I like my Ferrari John and It keeps me very busy indeed I’ve got the attention span of a goldfish anyway
Anyone belong to this, spotted at Gumdale. Even has three pedals Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Indeed it was.... And have i mentioned before how i ended up sideways on a wet but straight main highway and almost in a ditch while travelling at 100kph? Bloody dangerous in the wet.
Oh well. There’s a reason Challenges were made for tracks. And you probably had the wrong tyres on. Wouldn’t happen in a normal 355 with normal road tyres.
I drove a friends 355 GTS back in 1997 when he bought it new. The tyre fitment was the Pirelli P-Zero Giallo which was also fitted to the equivalent Porsches of the day. I was accelerating in the wet very gingerly in fourth gear, about 70 km/h at the time and the car for no reason that I have ever been able to fathom, it turned around on the on ramp to the outbound side of the West Gate Freeway from South Melbourne. It happened so quickly. Amazingly, we didn't hit anything and I assume something had broken on the car. But we both checked it over on the side of the road and could see nothing wrong. Some months later my fiend was driving on another road in the rain and the car went wayward again however he was able to catch the slide but ended up on the other side of the road towards oncoming traffic. When I began doing wheel alignments in 2002 I had a string of 355s in to attempt to do something about the rear end traction when wet. All I could do was throw a stack of toe on the rear which helped a bit but did not remove this problem. My friend ended up not driving the 355 in the wet and subsequently sold it for that reason. He bought a 993 TT. That gave way to a 430 Spider which did not exhibit the wayward and unpredictable nature of the 355 in the rain. I think PP had a friend with a silver 355 that did the same thing, except this time into a bridge on the Eastern Freeway. And now I think of it, PP drove me around PI in his in the wet, we couldn't go more than about 60 km/h down the straight. It was like almost having an accident all of time. Bizarre.
