| Author | Message | ||
| Marcus Mayeux (Mmayeux73)
Member Username: Mmayeux73 Post Number: 443 Registered: 4-2002 |
I do not as of right now, so do not feel left out. I am here to learn as much as I can from a bunch of great owners, so I can do the same for someone else! | ||
| Fred (I Luv 4REs) (Iluv4res)
Member Username: Iluv4res Post Number: 406 Registered: 8-2002 |
Steve, I feel like my name/handle has been somewhat hi-jacked! My name = ILuv4Res Anyways, welcome! This is a great place for owners and aspiring owners alike. Great place for info that can help you in your F-car search as well as once you finally do it! | ||
| Carl Roberts (Carl63_99)
Junior Member Username: Carl63_99 Post Number: 79 Registered: 10-2001 |
I personally own several Ferrari's, and have parts and bodies and a couple complete engines lying around. Of course, all this is 1/24th scale stuff. Someday I may opt for the 1/1 scale, but for now, I don't feel guilty chopping the top off a car when it only cost me $3. C | ||
| David A. Spear (Detailman)
Junior Member Username: Detailman Post Number: 102 Registered: 5-2002 |
I felt left out for a while and after about three months of visiting this site I fianaly was convinced that it was time to buy one, I thought it was an over priced toy and not worth having but mine has been very enjoyable and not as much expence as I thought at first. | ||
| Paul Bianco (Paulie_b)
Junior Member Username: Paulie_b Post Number: 220 Registered: 1-2003 |
its a mixed bag of readers. | ||
| GThomas (Ferrariartist)
Junior Member Username: Ferrariartist Post Number: 138 Registered: 2-2003 |
i dont own one. just a die-hard enthusies.. enthucieti... enthoosi i like 'em alot. GT | ||
| yasir saifullah (Yasir)
New member Username: Yasir Post Number: 31 Registered: 7-2002 |
Steve, It's all about dreams and setting goals in life.I'm in my mid 30's and ever since my high school days i have fancied 2 cars,a Porsche ( flared fenders & a whale tail) & a Ferrari 328 GTS.The frustrating thing is i have no problem buying one,but dang the maintanence & the priority thing in life is keeping me from buying them. Anyway i think in 2-4 years i should be able to buy a 355 berlinetta ( spelling ?)until then i'll keep dreaming and keep reading about the car. Later, Yasir | ||
| Dr Tommy Cosgrove (Vwalfa4re)
Intermediate Member Username: Vwalfa4re Post Number: 1200 Registered: 5-2001 |
I was terrible in math. | ||
| Patrick Denonville (Arizonaguy)
Junior Member Username: Arizonaguy Post Number: 163 Registered: 4-2003 |
ModMan, I'm on Lambo chat aswell, may not see me since I don't post much... I do know Allan. Peter, I stay away from drugs, have never done them due to loosing 9 friends in 3 years to them. Math is the only class I have a problem in and it really sucks. | ||
| PeterS (Peters)
Member Username: Peters Post Number: 595 Registered: 1-2003 |
Patrick...You are correct, you can only have so much when your 14. When I was 14, I had goals of being the best sales person on earth! I started when I was 10, in a music store for 4 years..Every day after school! My mentor was Evelyn, a great lady that let me hide in the shadows and listen to her sell a piano. At age 12, I was selling Yamaha grand pianos to people three times my age (and up)! You need to focus on 1) Being a kid (for now) 2) Choose your friends well 3) Stay away from drugs and 4)Do well in school, especially math. Do all of this and you will go very far in life! I am now 44 and still love sales. It has brought me everything I ever wanted. Above all, always give in life. You will get it back tenfold  | ||
| Modified348ts (Modman)
Member Username: Modman Post Number: 619 Registered: 11-2001 |
It usually goes that way... Wazzup Arizonaguy! you must know Allen as he resides in Arizona. 14 years old, good man, starting young, you'll be getting what you want if you keep your goals at it. | ||
| PeterS (Peters)
Member Username: Peters Post Number: 592 Registered: 1-2003 |
This is the best place in the world for non-Fcar owners! I see that the owners (on this forum)are especially kind to non owners, as someday soon, they will probably own one. PLEASE!!! Don't feel left out! You are family here | ||
