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DJParks (Djparks)
Member
Username: Djparks
Post Number: 304
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 12, 2003 - 10:12 pm: | |
Hi David,
I just looked at the picture of your 330 GTC. I drove a black 330 GTC last Saturday for the first time. This occured at a collectors house during an impromptu drive. He asked if my fellow club members would be willing to move his collection from the garages down to a large field so we could take pictures of all of the cars together. Needless to say nobody hesitated to say yes. I drove the black 330 down and back, not far and not fast. The wood wheel, slow steering box and the little patter of the V12 under the hood, wooooooooooweeeeeee. Wish I could have taken her out for a good drive.
DJ |
David P. Smith (Dave330gtc)
Junior Member
Username: Dave330gtc
Post Number: 134
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, June 12, 2003 - 8:00 pm: | |
I remember watching and listening to a 250 SWB at Road America in Elkhart Lake way back when. I could hear the car well after it went out of sight and it definitely had the ripping canvas sound that everyone talks about. It gave me shivers up my spine. Even today I still think that it was one of my finest Ferrari memories. |
Bob Parks (Ol_bob)
New member
Username: Ol_bob
Post Number: 3
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 12, 2003 - 7:47 pm: | |
Several weeks ago I had my first Ferrai ride in my son's '78 308 GTS. It brought back the memories of seeing my first Ferrari almoat 50 years ago at the Seafair Sports Car Races on the Bremerton Wa. airport. I think it was 1955 or 56. The guy driving it was Phil Hill and I can still hear and see that car coming at us at the end of a 5000 foot straight with Phil Hill shifting down through the gears with a non-synchro gear box and never missing a shift. Coming out of the hairpin at the end of that 150 MPH run he went back up through the gears and that big 4.9L V-12 produced a sound that I will never forget. Like someone ripping a thick piece of canvas----six straight pipes on each side. I don't recall the type of Ferrari so maybe one of you young hotshots can help me here.
An interesting sidelight was a homebuilt car driven by it's builder, a local kid by the name of Don Jensen. It was powered by a Chrysler 300 and it led the Ferrari for many laps until his brakes went away then it was all Ferrari except for the marvelous show put on by a couple of Porsche Spyders who beat everybody else.
That was a long time ago but even at 77 I still remember how great that was. I'm glad that I took my sons to stuff like that because now I get to ride in a real Ferrari. |