB home I had to negotiate the Cross Bronx Expressway. The tunnel under the Grand Concourse turned into that tunnel in Monaco for me. A Ferrari will do that to ya, I reckon. Barry | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Senior Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 7074 Registered: 8-2002 |
William, wow...! That's a helluva compliment, thanks...! i'd love to write for a magazine... i need a little "me" to put some stuff together to send in to some publications... | ||
| William Henderson (Billh)
Junior Member Username: Billh Post Number: 101 Registered: 5-2002 |
Holy crap. DES, for about as long as it took to read your snippet, I was the guy picking up the car! totally got sucked in to your writing. I absolutely can identify with your passion. you captured the very essence of everything Ferrari. If you could write for any ferrari mag and capture your honest impressions on paper creatively, It would be a big hit. Just dont get too jaded. | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Senior Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 7071 Registered: 8-2002 |
David, thanks... Dino, you had your story published in Prancing Horse...? Awesome...! | ||
| Dino Micalizio (Ingenere)
Junior Member Username: Ingenere Post Number: 74 Registered: 12-2001 |
I purchased my TR from a great guy in Menomene, MI....and drove cross country to Tempe, AZ. A great car...and a great country. I stayed on the back roads and saw all the little towns (except for the freeway in S Dakota where I saw 178 on the speedo)...The Ferrari made more friends and started more conversations everywhere I went....definitely a ride I will never forget. The complete story is in Prancing Horse #112 | ||
| Dino Micalizio (Ingenere)
Junior Member Username: Ingenere Post Number: 73 Registered: 12-2001 |
I purchased my TR from a great guy in Menomene, MI....and drove cross country to Tempe, AZ. A great car...and a great country. I stayed on the back roads and saw all the little towns (except for the freeway in S Dakota where I saw 178 on the speedo)...The Ferrari made more friends and started more conversations everywhere I went....definitely a ride I will never forget. The complete story is in Prancing Horse #112 | ||
| David N (Nboy)
New member Username: Nboy Post Number: 18 Registered: 7-2003 |
WM, looks like you've had more stories than most - good show - I want to be you when I grow up. Gregory, looks like you had a wonderful time - being in the right place at the right time is everything. Andrew, I'm glad to hear you had the chance to do the trip - I did the Italian part many times, and its one of the best to ever do in a car! I guess the true stories are better than the imaginary ones, although DES, your story was pretty cool. David | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Senior Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 7061 Registered: 8-2002 |
LOL, Dan, that's so tyical, that would definitely happen to me... Thanks for the compliments, everyone, i really appreciate it... i'd love to write for a magazine, especially Forza or some other Ferrari-related publication - and yes, i'm serious about that... Very serious. Byron & Brian, i guess you guys are right about excluding all of mankind - i just needed an ending and was in a hurry... i could never drive around in a Ferrari without The Bird... i would drive all over the country, though; i'd have to go show my friends my new car, let them take it for riDES, the whole nine... Along the way, i'd stop to meet all the chatters i've not yet met before... i'd even kidnap Jordan, too... | ||
| Guillaume (Vancooper)
Junior Member Username: Vancooper Post Number: 116 Registered: 10-2002 |
Dan, I do not want to hijack this thread but didn't I see you mention somewhere that you had to replace the parking brake in your most recent service? Anyways, for the sake of this thread I did drive from The French Alps into southern France then east onto Cannes, Nice and did part of the famous Formula 1 course in Monaco. Then I took off in direction of Italy all the way up to Torino and then in the Aosta Valley, under the Mont-Blanc and finally back into Chamonix! The only bad part about it is that I was driving a rental Renault Clio! I can only imagine what it would be like in a 550 Maranello...black or red preferably! | ||
| Andrew Menasce (Amenasce)
Intermediate Member Username: Amenasce Post Number: 1560 Registered: 10-2001 |
Great stories ! Please continue to add ! Its thrilling and motivating | ||
| PlayersMarkus (Playersmarkus)
