Driving around in Italy-Milan to Sicilia for the targa and back to Milan, 2006 Malcolm Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Roland and I drove from SD to Ashville, ran the Carolina Trophy Run, and drove back to SD in 9 days, 5400 miles. The longest day, and what I sincerley hope will be MY longest day in the 275 was 1200 miles, spending the night in the middle of the TX panhandle. Sorry I dont know how to delete the extra screen shot. Malcolm Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
SD to Bozeman, ran the "Going to the Sun" Rally, drove home, around 4400 miles, this is agreat time, sign up and DRIVE. Malcolm Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
I admire you Jim (and everyone else that drives their cars). To keep such 'prancing horses' locked up in a garage all the time for fear of 'rock chips' or 'wear and tear' or (worse) 'it's an investment, I don't want to lose money' is sad. It's like keeping a thoroughbred horse locked up in the stable all the time, only occasionally taking it out for a walk. To not drive these cars, especially with any regularity is a waste. But to each his own. I plan to drive the piss out of my car, and when the exterior is chipped beyond recognition, and the interior ratty as hell, I'll restore both to as-new condition and start the process all over again. Having wear and tear and miles on a car is a badge of honor. Everyone driving their cars with no regard for the miles (or wear) piling on - keep at it!
The other wonderful thing you'll see on the road is just how much these cars mean to people. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
great pics Jim - what chassisnumber was your 275 ? i have put about 40.000kms on my 348 Spider in 8 years. now i am looking forward to drive my "new" 308 GT4. both will have to share my time reserved for driving so i think that will make 3000kms / year for each of them.
yes we do! btw, i find it amusing that these cars only have 5 digit odometres.... no plan from factory that they would ever get to 99,999
Or perhaps recognizing that 108K could easily be represented as 8K to keep prices of old cars strong?
All cars used to have 5 digit odos - Australian Design Rules have required 6 digit ones for some time now (at least the last 15yrs). What do modern F cars have? And my addition to the spirit of this thread is driving my Westfield from Townsville to Brisbane in a day (1,200km) one week after I finished building it
You noticed? LOL.. Probably only us old BMW guys would have noticed that. Here are a couple of my previously owned cars. Pictures are from when I owned them. Thanks for making me dig these pictures up. Some good memories. The e46 M3 was purchased new by me in 2002. Gray with black interior, SMG trans. I sold it in 2004 to a doctor and about 8 months later it was stolen and recovery wrecked. I ended up buying it from the insurance company and built it into one of my favorite race cars ever. The only straight panel on it when I got it back was the right door and right quarter panel. Suspension was mangled, but it would be replaced on a race car anyway. Perfect race car material. It was built over the winter of 2004/05 and I raced it all of 2005. We still maintain it for it's current owner, Martin Cain. The e30 M3 was purchased in 2003 as a incomplete race car in boxes and a rolling shell. When it arrived even the throttle bodies were apart... OH NO! What have I bought? Many late nights and long hours it became my second full time race car. The first was the 2002ti Alpina. 2003 to 2004 I learned a few lessons and had a ton of fun. Got to love the 4 cylinder M3's... Great, well balanced cars to learn on. BTW: I am still learning everyday. We still maintain it for it's current owner, Glenn Campbell (not the singer). I am still enjoying the heck out of seeing everyone's cars in use in this thread. Keep them coming. Hopefully we'll see more of them dusted off and out for a nice journey this Spring. If you don't feel up to driving your collectors item, then buy something you can have some fun with. Take some pictures. You can't take it with you. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Agree, very well said. In addition to being fun the fact that you can make someone else's day by not doing a whole lot is wonderful.
I've a story...not regarding a Ferrari, but it least it relates to a make and model which Enzo raced. Mid 1980's- my parents were in the midst of a divorce, I was 20ish. My dad's other cars had been sold off, he had moved out, and due to lack of secure storage had left behind our 1928 Alfa 6C 1500S...keys in it, as always... I certainly put several tankfuls of gas through it while I had sole access to it. Always warmed it up thoroughly, changed oil often (50W nondetergent oil, no oil filter...), and drove it with appropriate gusto! Dad started getting phone calls from friends/neighbors who had spotted me in the car around town. He knew that i had comparable mechanical "feel' and driving skills, knew that I would take as good a care of the car as he would, but was anxious that I was going to just wear it out! All good things came to an end. Dad remarried quickly, bought a house, my parents sold their former residence, and the Alfa left my care. Unfortunately, it was willed to his new wife following his passing...perhaps as a "so there!" response to my many illicit drives? No regrets on my end- I've led a blessed life. Icing on the cake was a reunion with the car at Monterey last year (that's me in the driver's seat). Current owner (and former sparring partner in vintage racing...small world) graciously let me drive it twice that weekend. It was like an afternoon reunion with an old flame... Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
What a great story!!!! All my parents drove were Buicks. My 19 year old might have some stories to tell, but I keep the keys in my pockets. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks. Ha, no my only seat time was in the passenger seat of his 2nd T57, pre-restoration. Lotsa rides, often late at night with dad. Many miles covered. Post-Pebble, only one ride. :-( One more story, if you'd like: "my" vintage racer was a 1955 Alfa 1900CSS (see attached). Drove it on dates, took it Christmas shopping, and drove it a few times to college. My GF of the time was soooo happy when I had the heater reconnected! Thanks! Image Unavailable, Please Login
great thread guys, good to see people enjoy life with the cars they work hard for in there daily grind.
