My Ferrari vandalized at Concorso. F-chatter involved?

Synchro,

I was there in those days but in 1987 it was Lambo, Maserati and Ferrari. The English, German and other marques came much later. I know what you mean though, it was an intimate event and setting. Were you there when the lawn sprinklers came on during dinner and doused everyone's cars? That was truly hysterical. I haven't been out there since 2000 but is "The Quail" more like it was? Times change though. It was still a relatively small event when my car got damaged by someone trying to steal parts and when one of the Maserati owners had his 100 point Merak key laced in the club hotel garage it was still small as well. Bad stuff just happens, even in small events. I don't think I'd categorize this incident as some major change in the nature of this show. Maybe the difference was that we didn't make a huge issue of these events but then we didn't have the Internet. I do hope they get the bastard.

Bob S.

 

I don't know if this matters to anyone but I came across this:

http://www.*************/PitLane?viewThread=y&gID=0&fID=2&tID=51733&bottom=10

Look near at the post from Sonyaxxx.

 

She says an F50....but maybe he doesn't know his Ferrari's...if it can be confirmed that 10 other cars were keyed in the parking lot, then this is strong evidence that what this person is saying is true...after all, how else would you know this? That info would have HAD to have come from the culprit one way or another...

 

...or it's a not so clever diversion planted to draw attention away from the true and only possible culprit, an F-Chat P&R poster.

 

What if he said 550 and she thought F50? Does anyone know if an F50 was keyed or damaged? How many were there?

Again, I don't know if this was BS or not but I thought it might be relevant so I posted it here.

actually, what really has me pissed is that she posted that and everyone was making fun of her like she was overreacting!! WTF? If one of those punks ever owns a nice car they're going to have the exact same reaction as we do - outrage.

 

Interesting. I've been following this thread for some time. While there is only a lead: that the individual was pissed off from Fchat, specifically P&R, there's also the wild card, someone no one knows nor suspects at all.

What are the chances that it is someone else? Not that great, but plausible.

What are the chances that someone here, signed onto that site and posed as someone's gf and told the story to push leads somewhere else? Clever.

I'd say start with getting a list of individuals who attended the event. Even if you cannot get spectators names, you can get registered entrants - and those can be matched up here. It might not lead anywhere, but it is a start.

 

Well, it was a first post, I think, so it's possible. However, it looks like it was posted on Saturday (or Sunday if the post timer is off) so how possible is it that this thread was started before? It could be after, I guess. Maybe someone can check the IP of the girl?

 

I believe that event was on Friday. If you look at the time of Mike550's first post about it, it was labeled 2:27am on 8/20...that would put it on the day of the 19th Fri...

 

Prediction:

Mike's 550 will get fixed and we'll never know who did it.

JMHO.

Dane

 

Mike:

This thread has been hijacked as a diatribe against the P&R Section with the full support of the Moderators. My later posts have been in response to that. You started the ball rolling by stating that you suspected an F-Chatter with whom you had a disagreement(s), but refused to name the individual(s) you suspect. (I posted in favor of that decision, btw.) This has created lots of traffic, wild speculation among the Community and calls for an end to the dreaded P&R Section from the "Nanny" types. Every true Ferrari enthusiast and even the unwashed worshippers of other brands are sickened by the desecration of your beautiful 550. I don't think that I would have been nearly as calm had it been me.

 

Well, I had no idea this kind of thing was going on at these shows. I always figured it was just a group of people getting together to show off how nice they could make their cars, and admire the work of others. It's not a great example of the human condition.

Maybe we are going to have to setup video cameras at the shows now. It doesn't sound like the guards are doing the job.

Michael

 

Continuing the hijack...... I would like to see the P&R Section left basically the way it is, open to all the users. The one little thing that I would like tweaked is to have the ability to ban users from just the P&R section. I don't think I need to start citing examples of otherwise good users who can't handle the P&R section. The ability to selectively ban would give the mods a very usefull tool for keeping things under control.

 

Hey WAYNE!!!!

How do YOU like it when you finish a resoponse and some MODERATOR has closed the thread in the meantime....

Pisses you off HU?