Who gets to drive the newly restored Ferrari in the family?

Nope. And you would have been foolish to give me the keys when I was 15-24.

 

Would hate to see your college bills.....sending our first one away this Fall....state school, $100k for 4 years.

 

I have a neighbour who lets his approx. 20 year old son drive his 458. He is always racing around. I'm surprised he hasn't gotten it impounded by the police yet.

 

Daughters 19th b-day present was tracking the 360. Sometimes on the street, but only when I am with them.

 

I had "rights of use" to my Dad's cars, including Ferrari's, when I was a teenager, but I was warned that I was under penalty of death if I crashed one due to bad behaviour, which I entirely believed, and I was also responsible for cleaning & detailing all of them weekly. That was sort of the payment in kind. He had a lot of cars and I was a good detailer.

The insurance rate for me at age 16 on those cars was $1200/month. :|
That was in 1992.

 

Out on a limb. Mine!

 

Haha, yeah he had a few back then!

$350 a year seems really good!

 

Hahaha. It was actually kind of like that, I guess. I never "advertised" that my Dad had these cars (he forbade it as showing off), so I'd usually park it quietly outside of some party, and then eventually someone would come up saying "There's a Ferrari outside!", and I'd get to say, "oh yeah that's mine. Wanna go for a ride?" That was pretty cool. There were a few I wasn't allowed to drive though.

I always say I was like Thomas Magnum to my Dad's "Higgins". I got to drive some cool cars at a young age, and my Dad got to give me a lot of grief about making sure I cleaned every spoke of every Borrani wheel perfectly. Haha. Actually, he was very cool about it. At the time of course, I couldn't imagine a reason any halfway decent Dad wouldn't hand the keys of an (at the time) $90,000/380hp bright red Ferrari sports car over to his 16 year old kid. In retrospect of course, I realize how cool it was for him to do that. We eventually "co-owned" one car together (a Mondial). We didn't always see eye to eye and he was very tough in some ways, but we bonded over cars so I think it made sense to him. Plus, I really was a good detailer!!!

Now that I'm older I've confessed some of the speeds I took those cars up to in my youthful enthusiasm, to much groaning and poorly hidden pride on his part. Haha. But he taught me to drive well, and I took a few "advanced" driving classes at his urging, so I guess he was marginally confident I wouldn't kill myself.

He ultimately sold everything off around age 70, and now he drives a 10 year old Mazda hatchback!

For what it's worth, I think it was a very cool thing for him to do. You're only young and beautiful once, and being young and beautiful in a Ferrari is an experience that never wore off.

 

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See how I make my daughter wear all racing gear and my wife and I just wear regular clothes - duh