Tripping over Enzo's every where in St Pete

The CLK is ex Mika Hakkinen, currently owned by Don Wallace. It is a true 1100 hp example, one of three, all other examples are "only" 700hp. Mr. Wallace has had a laundry list of truly amazing cars. I've tried to keep a good record of his cars. If anybody wants specific details, PM me.

 

It does not have 1100 HP LOL . It has 720 HP. And is one of four CLK GTR's with the 7.3 litre AMG engine. It was registered in Germany before Wallace got it; I don't know if this car was ever owned by MH.


Thanks for all the pictures! What a magnificent event!

 

That thing is stupid low. It's scraping the road because of the grooves. Incredible. I've heard that they're horrible to drive.

Great pics!

 

I was utterly impressed with the show as well. I never knew so many supercars could converge on sleepy St. P. It was especially interesting and fun to have a brief chat with Wallace - he is a down-to-earth car guy with excellent taste. I don't think Michale Fux was at the show - just his staggering and beautiful array of modern cars.

As a BB owner, I was thrilled to see Mark's BBi in the flesh. It's really striking - the carbon fenders, plumbing on the engine, and interior really are beautiful. And it's just so well executed. The 3rd BB in the show belongs to Clete Gardenhauer (sp?), and it is a multi-platinum 1984. Clete is an IAC/PFA judge and avid Healey owner as well. Three cheers for the Boxer turnout!

Forza,
David

 

Fantastico.

 

It's made to fly .
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Guys, what was the name of the show?

 

While that car is often referred to as a CLK GTR, it's not. The car that flipped at LeMans (three times) was the evolution of the CLK GTR, referred to simply as the "CLR".

Story here

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If that is the case, hopefully they will keep doing what they did this year and keep it growning every year. Great photos!

 

Thank you Erik......you are ofcourse right.

 

How odd because thats what Mr. Wallace has told me on more then once. He made a strong point of telling me that it was 1100hp. I have personally seen the documentation that shows that the car was gifted to Mika. Either way it doesn't really matter this is just what Mr. Wallace has told me, regarding the HP.

 

That car was in Forza a couple months ago and as I recall they were custom made for the owner. He wanted a stock look in a larger size.

I could be wrong and I dont have the issue at my office. Perhaps somone else will have a better memory.

 

Ran into a few F Chatters - Florida F community is amazing!
Out of control evening on Fri, great show on Sat. I had no idea that many incredible cars would be there - a little overwhelming. When I pulled up a little late with my Box, I thought seriously about turning around when I saw some of the hardware lined up.

To my surprise, I won best Vintage Ferrari??!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWgo121CLdA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2zLvcmakPw
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Don't forget the Porsche did the same thing around the same time (I think at the Petit LeMans)..

http://youtube.com/watch?v=b31O4FmljGY

 

I went last year..it was amazing. I wish I could make it again this year

 

If it hasn't already been mentioned, Wallace owns that orange Cuda. He's the one who bought it at BJ.

 

Beautiful car......the rims look great.

 

Ah oke, I guess he was being a bit optimistec. thanks anyway for the info on Mika

 

just a tid bit re: Fux

The “supercar” business is also thriving. Ocean Drive, one of the new magazines aimed at the affluent, carries a piece on Michael Fux, whose Sleep Innovations manufactures Memory Foam products. Fux has collected some 50 luxury cars. He recently took possession of a $2 million Ferrari FXX, one of only 20 in the world.

 

Someone earlier in the thread was trying to figure out what type of rims you had on. Congrats on the Forza feature by the way. Car looks great

 

+1!

 

More from the story's source:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/apr2006/rich-a19.shtml
( The World Socialist web site (Not a fan of the wealthy))



The sums that the very wealthy have at their disposal in the US are almost unimaginable: Oil executive Lee Raymond receiving some $400 million in a retirement package; the 2005 compensation of bank chairman Richard Fairbank totaling some $280 million; Omid Korestani, head of Google’s global sales, exercising stock options providing him with $288 million last year.

The accumulation is brazen. What once would have been considered a somewhat discreditable fact of social life, the proliferation of billionaires, is now hailed as a sign of America’s success. The demise of the Soviet Union and the supposed absence of any alternative to capitalism, the putrefaction of the AFL-CIO trade unions, the ignominious collapse of American liberalism and the lack to this point of broad-based, organized political opposition to the ruling elite and its two parties have rendered the American financial aristocracy “dizzy with success.” These people have lost their heads.

In the face of public outrage over oil company profits and soaring gasoline prices, Exxon arrogantly defended Raymond’s hundreds of millions, arguing that they were rewarding the executive’s “outstanding leadership of the business, continued strengthening of our worldwide competitive position, and continuing progress toward achieving long-range strategic goals.” The company added that it considered Raymond’s compensation package “appropriately positioned.”

In a study published in October 2005, three accounting professors reported that negative, even occasionally scathing press coverage, “does not substantively change corporate behaviour with regard to pay packages.” The American establishment is all but impervious to the sentiments of the broad masses of the population. In response to a recent report detailing the immense and growing social gap, a spokesman for New York state’s Business Council told a reporter that the incomes earned by his state’s rich were “something that everybody who cares about New York should be pleased about.”

An insulated world of immense wealth exists as never before, at least in modern US history. The number of Americans with assets of $1 million or more reached 7.5 million in 2004, according to a survey conducted by the Spectrem Group. Beyond that, however, are those who possess “Ultra High Net Worth” (a mellifluous term invented by Merrill Lynch circa 2001): individuals in households with $5 million or more in net worth. In a country of 300 million people, the UHNW form a very small percentage of the population, but a not insignificant number in absolute terms. Economic, political and cultural life in America is to an enormous extent organized for their benefit.

This is not simply obscene or unjust, it is socially irrational and immensely destructive. How is it possible to allocate resources, repair and renew the infrastructure, carry out any type of long-term economic planning, cure any social ills, when the official guiding principle is the ability of an oligarchic elite to accumulate ever-greater personal wealth? The gravitational pull of such wealth asserts itself in every aspect of life.