Junior Member Username: Playersmarkus Post Number: 158 Registered: 10-2002 |
PLAYERSRUN !!! ...ask anyone of the Ferraris who did it ;O) Markus Playersrun.com | ||
| Brian Kennedy (Kennedy)
Member Username: Kennedy Post Number: 444 Registered: 3-2002 |
> Well, no one can match DES's story, Well, except for the "last person who ever saw me" thing. I love Ferraris, but not to the exclusion of mankind (particularly the womankind part of mankind ). | ||
| Byron Faber (Adrenln328)
New member Username: Adrenln328 Post Number: 48 Registered: 9-2003 |
Well, no one can match DES's story, but mine would include a nice red car, a beautiful loving lady who appreicates Ferraris, and a long drive on a road without traffic & with some great curves & long open areas.... | ||
| wm hart (Whart)
Intermediate Member Username: Whart Post Number: 1677 Registered: 12-2001 |
I've had few. And hope to have more. For example, i had just finished working a weeklong stint in LA for a client based there, and returned to my hotel to be greeted by a call that my 550 had just arrived at FoBH, having been shipped a week earlier from NY. I got a little help from the concierge to make last minute reserves at the Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur, and spent the next four days, with an old buddy, romping up and down the PCH, off-season with nary a car or motorhome in sight. (There was one stoner in an old microbus who refused to pull to the layby, but other than that, it was clear sailing, along one of the most beautiful roads in the world, day after day). The Post Ranch is an extraordinary getaway for those of you unfamiliar with it, with first class "shacks" of glass and steel propped up along the edge of the cliffs facing the ocean, a brilliant restaurant and wine cellar, an enforced no children policy, and every amenity.Off season, it was even better, as were the roads, just before the rainy season set in. I also have fond memories of hopping off a plane at Kennedy airport after a few weeks business overseas, running home to shower and change, then hopping into a limo to be driven down to Phila. to pick up my then brand new 355 GTS paddle car. The drive home to NY was sublime, i was a little spaced-out from the travel, and the adrenline just wouldn't stop surging. Then there was the time i raced a Daytona in my 512 BBi, and pulled past him at 140mph, the exhaust note changing to a full throated shriek... Or the time i waited for delivery of the black barchetta to my house and watched the open truck turn the corner with that gleaming beast. Watching it offload, and then pull into my driveway stoked me for a drive i couldn't wait to begin. I signed a few papers, watched the truck pull away, and Liz and i hopped into the car for an afternoon drive in the country. Or the time the Road & Track guys showed up at my house for 3 days of testing and photography in sublime autumn weather... | ||
| Gregory (Prugna_328)
Junior Member Username: Prugna_328 Post Number: 63 Registered: 9-2003 |
Back in 97-98, Oh I don't remember the year exactly, I went to Italy for 9 days. No wife, no kids. Just me and a friend who is also A Ferrari nut. Spent some time in Milan. Next stop? Modena of course. Toured the factory and met a friendly American who worked for Ferrari. He was great. Brought out for us all kinds of cool items. Keychains, etc. After the tour was over I said to him we would have to came back the next day. He asked why. I said the museum across the street was closed today and I really wanted to see it. NO PROBLEM!!! A quick phone call and he said go across the street they will open it for you. This was getting better all the time I had the whole place to myself. Just me and an unbelievable collection of Ferraris. While I was touring the factory I was walking from one building to another in a small street between two buildings and all of a sudden a 550 comes ripping around the corner. I was so surprised I didn't know if I should step forward or backwards. Not wanting to do what I call the squirrel and get wacked by a 550 I just froze in my tracks and the 550 went right around me within inches, like a cone set up at an autcross. The hair stood up on the back of my neck!! One last thing, I was walking down the street in front of the factory and a car with all kinds of wires hanging out of the wheelwells and strange body panels onit appeared. I got some great pictures. Turned out to be the 360 when it was being developed. Great close ups. It had already been in the magazines but far off shots on the test track. Not close ups like I got. Great time. want to do it again. My second trip was almost as good. I was touring Ducati and out of the blue some English guys invited me to tour Lamborghini. Stepped in it again. Funny my luck usually isnt that good. | ||
