Your most embarrassing, ghetto-move in a Ferrari?

Pap , we, Americans dont know what centerlink is. Is that where you work?

 

How about driving my 348 up and getting in my tractor/trailer truck to go to work. Everyone then began to ask what do I haul. Better yet, drove to the YMCA to workout.

 

Friend calls me desperate that no cabs are available and has to be at the airport in an hour, I was in the 355 Spider that day, got out of work, pulled up to his place and his bag wouldn't fit in the trunk no matter what we did, had to put the top down, he got in and I put the huge ass bag in his lap slanted so his face was smothered by the damn thing. Drove down the highway with everyone staring at us with his bag half way out of the car clearly above the windscreen.

Pulled up at the airport and for a second all the hustle and bustle stopped and there was a momentary silence for about 15 seconds LooooL

Now thats g-h-e-t-t-o

S

 

I am going to buy one stradale mirror at a time. and I am going to put the first one on when i get it. So i will be rocking around with 1 challenge stradale mirror and one oem 360 mirror! i will have to take a picture !

 

Pulled up to a nice place in a 360 Spider with the top down... To get to the valet stand you have to make a tight turn... On a 360, the buttons to honk the horn are just inside where you rest your hands on the wheel (rather than in the center of the wheel like every other car)

So as I pulled up to the valet I BLEW the horn completely by accident while turning the wheel... and startled a group of strangers that thought I was trying to show off or something... I was very embarrassed.

 

hahaha that is too funny.

 

Getting my Tr inspected and it was on the dyno. I saw a bunch of workers around it and finally one of the mechanics came over and asked "is there a secret to starting your car"? Nope, the infamous starter solenoid had acted up. So, about 5 of the mechanics had to push start it. Very impressive and one of my first repairs!

John

 

On my way to the church in the 348.....first time driving a Ferrari in 3-4 months. Stop to get gas - turn key off, get out, pop gas door. Gas door doesn't pop. pop it again....still won't release. Start fiddling with the gas door, trying to pry it open. Call over my groomsmen, one of whom is a mechanic. Have him pull on the gas release door while I press the release button incessantly. Try doing little dances, anything.

Crowd is gathering....we are in kind of a redneck village in Ohio where Ferraris are not common.

Still no luck....a couple more groomsmen come over and offer advice. We all are now fiddling with it. Mechanic gets out a tool kit to aid in the opening of the release door.

TEN MINUTES LATER, I decide to put the key in the ignition and turn it to on. Push button....gas door pops open!!!! I'm an idiot.


I don't know if it was because I was getting married that day, or I just forgot that you had to do that in some Ferrari models, but that was my best move so far.

 

I wash my F430 in a coin op car wash right next to guys with a 75 Taurus and Ford ranger trucks. It's the best way given where I live and I don't like taking it to automated car washes. Actually, I rather enjoy washing it myself and a lot of people come over to talk about it.

 

Almost forgot this one. When i picked up the diablo, the battery was dead. We put a new one in, but disconnecting it reset the factory alarm. We couldn't find the alarm remote(found one later for $600), so i had to drive it all the way home with the hazards blinking. Like i wasn't already sticking out like a sore thumb in a yellow diablo. This was to replace the battery that died in my previous post about stalling out in rush hour traffic. This was all on top of just having got the car and being terrified of it to begin with. Everything is cool now.

 

Come clean. You purposely blew the horn to show off.

 

Went to a car show in LA and when it was time to leave I said my goodbyes, then got in the Ferrari to start it and nothing, zip, nada, zero, how embarrassing, big crowd of people standing around to hear the Capistro with the new Hyperflows.The engine had cooked on a hot day and just wouldn't crank until it cooled down.

 

I did a very similar thing on my Vespa once, only I was intending to hit the kill switch and instead I hit the horn - DUH!!!

 

If you dont have a job, you go to Centrelink to get on the dole. The dole is a goverment handout. You get around AU $250 a week on the dole. Plus, free dental and health cover. Free public transport.

All that for just sitting around and doing nothing with your life!

Also, Centrelink caters to all the pensioners. They also get a handout if you are over 65 and have no money and limited assets. You can average from around $50 a week to $250 depending on what assests you have etc..etc..

 

topless beaches, sun, nice water, Aussie style football, F1, and now Centrelink: what's not to like about downunder.

rik

 

Got a BIG poster by mail and had to go to the USPS office, obviously didnt fit.
I had to seatbelt the roll, atleast 2 foot taller than the roofline.

Tried not to make eye contact with anybody

 

Hehe!! Yeah Rik, lifes good down here mate!

Im off to throw another shrimp on the BBQ!
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On the first warm day of the season I took my Dino spyder down to the local Shell station to refuel. As usual, there were several people who came over to chat about the car. When I got in to leave, I started the car, selected first gear, and just at that instant my seat adjuster popped out of lock position and my seat slid all the way back. Being only 5'-9", my feet no longer reached the pedals. Soooo... I dropped the clutch and was helpless to stop the car as it bucked and jerked forward for six or so feet before stalling. My audience contained their laughter, but I was mortified. Thankfully there was no car fueling in front of me.

 

I raced a pick-up truck in my 308 back in the early 80's cause he was reving his engine at the light taunting me. I showed him!!!!!

 

While turning left at a 4 way stop sign my car's horn started to malfunction and would honk intermitantly as i turned the steering wheel left. It just so happens that an officer was staking out the intersection and thought i was honking at him and or others. So, he pulled me over into a neighborhood with a roundabout at the end of it. Just my luck that the only good spot i could find required for me to make a U turn @ this roundabout. As i approached the turn around I had to stop in mid turn to let an old man make his way accross the middle of the street and of course my horn was blaring at him the entire time!!! The old man stopped walking to stare at me, chucked, and then he pointed out the patrol car with lights on pulling me over as if i didn't realize there was a cop on my arse!!! I was so embarrassed and felt major ghetto. Turns out the officer pulled me over for not having front plates and not for being an inconsiderate horn honker!

 

Having to ask for help to be push started in my old Mondial.

Ah, good times

-dsd

 

Last Spring, when I had discovered that the clutch slave cylinder in the Boxer had pretty much held its last good seal, but hadn't had it fixed yet, the first 5 minutes of every drive started with burning off all of that hydraulic fluid that had dripped onto the exhaust header as it sat in the garage. This was fine when moving, as it vented the white smoke over a big spread. Unfortunately, sometimes I caught a traffic light in those first few minutes, so all of the burn-off happened while sitting in the midst of a bunch of nice, regular, mundane, dependable cars, politely producing nothing resembling the steam locomotive-like plume coming from all those louvres over the engine, as I tried not to make eye contact, clouded in my exotic Italian BBQ smoker.

I do this all the time, in a town with few exotics. People don't come over to talk - they look at me like I'm Sideshow Bob in a UFO. (no comments from the peanut gallery!)

.......that you could almost keep up?!? (I got the same shiz in my little furrin' Por-shuh from all the pick-ups and Camaros)

 

Lol!!

 

after having the throttle cable break on me on a 246 Dino in Taft Calif..i had coasted into this little gas station/mini mart..knowing i was in for a long wait and huge towing bill i did the ghetto move!!
saw i had a good lenght of the cabel to work with so i went in and bought 3 rolls of duct tape and some work gloves.i taped up the whole left side between the rear wheel and the door edge and all the rocker.panel.i then routed the cable under the car and and pulled it up the side and into the car.voila...instant hand throttle..it worked great and when the door was closed it held the cable...instant ghetto cruise control!!!got a lot of strange looks as i was going thru the gears with the door open a bit..but i made it home!

 

One hand on the wheel?