| Author | Message | ||
| Racer 001 (Mr_0011)
Member Username: Mr_0011 Post Number: 483 Registered: 3-2002 |
Saw a TR as a punk kid... red too... from then... I loved Fcars and got to like cars in general a lot more...  | ||
| Jordan Witherspoon (Jordan747_400)
Junior Member Username: Jordan747_400 Post Number: 240 Registered: 12-2002 |
I liked cars as a kid, like most kids. I dreamed of a Countach I didnt know anything about cars though...just wanted a FAST one to get ladies! After a while my interests in cars died down...until about 2 years ago. I was at a big movie theatre/store front here in California and I was camping in line for Star Wars all day. By night time I had moved up to a spot near the valet parking section and I was chatting with my family when all of the sudden i heard that "sports car" sound. The crowd STOPPED and we all looked over to see a Diablo 6.0 peel out with its borla exhaust sounding away. It was the craziest sight *and sound * that I had heard! Thats what sparked my interests again and I gradually found this site and some others and Im learning a lot! | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Intermediate Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 1706 Registered: 8-2002 |
i guess, typical of young boys, i was given Hot Wheels and Match Box cars almost from the day i was born... i can't remember the first time i saw a Ferrari on TV or in real life... i amassed quite a collection of little cars when i was a kid- now i'm starting over ... My dad was into cars, so when he left his C&D or R&T lying around, i'd pick it up and get all bug-eyed at the pictures... i remember how proud he was that i spelled Porsche correctly in a little story i wrote for school, back in 1st or 2nd grade... i guess my enthusiasm for cars is genetic... | ||
| Bill Sawyer (Wsawyer)
Member Username: Wsawyer Post Number: 638 Registered: 2-2002 |
I first learned about Ferrari from reading Car & Driver and R&T and by following the Ford racing effort at Le Mans. I grew up in Dearborn and much of Ford's racing work was done at Kar Kraft which was about 2 miles from my house and was owned by the family of some kids at my grade school. Al Garthwaite from Algar used to be friends with their family and he used to visit their grandmother. Saw my first Ferrari in their driveway while he was visiting. Saw my next Ferrari sitting on a hill at Elkhart Lake during the 1971 Can-Am race. It was a 250 SWB Berlinetta and I can still see it in my mind's eye to this day. I saw my first Ferrari sports racer run at Watkins Glen in the 1971 Six Hour race. Started attending Grand Prixs that year and saw Ferrari's race in 19 GPs at Watkins Glen and Mosport during that decade. Missed one Mosport race because I couldn't find anyone else to go with me. Instead I attended the only professional Formula Atlantic race ever run at tiny Waterford Hills Race Course outside Detroit. I also saw Ferraris race at all the Detroit GPs except one which I missed due to a hospital visit. Haven't gone to Indy yet. | ||
| Carl Roberts (Carl63_99)
New member Username: Carl63_99 Post Number: 27 Registered: 10-2001 |
I received a radio control toy car that was (I think) the 365 BB NART car when I was really young. First real 1:1 scale (sorry, that what us modelers call real cars) Ferrari I saw was in 1980. I was still in high school, though my beat-up piece of sh*t Nova was bad-ass with it's 250 straight six and glass-pack muffler. Someone near my home had a brand new 308, red. I was so ignorant at the time, thought it was one of those six cylinder things (having heard or read something about the 246GTs), and I wanted to upgrade to a real V8, so all I thought was, wow, bright red color, Bet I could beat him in a race! I said I was ignorant!!! | ||
| Jethro Bodine (Rsbiomedical)
New member Username: Rsbiomedical Post Number: 28 Registered: 9-2001 |
I had a neighbor with a 512BB and a close family friend had a 275 spyder that he bought in 1972 for $7500 and it was true love ever since I laid eyes on those beauties. My dad was always MB and P-cars. The 275 has been a daily driver ever since and is still running strong. | ||
| Tillman Strahan (Tillman)
Member Username: Tillman Post Number: 348 Registered: 11-2001 |
Magnum P.I, N.L. Vacation, Cannonball Run and a ton of car magazines in the 80s. That's why the 308/328s sing to me. | ||
| Tim N (Timn88)
Intermediate Member Username: Timn88 Post Number: 2138 Registered: 6-2001 |
Its funny you should ask. i do not remeber the first time i saw a ferrari, or when i started to like them. i remeber stuff like the first time i got a ride in one, and stuff like that, but thats because i already liked them alot at that point. | ||
| Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
Board Administrator Username: Rob328gts Post Number: 3390 Registered: 12-2000 |
Magnum P.I. | ||
| Greg Rodgers (Joechristmas)
Member Username: Joechristmas Post Number: 652 Registered: 3-2001 |
Magnum P.I. for me too. Eric I love that scene! I watch Cannonball Run as often as I can. Great Movie! | ||
| Jeff B. (Miltonian)
Junior Member Username: Miltonian Post Number: 93 Registered: 12-2002 |
I should have put this into "General Ferrari Discussion". Can it be moved? | ||
| Eric Eiland (Eric308gtsiqv)
Member Username: Eric308gtsiqv Post Number: 552 Registered: 11-2001 |
Magnum P.I., followed by National Lampoon's Vacation, followed by Miami Vice -- with a little Cannonball Run thrown in for good measure (love watching the Countach in the opening scenes of that movie!). Didn't see my first Ferrari "in the flesh" until several years later. | ||
| Jeff B. (Miltonian)
Junior Member Username: Miltonian Post Number: 92 Registered: 12-2002 |
Has this been addressed in the past? Largely because of the comments about the new Charlie's Angels movie, I'm wondering how many of you can remember when you had your first exposure to the concept of Ferrari - a movie, a magazine, a car parked on the street, a race, a conversation, whatever. In my case, I can remember reading "On The Beach" where one of the characters has a racing Ferrari in Australia, and everyone is about to die from radiation poisoning. He wins the big race, then commits suicide running the engine in an enclosed garage. Fred Astaire played the character in the movie. So, how did the passion begin for you? |