| Jordan Witherspoon (Jordan747_400)
Intermediate Member Username: Jordan747_400 Post Number: 2154 Registered: 12-2002 |
Dan, dont know if DES would go for it, but if not Ill kidnap him and force him to write anyway | ||
| Dan (Bobafett)
Intermediate Member Username: Bobafett Post Number: 1542 Registered: 9-2002 |
Jordan, If DES is serious, I don't know anyone who is at Forza now, but the co-founder is a friend. --Dan | ||
| Andrew Menasce (Amenasce)
Intermediate Member Username: Amenasce Post Number: 1551 Registered: 10-2001 |
DES , thats just the beginning of the trip ...we want to know where , with whom etc... | ||
| Jordan Witherspoon (Jordan747_400)
Intermediate Member Username: Jordan747_400 Post Number: 2151 Registered: 12-2002 |
Dan thats a great idea! I can easily see Forza giving DES a column every other issue or so...He would have written great articles about the FDC events in SoCal and riding in all teh east coasters Ferraris | ||
| Dan (Bobafett)
Intermediate Member Username: Bobafett Post Number: 1539 Registered: 9-2002 |
...Until I ran out of gas 20 miles down! Seriously DES...you should submit something to Forza or the like. Maybe they'll start a column. THAT would be amusing --Dan | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Senior Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 7059 Registered: 8-2002 |
"Whispered shuffles lightly rippled a crepuscular quietude. The air was cool but dry. i dragged deeply from my cigarette then French inhaled the thick, menthol smoke, awakening my nose. There i stood, in the vast parking lot of Wide World Of Cars, patiently enjoying time's relativity. The night was dark but darker still was the bowels of the garage. i futilely gazed into the unlit abyss. All was quiet. Until it came alive... A growl rumbled to life, scything through the night, penetrating my chest with anticipation so pure, it was almost like fear. It was Sal. He dipped the throttle, this time the engine snarled louder, more ferociously. Out of the blackness of the garage, the sound resonated through the air. It suddenly, slowly began moving closer. A black nose emerged. It got wider until it was the front of the car. In another moment, the whole car was out of the garage, sitting in the lot; an idling arpeggio whose notes danced wildly throughout my soul. My black Ferrari Enzo had finally arrived. Sal went to great lengths to ensure my privacy and picking it up late at night was perfect. i was very appreciative. i think it helped that we were introduced by James Glickenhaus, too. We exchanged pleasantries and he bid me good luck and happy times in my new Ferrari. i flicked my cigarette and slowly eased myself into the driver's seat. The black, carbon fiber interior was such a contrastingly calm DESign, complimenting such an intense car. i reached for the door handle and pulled it down, sealing myself inside my dream. It was finally a reality. i sat motionless for a moment, my hands hesitating to touch the steering wheel. My leather Ferrari driving gloves ached to wrap around the wheel, to connect, to initiate, to go! i smiled and held back tears as my eyes began to water. i took a deep breath. In... out. i was as ready as i could ever be. i dipped the throttle, letting the engine bite into the night, warning all of existence that i was coming. My right-hand fingers, taut in leather, pulled on the right lever behind the wheel. As i slowly rolled away, i beeped the horn and waved to Sal. He was the last person who ever saw me. | ||
| Dan (Bobafett)
Intermediate Member Username: Bobafett Post Number: 1528 Registered: 9-2002 |
David, the girls in St. Tropez are fine for me. --Dan | ||
| Andrew Menasce (Amenasce)
Intermediate Member Username: Amenasce Post Number: 1547 Registered: 10-2001 |
David , i also did this trip well half of it , i stopped in Monaco.But with my Alfa and with a friend. Next time maybe everything will be perfect | ||
| Andrew Menasce (Amenasce)
Intermediate Member Username: Amenasce Post Number: 1546 Registered: 10-2001 |
Dan i dont mind doing it a first time with a friend ! I swear ! . | ||
| David N (Nboy)
New member Username: Nboy Post Number: 17 Registered: 7-2003 |
