Yup, got in Thursday night. I had a meeting on Friday in the Harbour Building that overlooked the front of the Four Seasons Hotel, and saw a lime green LP640 and a red California sitting out front, along with a few RRs and innumerable Bentleys.
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Could be, unless there is another red one in HK. I am overseas at the moment so no chance to check down in the CP. BTW just had a great set of biz meetings and dinners over the last few days with a guy who lives in Switzerland/Poland and has a great collection of old historic collectible F Cars. I mean like 1955 500 Mondial Mille Miglia and 1961 250 GT SWB, 1953 Ferrari 250 MM PF Berlinetta , 275 GTB/4 and 1938 Alfa 6C 2500 Mille Miglia. All with race histories. His mother is Chinese, father Hungarian and born in France! Interesting fellow and passionate enthusiast with a number of Mille Miglia re-runs under his belt amongst other events. Concours winner at one of the 60th Anniversary gatherings too.
i think Jeremy Clarkson is just over exaggerating about his Ford gt, i is not that unreliable as jeremy mentioned...
I believe his problems were all related to the anti-theft immobilisation device. If I recall he said it was going off and immobilising the vehicle, which then sends out a GPS location message to the Ford service call centre. He also claimed he had huge problems identifying himself as the owner to the call centre so that they could re-activate his car. It happened a few times. This is why he sent it back, I believe.
I have 3 friends who have owned Ford GT's since new and never a problem. Except poisoning from plastic interior if car left in hot sun
Here is an extract from the article, which can be found at: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/jeremy_clarkson/article571088.ece Sounds like he got a friday lemon. ""But three days later everything started to go very, very wrong. Leaving the Top Gear studio, the immobiliser refused to un-immobilise itself. So the car was pushed into the hangar and I went home instead in a rented Toyota Corolla. Ford sent a tow truck, changed the immobiliser and delivered the car to my house the following day. Is it fixed? I asked. Yes, they said. It wasnt. At three in the morning the alarm blew. And then again at four. This meant my wife started to refer to it as that f****** car, which took away a bit of the sheen, if Im honest. The next day, on the way back to the garage, I received a call on the hands-free phone from the tracker company. Your cars been stolen, sir, said the man. Im sure it hasnt, I said, because Im in it. Fearing that I might be the burglar, the man asked if I could give him my password. Tricky one that, since I have a different password for everything on the internet and can never remember any of them. And thats a big problem, because the man at the end of the phone has the power to remotely shut down the engine. I threatened him, lightly, with some physical harm, but this didnt work so I had to guess. Aardvark, I ventured. Abacus, Aesop, additional . . . Eventually he took pity and I was able to deliver the car back to Ford with some stern warnings about the alarm, the immobiliser and the tracker system, all of which seemed to be malfunctioning. As a courtesy car they gave me a Ford Focus, with a diesel engine. Nice. Two days later the GT was back. Is it fixed? I asked, again. Yes, they said Five minutes out of the Ford garage I received a text to say my car had been stolen. And then, in the next half hour, three more. So, counting the two Id received before I was even out of bed, that meant my car had been stolen five times before 9am. This time I rang Ford and explained that I would personally come over there and insert the whole car up the chairmans backside if it wasnt fixed. And while I was on the phone a yellow warning light came on the dash. Theres a yellow warning light on the dash, I bellowed, like Michael Winner, only angrier. Oh, thatll be something to do with the engine management system, said the man with the bleeding ears. Youll need to get it looked at . . . When Ford gave me the car back after its third hospital trip in as many weeks, I didnt ask if the security system was fixed. Because the notion of it still being broken was simply inconceivable. So imagine my surprise when, one hour later, while at my daughters school play, I heard a familiar siren. I couldnt believe it. The alarm had gone off again. In a fury this time, I called Ford and explained, loudly, that Roush, the company charged with servicing and maintaining the 28 GTs in Britain, was plainly incompetent. And that there was simply no point asking it to fix the alarm again because itd had three goes already. I then did something the man at Ford wasnt expecting. I asked for my money back. And that, the next day, is what happened. ""
Could someone be so kind as to let me know where the Sunday morning meet takes place, and if there's any way to get there without a car? I'm not too familiar with the New Territories (furthest north I've been so far is Sham Shui Po), so any details would be much appreciated. I'm not planning on bringing a whole bunch of people, if that's a concern; just me. Thanks in advance!
Clarkson actually bought another Ford GT after his original problems, I am pretty sure he still has the car now.
I think he actually bought the old one back after it had been fixed. Apparently in 2006 he sold it and ordered a Gallardo Spyder, which he has subsequently sold.
Very cool! I STILL haven't seen an Enzo in HK, other than a fleeting glimpse of one at the back of the old IM service centre by the old airport. Did they still have the Gumpert Apollo and the black Miura there? What's the Merc in the background? Seems like an SL, but the slats in the bonnet are confusing me.
i just seen Apollo, Zonda F (orange/black), Mr.Pagani C12, 512bb, 16M, Black CLK DTM......= =""" Image Unavailable, Please Login
