Dear Comrades, I felt that I should create this thread in readiness for such a time when the English and Euro F-40 become available in The United States of America. Firstly, they are more than two hundred weight lighter and our colleague Joe Sackey has already presented it with the nomenclatural accolade of 'F-40 Lightweight.' However, we do not yet now how the price will compare with the US F-40. Some pundits are thinking that the rarity will place a sixty five per cent premium upon them. I am prepared to take deposits for when this auspicious occasion occurs. With kind regards, 512 Tea Are
Allow me to make a humble contribution of some "English" F40s sent to me that capture the historic Silverstone gathering. Joe www.joesackey.com Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Dear Comrade Joe Sackey, Thank you very much indeed. For this coterie of the behemothic road burning thaumaturgical dream machines were the very conclave that gained the world record at the Silverstone parade this very year of two thousand and seven AD. And what a fine collection they make - resplendantly glinting in the warm afternoon sunshine of a spectacular summers day in England. And what a happy time we enjoyed motoring around the Grand Prix circuit in these wonderful machines that we are so inordinately priviliged to possess. A gloriousday indeed and one that will be remembered forevermore. And, having thrown down the gauntlet to our good friends settled within our colony of The United States of America we now await the response to establish indeed whether this brobdingnagian record may be broken? With kind regards, 512 Tea Are
I am looking forward to vacation at one of my Country's old "campsites," the united kingdom. I would love to catch a glimpse of one of these superior F40s.
Dear Comrade bgck13, Are you able to inform me, please, when you are coming to England and where you will be staying? Thank you. With kind regards, 512 Tea Are
Joe, you and bum-buddy Graham (he no doubt understands the reference), are more icky on this subject than saccharine sweetener. No-one outside of a professional driver on a racetrack would be able to tell the difference in driving a Euro versus a US F40. Anyone who claims they can are delusional, so I fully expect Tea for Two to claim he can.
I laugh everytime i read 512's posts, thanks! Im pretty happy looking at the USA F40's right now in the year two thousand and seven AD haah
Alex will you RELAX and LIGHTEN UP?? Cmon, none of us (ESPECIALLY Graham) takes any of this too seriously....90% of what he espouses is done in jest and typical English dry wit. I for one enjoy his posts and they make me smile. Far better to read his posts and be entertained, than to read those of self-proclaimed enthusiasts who take themselves far too seriously and come on these Ferrari Supercar threads posting erroneous information! Dont you think? LOL. You know humor adds to the quality of life Joe www.joesackey.com
Actually, it's not that hard to tell the difference between the plexiglass windowed, non-catalyst version, F40 from a USA F40 on the track. There is a big difference in weight. Sort of what happens when you jump from a GTO and into a USA F40. The weight difference is very noticable. However, the USA F40 actually has more horsepower than the very early plexiglass window F40. You got to love those software engineers..... Steve
Joe, That's a very nice selection of F40s. I only wish we had that many at Laguna Seca this year. Of course, it would have helped if Ferrari notified the owners of the cars what was up in sufficient time. Steve
Mr Tea Are may not be in the mood to post today....seems the mother country has had a bad case of the "chokes" this weekend....first rugby, and now, well, you know...
I met Graham this year, albeit very briefly, at the UK FOC national meet, with his rather nice 512 Tea Are, and can only confirm his very dry humour. I bet he laughs himself silly sat behind his computer when he reads some of the responses on here and they always bring a smile to my face I for one am glad for his posts here
Once I stopped taking insult to some of his posts and his comrade manor I realized how funny it is, its just the internet not something to get worked up upon and a little shuffling of the dust within the elite supercar owner crowd here is entertaining and yeah the responses that come with such posts are always funny
Joe, Joe, Joe.... This little icon generally means I am laughing... sometimes with you, sometimes at you when you get a tad too cozy with Mr Tea Party, but laughing nevertheless
Dear Comrade 512 Tea Are, I appreciate your loyalty and desire to deliver a tongue-in-cheek verbal smack-down on my behalf. But the thing is that I am perfectly capable of defending myself and I have been known to do so fearlessly and without regret or remorse, lo' these many years. I agree wholeheartedly when you say that you have only been wrong once, and on that occasion it was because you realized that in fact you were correct. Same for me! However, I implore you thus: please save your piss, for it is far too precious to be wasted upon self-proclaimed hobbyists who are almost always wrong. Instead I would reccomend that you could put it to far better use in your wife's rose garden, and simply call a "piss-off" to deal with the matter at hand. In my case I am saving it (my piss, that is) in case I should endure a carburettor fire in my Miura and the aforementioned fire extinguisher should not be on hand or become inoperative. Then I will be able to self-extinguish the flames. Sadly this is rather unlikely since the car is scrupulously maintained and excercised weekly accumulating real miles on proper roads. If I owned a celebrated "trailer-queen" then I might have occasion to demostrate my pissing prowess as the likelihood of it catching fire at an inopportune moment would be considerably higher. What type of fire-extinguisher do you have in your F40? Joe www.joesackey.com
