I really have the best friend in the world!!!

Other than my wife, of course.

This arrived in a FedEx envelope on Friday from a pretty well know buyer and seller of Ferrari items. He's a great guy, would rather give me something I need to make my car complete than sell it to someone else who might just want it for a collection. He went so far as to find one from a car that has a serial number close to mine!!

I asked him to send me an invoice, he said NOPE, not gonna do it. He was just happy it got into my hands.

My car's documents and pouch are now complete, and I can stop watching ebay or praying that somehow the market will come to its senses.

To my friend I can only say, THANK YOU AGAIN!!! And hope that this sets an example for how we Dino folks, and the Ferrari community in general, can be more generous with each other when the occasion arises.

Dave M.

P.S.

I'm going to return the favor somehow. The pouch I was using will go to a good home. Someone who needs what I have, and also doesn't have the big bucks floating around to buy one. All I have to do is figure out which car it came from, and then find a deserving recipient.
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Congrats. I feel you pain I've been searching for a manual pouch and a V-8 Warranty Card for an '86 328 for almost a year now. Strangely the car came with the owner's manual.....

 

Time to figure out where this came from!!!
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Not positive but it looks like an early 80's GT4.....

 

Dave,

Congrats on the docs!! I'm trying to guess who your friend is.

Is the old pouch from a 330 by chance?


Regards,

Art S.

PS. Did you drive your Dino yesterday in celebration? The weather was perfect!!

 

Dino is laid up for the winter.

Dash is coming out for some behind the dash maintenance, and a mouse hair refurbish.

Dunno on the pouch. DOn't think it's old, just had a long life.

The cavallino is debossed into the leather. Inside the pockets are leather, and the the lining is moire (sp).

Might be 80's.

Dave

 

Which is why I think GT4. I had a chance to pick up a GT4 complete manual pouch with books, etc. and it looked like the one pictured. Again, not sure.

 

I'll shoot some better pictures today. Then we'll get to the bottom of this.

DM

 

Dave,

Can your best friend, be my best friend. I have many cars from the 50's needing document folders. I can be an excellent friend for your buddy and unlike you, I have warehouses of Ferrari parts. I already have many friends, but there is always room for one more.

Let your friend know.

 

Tom.

I always try to have all my friends get along, but...

I dunno,

I think my friend thinks you're... um.... well, he said something about Brokeback Mountain???

I'm not sure if he'll talk to you but I'll ask.

Is there any particular message you'd like me to pass on to him?


Dave

 

Congratulations on the completion of your needs
and best wishes for a successful concours contender.

This one is correct for a 1972 and I'm sure that you saw a similar pouch sold on eBay for $7100.00 shipped.

 

Yup.

sure did.

I now have complete books and tools, and know they're correct. IT was an incrediblty generous thing to do.

Can't tell you how lucky I feel about all this.

I guess that Karma thing is true. Now I just have to figure how to pass it on.

Dave

 

Tell you friend "Ride em cowboy!"
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Tom,

I didn't know you were in the NAVY. Might help, who knows. You sure do look sparky in your little sailor suit. 2nd from the left, aren't you?

When I asked him about it earlier today, his initial reaction was not positive.

Maybe if you swapped him one of those old cars, maybe something with some race history he'd be willing to talk to you. I'll be happy to broker the deal.

Ship me a car, 50's vintage, running condition, (a Ferrari please, and it better not be junk, he'll know) and when it gets here I'll give him a call.

Dave

 

Funny, that's the second time that Toms name and a reference to Brokeback Mountain ended up in the same conversation in the recent past.

Per your above request, Tom recently sent Niki new shirts to wear at the shop to get free advertising for HIS business. I walk in one Morning to Niki wearing a bright green shirt that has "Its all junk.....UNTIL YOU NEED IT" printed across the back.

New high water mark has been set for the man that's always in the right place at the right time with the right deal and the best slogan. How will he raise the bar at Cavillino? One can only guess. Inquiring minds have to know.

Dave

 

He's gonna showed a NAKED car...that's how! LOL!

I need one of those shirts, as Lady Valeria is gonna throw all my old stuff away!

I told her those old radiator fans, burned alternator belts and a 55 gallon drum of spark plugs are required to make the car COMPLETE original....I did lose the pieces of the blown headers though.....and we threw away the crashed doors.

The snap flap broke on my pouch but it's still stuck to the front!

 

Actually, I heard he was gonna drive the car bareback!!!

Or was that side saddle???

Either way, he's not gonna have anything on but his ten gallon hat!! And who knows where he's gonna wear that!

 

I'll warn Alicia......LOL!

 

Perhaps a factory Ferrari transporter? Softly spoken words (from the accountant) mentioned that a long time collection may soon relinquish some tightly held Ferrari Gems; the red racecar transporter, a 246 GT, Daytona, 250, etc.

 

Cavallino 2007
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can i trade a 250 pouch with all the chinetti manuals and dealer diectories and warranty booklets for the concours correct ferrari hula doll . i need it for the tdf when it goes to pebble i dont want to lose points.
please tom i am not kidding this is a real barn find.

 

WAID A MINUTE.

I have several nice repro hula dolls, at a fraction of the price of the original that Tom has.

You can't tell them from the real thing. They are EXACT duplicates.

And, I've never been in a sailor suit. Well, not since I was two.

DM

 

Pretty close
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Utter Nonsense!
Reproduction hula dolls can be spotted easily. Post 1964 (production date 10/63) dolls were manufactured using synthetic coconut fibers for the bras. The grass skirts of the originals were made with .012" thick blades of faux grass and cut off at a 87 degree angle at the bottom, where the repro's used .006" grass. The cost saving decision led to problems with the skirt retaining its form in high winds or under hard cornering.
As these changes can easily be spotted even in poor quality photos, I can say with high certainty that the doll on Toms dashboard is a pre 1964 original. I highly suspect that the pictured doll was originally installed in Gendebien's TdF (0677GT if I remember correctly) prior to the running of the 1957 Tour de France event and is well documented. The above mentioned doll has the chassis number lightly stamped on the bottom of the mounting base with the number "6" slightly lower than the rest of the numbers.
As there are only 2 original dolls known to exist one would question how THIS doll found its way onto Toms car.
As told to me, Tom also has the original box AND the wax paper wrapping it was originally packaged in!

Dave

 

in addition dave i have the copies of the build sheets from marcel massini on 0677 . clearly indicated on the fourth page line 23 is the specified doll inclusive of all diameters. weight by gram , dimensions and location for optimizing performance . i believe the doll is pictured in john starkey's book "ferrari 250 gt berlinetta tour de france" but dont quote me on that its just from memory.
tom as such you only have one course of action that being you must sell / relinquish the doll to its proper place . for which you will be handsomely rewarded as i clearly have no alternative. please provide photos of the hula doll base so it can be properly verified by the ferrari classiche department. tom i personally beseech you to do the honorable thing as this car has on more than one occasion been considered the " winningest ferrari of all time " so please be guided accordingly