| Patrick Denonville (Arizonaguy)
Junior Member Username: Arizonaguy Post Number: 162 Registered: 4-2003 |
I'm a fan too...Only die cast for now, can only have so much when your 14. | ||
| Brad Taylor (Btaylor74)
New member Username: Btaylor74 Post Number: 14 Registered: 5-2003 |
I'd like to, but when I click on "Load" for the attachment, nothing happens | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Advanced Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 4474 Registered: 8-2002 |
Brad, PICTURES...! Please... Oh, and congratulations... | ||
| Brad Taylor (Btaylor74)
New member Username: Btaylor74 Post Number: 12 Registered: 5-2003 |
Steve, Until a week ago Thursday I was watching the Ferrari game from the sidelines. Now I have an '86 328 GTS. I traded a gentleman my 1963 Austin-Healey plus some $$$ for his 328. Now I've owned two cars of my dreams. I would have liked to have kept the Healey but garage space and my wallet said no. | ||
| Modified348ts (Modman)
Member Username: Modman Post Number: 612 Registered: 11-2001 |
Even former Ferrari owners like I still like them, I'm going to get another one in the near future but want to see what the next new model is going to be like. | ||
| Adam R (Arymarcz)
Junior Member Username: Arymarcz Post Number: 97 Registered: 8-2002 |
I don't have one, but I love looking at them. I've been thinking about buying one for about onemillionyears, but I'm kinda lazy with maintenance and get pissed when things don't work, so me and ownership may not be a good mix. | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Advanced Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 4463 Registered: 8-2002 |
Here' a thread that indirectly touches on what ages might be for some of the members here... This could get interesting, but in some cases, very misleading... | ||
| J Michael Jordan (Fonce_r_cheval)
Junior Member Username: Fonce_r_cheval Post Number: 87 Registered: 11-2002 |
Arlie, I like your story. On a very cold morning I had a similar problem in a Pinto--Result a siezed engine and a new car. My intro to Ferraris was at approx. age ten when I saw the Cagney movie, "Never Steal Anything Small". We could start a thread about who's the oldest here.... | ||
| Dr Tommy Cosgrove (Vwalfa4re)
Intermediate Member Username: Vwalfa4re Post Number: 1199 Registered: 5-2001 |
Ok, now, I was being serious! No kidding. | ||
| Horsefly (Arlie)
Intermediate Member Username: Arlie Post Number: 1219 Registered: 5-2002 |
I must have missed Magnum that night. It was late 1980 when I was driving my '72 Chevelle home from a friend's house after an evening of listening to Pink Floyd, hanging out, and being unemployed. That evening we proved that a stereo speaker rated for 50 watts ACTUALLY means 50 watts. It couldn't take any more and blew the cone! Anyway, while driving the '72 Chevelle mosquito defogger home, (so named because of smoke belching exhause due to worn valve guides), I became aware of the fact that I was doing nearly 40 MPH with my foot off the accelerator. Apparently the carb linkage had gummed up and wouldn't close the throttle plates completely. So at every stop sign, I would have to brake as hard as I could on the manual brakes to slow down, then shift auto trans to neutral BRIEFLY in order to stop. Naturally the motor was winding out as I shifted to neutral. Then back to drive with a jolt and take off with no application of throttle pedal. An eventful ride home. The next day, a liberal shower of GumOut carb cleaner freed everything up until the next ride. Obviously, no Ferrari for me back then. (or today either.) | ||
| Dr Tommy Cosgrove (Vwalfa4re)
Intermediate Member Username: Vwalfa4re Post Number: 1198 Registered: 5-2001 |
David - If the Magnum thing gives your age away then I really feel old. I remember watching the pilot episode the very first night it came on. It was the Ferrari that got me in front of the TV. On the previews it showed the 308 backing up with a close up on the passenger side taillights. I was pretty sure it was a Ferrari so I made sure I was watching that Thurs night way back in 7th grade. Man, that was a long time ago. I do not know why but I remember that whole evening like it was yesterday. I mean everything, like being at the supermarket with my mom and sitting in the livingroom with my dad when it was on. It was Christmas season 1980 and I had the Sears Christmas catalog (no kidding) out that evening too. | ||