Jay, your trip sounds awesome, so we better see some pictures after already mentioning them. Andrew, I share your dream trip. I actually did this trip, and hit every interesting place between Amalfi and St. Tropez on the coast. Unfortunately, I didn't have a Ferrari then, so now I have to do it again in my 355! For anyone who wants to know, Andrew's trip is the best trip anyone can do in any car, Ferrari or not, but I imagine best of all in a Ferrari spider. And for the record, you need a girl along for the ride, because showing up in Positano, Portofino, Monaco or St. Tropez alone is not near as much fun. David | ||
| Dan (Bobafett)
Intermediate Member Username: Bobafett Post Number: 1520 Registered: 9-2002 |
Andrew, How is next week looking for you? Car is just getting detailed, accomodations are ready. Oh, you wanted a girl...hmm...well, in that case, I like my idea best. --Dan | ||
| Andrew Menasce (Amenasce)
Intermediate Member Username: Amenasce Post Number: 1545 Registered: 10-2001 |
Greg . Something to do before i die ! | ||
| Greg G (Greg_g)
Junior Member Username: Greg_g Post Number: 97 Registered: 7-2003 |
Hmmm, sounds great Andrew! | ||
| Andrew Menasce (Amenasce)
Intermediate Member Username: Amenasce Post Number: 1540 Registered: 10-2001 |
Wow no one mentioned a ride with a girl yet ! What about going from Paris to the south of Italy stopping in Le Mans (Visit of the Museum), Mas Du Clos (Visit of Bardinon's Collection), Marseille (Visit of the old town), Cassis (Gorgeous pictures by the bay), St Tropez (Drive by on the hardbor), Nice (Drive on the Promenades des Anglais), Monaco (Just to open the throttle on that tunnel) then off to Italy stopping in Torino ( Visit of the town), Venezia (although cars arent allowed), Modena, Maranello (Factory Tour), Bologna, Firenze (Visito f the town) then off to the Amalfi coast and to Napoli and maybe take the car to Capri... About the car ? It would have to be a V12.Either a 250 SWB California or a 550 Barchetta with Tubis. Ah yes...  Cassis  Monaco Tunnel  Amalfi Coast  St Tropez   | ||
| BJ (Bjkim)
Junior Member Username: Bjkim Post Number: 144 Registered: 10-2002 |
95 F355 GTS with TUBI, any road tunnels, any place, with my father. | ||
| Dan (Bobafett)
Intermediate Member Username: Bobafett Post Number: 1513 Registered: 9-2002 |
You boys are gonna be waiting a while for that 100th. After all, wasn't the 50th in 95? --Dan | ||
| Rikky Alessi (Ralessi)
Member Username: Ralessi Post Number: 403 Registered: 5-2002 |
Wow Jordan, that is a great idea. I am with you on that one (and I am being serious). We can drive together if you would like the company (I would have my own car, of course ) It would be a blast. What year would the 100th be? | ||
| James Glickenhaus (Napolis)
Advanced Member Username: Napolis Post Number: 2740 Registered: 10-2002 |
IMHO the greatest Ferrari drive of all time remains Mr. Chinetti's first win at LeMans for Ferrari. He drove 23.5 of the 24 hours stopping only to shave so he would look presentable as he took the checker. The one I personally remember was Boston to NY in 2 hours in a 275GTB. It was the day they lowered the national speed limit to 55. I kind of looked at it as a protest against tyrannie. | ||
| Dan (Bobafett)
Intermediate Member Username: Bobafett Post Number: 1510 Registered: 9-2002 |
Guillaume: if you take Jason, make sure he sees the big red light on the dash! --Dan | ||
| Guillaume (Vancooper)
Junior Member Username: Vancooper Post Number: 114 Registered: 10-2002 |
Driving a 550 Maranello on the Autostrada del Fiori in southern Italy on the mediteranean coast | ||
| Santini (Santini)
New member Username: Santini Post Number: 19 Registered: 10-2003 |
Driving my 1st Ferrari from whomever/wherever I bought it, home. | ||
| Jay P. Ross (Eilig)
Member Username: Eilig Post Number: 279 Registered: 8-2001 |
In actuality, I had originally scheduled to spend the time in the 360 Coupe. But when I took delivery of the car, the third gear syncro was just about out, so they upgraded me FREE to the 360 Spider. At first I wasn't too happy about this, because I like the lightness of the Coupe and feared there would be some cowl shake in the Spider. But after spending a few days in the Spider, I really fell in love with it. Especially when the sun was warm and I was able to do some top-down driving in the mountains. I now have a whole new appreciation for Spiders! | ||
| Brian Kennedy (Kennedy)
Member Username: Kennedy Post Number: 434 Registered: 3-2002 |
Damn, Jay... the truth *is* always better than fiction! | ||
| Vince (Manatee)
Member Username: Manatee Post Number: 351 Registered: 6-2002 |