| Jeffrey Wolfe (86mondial32)
New member Username: 86mondial32 Post Number: 21 Registered: 5-2003 |
I did it ass backwards. A couple of maseratis first( Merak and GASP.. a Biturbo) and then a Ferrari. But have owned sports and exotics all my adult life. | ||
| Kendall Kim (Kenny)
New member Username: Kenny Post Number: 34 Registered: 9-2001 |
I don't have one either, and I been trolling this board for almost 2 years now... (look at my first registered date) So you guys shouldn't feel bad... Heck, getting through and paying for grad school/living expenses is a struggle as it is... | ||
| Hans E. Hansen (4re_gt4)
Intermediate Member Username: 4re_gt4 Post Number: 1447 Registered: 4-2002 |
I don't have one either. Just a GT4.  But I DO have Ferrari-sized repair bills! | ||
| Willis Huang (Willis360)
Intermediate Member Username: Willis360 Post Number: 1275 Registered: 8-2001 |
Scott, how about a picture of your new Maserati Spyder? | ||
| Michael Yurinko (Gage)
Junior Member Username: Gage Post Number: 52 Registered: 8-2002 |
Dave don't feel bad about Magnum. That's where I first learned about Ferrari's. I was hooked ever since. I don't own one yet. I plan on buying one when my movie sells. In the mean time, the closest I could get was a 91 Toyota MR2. I know, but at least it's mid-engined. | ||
| Erik (Teenferrarifan)
Junior Member Username: Teenferrarifan Post Number: 152 Registered: 2-2003 |
Don't worry about it. I don't own a ferrari and I am not ordering one at this time either . This board is however a great place to talk with and learn about ferrari's whether you own one or not the information you get here is beneficial. Don't be ashamed that you don't own one, and remember here you don't just get one persons opinion on a matter you get hundreds. Just look at the "driving around at high rpm's" thread from a while ago. I have always loved ferrari's and have always read everything I came across about them; however, since I joined this chat I have learned more then I ever imagined and even little things that you couldn't even read about. Just remember everyone here has one thing in common they all are car enthusiasts whether f-car or not they all like cars. Erik | ||
| Scott A. B. Collins (Scott)
Junior Member Username: Scott Post Number: 150 Registered: 6-2001 |
Welcome to the board. I've lusted after Ferraris since I was 16, got one when I was 40. Plus, you will meet nice folks, and if you take Willis' suggestion and join a club, you can participate in many Ferrari events, which leads to rides, which might lead to driving, which helps ease the pain on not owning a least a bit. | ||
| L. Wayne Ausbrooks (Lwausbrooks)
Intermediate Member Username: Lwausbrooks Post Number: 1783 Registered: 8-2002 |
Steve, don't feel left out. I don't own a Ferrari and have no immediate plans to purchase one. There's nothing wrong with being a non-owner enthusiast. | ||
| Dr Tommy Cosgrove (Vwalfa4re)
Intermediate Member Username: Vwalfa4re Post Number: 1196 Registered: 5-2001 |
I have one BUT, I joined the FCA when I was in college just to hang around them. I didn't get mine till 6 years after I joined. | ||
| JT (Mightymagician)
Junior Member Username: Mightymagician Post Number: 54 Registered: 11-2002 |
Don't feel left out. I dont own one. never had a ride in one. And before i moved to Atlanta, i would drive 5 hours from florida to ferrari challenge events just to see them. | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Advanced Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 4409 Registered: 8-2002 |
LMAO, Bruce...! Steve, don't feel left out; many people here don't own Ferraris - many of the non-owners aren't even on a list, waiting for one or even considering putting their names on lists... Ferrari is so much more than ownership; i never knew that until i came here, but wow - there's so much to learn, so much to know; i'm glad i didn't have a Ferrari last year or the year before - i wouldn't have known any of the stuff i know now... Hang around here, it'll be the best thing you ever did; it's the best thing i ever did... | ||
| Terry Springer (Tspringer)
Member Username: Tspringer Post Number: 556 Registered: 4-2002 |
I was a f-chatter before I was a Ferrari owner. If anyone is attempting to treat me any differently on the site since becoming an owner, they are failing miserably! Clearly ownership of an F-car is not necessarily required proof for being an F-car fanatic! Have fun! | ||
| Andrew Menasce (Amenasce)
Intermediate Member Username: Amenasce Post Number: 1066 Registered: 10-2001 |
I dont . Dont own one and am not ordering one .. | ||
| Steve (I_love_ferraris)
New member Username: I_love_ferraris Post Number: 6 Registered: 6-2003 |
This is to Craig A. You asked me how I felt about women and Ferrari's. I think that it's great. I have never seen a woman driving a Ferrari because of where I live. We don't really see many Ferrari's at all. But to your question I think that more woman should own Ferrari's not only because it takes off the image of Ferrari being a man's car. But it also I like the idea because I think that women should be able to experience the same things as men. I.e driving Ferrari's, riding motorcycles, eating like pigs (sometimes) etc. | ||
| David Stoeppelwerth (Racerdj)
Member Username: Racerdj Post Number: 259 Registered: 1-2003 |
Maybe if they had watched more Magimum PI they would not be on Lambo, Porsche, Vette, Supra, and Viper boards and instead be F car enthusiasts! I guess the Magimum PI thing gives my age away. | ||
| Pat Pasqualini (Enzo)
Member Username: Enzo Post Number: 539 Registered: 2-2002 |
I don't have one either so don't feel bad just keep dreaming and one day you will have one | ||
| Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
Board Administrator Username: Rob328gts Post Number: 5152 Registered: 12-2000 |
We're all enthusiasts, that's what we have in common. Well, all except a couple a$$clowns (Thanks Dave!) that waste their time on FerrariChat.com instead of the Lambo, Porsche, Vette, Supra, and Viper boards. Many of us are enthusiasts of all these cars, but those few will do anything to put a Ferrari down. It's their misguided hobby driven by deep rooted feelings of inadequacy and unhappy childhoods.  | ||
| Ken (Allyn)
Member Username: Allyn Post Number: 957 Registered: 10-2001 |
Not exactly 'all'. I have a 31 year old Lotus and will probably buy a Ferrari after I get a new house with a 4 car garage. I'm just a big fan. | ||
| David Stoeppelwerth (Racerdj)
Member Username: Racerdj Post Number: 258 Registered: 1-2003 |
I own one and wish I had found out about this site before I purchased. Welcome to this site and with a name like yours, you are at the right spot. I wanted to buy a Ferrari even before Al Gore invented the internet! | ||
| Craig A (Milo)
Junior Member Username: Milo Post Number: 213 Registered: 4-2003 |
Steve, How do you feel about women owning Ferrari's? | ||
| Willis Huang (Willis360)
Intermediate Member Username: Willis360 Post Number: 1272 Registered: 8-2001 |
Most users on this site are Ferrari owners. However, non-owner enthusiasts are most certainly welcome. Just be yourself. For more fun and excitement, join your local FCA chapter (ownership not necessary). | ||
| Bruce Wellington (Bws88tr)
Intermediate Member Username: Bws88tr Post Number: 1921 Registered: 4-2002 |
DONT FEEL LEFT OUT...SPEAK TO DES... | ||
| Horsefly (Arlie)
Intermediate Member Username: Arlie Post Number: 1207 Registered: 5-2002 |
I've been THINKING about buying a well used 308 Ferrari for 10 years or more. Haven't got around to it yet. Since Ferraris are basically toys that one does not absolutely NEED to buy, there's no hurry. No need going bankrupt for a toy. | ||
| Steve (I_love_ferraris)
New member Username: I_love_ferraris Post Number: 5 Registered: 6-2003 |
Does everybody here own or are ordering a Ferrari. It seems like everyone does, and I'm feeling left out here . |