Being crowned F1 World Champion for the seventh year in row driving for Ferrari. Sporting director is Michael Schumacher. He tells me that I'm the best driver ever for Ferrari. Signs me to a life long contract. | ||
| Jay P. Ross (Eilig)
Member Username: Eilig Post Number: 278 Registered: 8-2001 |
I think I just had mine... Rented a 575M F1 from European Ferrari Rental for 3 days and hit 300 km/hour for the first time in my life on the German Autobahn. Then got a ride in their new Enzo on the Autobahn and hit 275 km/hour and enjoyed every second of it. Then rented their 360 Spider 6 speed and spent a week driving through the Swiss, Bavarian, and Austrian Alps. Then drove down to Maranello and saw the 460GT test mule, and watched a new 360 Stradale run laps along with an Enzo at Fiorano. Also saw a 250 California Spider running laps concurrently with the Enzo. I just took my FIFTEEN roles of film in for developing and can't wait to see them tomorrow! | ||
| Dale W Spradling (Drtax)
Member Username: Drtax Post Number: 443 Registered: 4-2003 |
Driving my Maranello from Key West (where I was born) to Alaska. Then shipping the car down to San Diego and then driving to Maine. Dale | ||
| Brian Kennedy (Kennedy)
Member Username: Kennedy Post Number: 433 Registered: 3-2002 |
Good start, Vince, but he said 'ultimate'... After a Tuesday Factory Tour where I see my Challenge Stradale finish up, I meet Barrichello Wednesday morning for my first day of instruction at Fiorano. We take turns driving/riding in their Stradale's (no need to put extra miles on mine yet). Last session of the day in mine... Barrichello signs the dash. Thursday is a repeat of Wednesday but Schumacher is teaching/riding/driving/signing. Friday is a near repeat of Thursday, but this time with one of their F1 cars. Complete with learning launch control and one real-speed pit stop. Of course, the evenings on each of those days are spent dining at great Italian restaurants with my wife, my instructor for that day, his guest, and on different days Jean Todt, Luca di Montezemolo, and hmmmm... lots of good options for that third night. Of course then I cruise around Italy until the next week where we end up at the next F1 race where I have a full pit pass. The trip ends with a 1-2 Ferrari win and I catch one of the champagne bottles that they toss down... during that week my CS was headed back to my house where it is waiting for me when I arrive back home. Yep, that sounds about right. | ||
| Jordan Witherspoon (Jordan747_400)
Intermediate Member Username: Jordan747_400 Post Number: 2149 Registered: 12-2002 |
Ive got an interesting goal...and its one I actually plan to accomplish in my lifetime! Anyway, I will hopefully be around for Ferraris 100th anniversary...with quite a few Ferraris myself by then; and to celebrate, I am going to drive one of my Ferraris from LA-New York. Then I will put it on a boat to England, pick it up in London, and drive it across Europe to Maranello for the big anniversary party. I will find the best roads across the continents and drive them the way Enzo intended. ' I dont think my trip will work with a passenger...First off, I gotta put my luggage somewhere! Secondly, They might not have the same passion for the trip as me, and they will add weight through the corners However, Ill pick up any Fchatter for some of the legs. As for the car, anything Ferrari will work for me. Though I supposed I would love to do it in my dream Ferrari -the F40. That will be fun, indeed...but my best Ferrari experience is going to be something else. I have had the opportunity to ride in many member's Ferraris and to thank them for their kindness and friendship, they will ride in (and drive) mine! Dinner is on me that night as well. Just give me 10 years! | ||
| Dan (Bobafett)
Intermediate Member Username: Bobafett Post Number: 1508 Registered: 9-2002 |
A hostile takeover of the company once Maserati flops terribly. --Dan | ||
| Dom Vitarella (Dom)
Member Username: Dom Post Number: 482 Registered: 11-2002 |
There is in a GT4... | ||
| Frank K Lipinski (Kaz)
Member Username: Kaz Post Number: 376 Registered: 11-2002 |
Unfortunately, it will never happen because there's no back seat....Oh well... | ||
| Vince (Manatee)
Member Username: Manatee Post Number: 350 Registered: 6-2002 |
Picking up my own personal Enzo Ferrari at the factory from Michael Schumacher. Can't get much better than that. | ||
| Andrew Menasce (Amenasce)
Intermediate Member Username: Amenasce Post Number: 1539 Registered: 10-2001 |
Mention the car , the roads , the places , the persons ... |