Funniest/Stupidest comments you have received about your Ferrari

I may have posted the story a while back, but there is an update.

One day a few years ago I had the garage open while I washed either Mrs. Rosso’s car or my daily Miata, can’t remember which and doesn’t matter.

A car pulled up into the neighbor’s driveway, and a dad and son got out. Dad grabbed the son and dragged him over to my driveway, pointed into my garage, and shouted “That’s why you’re staying in school!!”

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And now the update. My neighbor Jeff passed away while sitting on the waiting list for a liver transplant. About a year ago, I ran into his wife (and also my neighbor) Carmen and we started chatting a bit about memories over the years.

I mentioned the “this is why you’re staying in school” moment, and she burst out laughing. She said “I remember that! It was perfect!”

(There was an Estate Sale next door last month. Carmen had been talking about moving. Looks like she has moved on.)

 

I posted this in the F8 forum, but it is more fitting here. We took the F8 out to get ice cream. As I was about to leave, an older guy rode up alongside my side on a bicycle and said, "What year is your Corvette?"

 

I got the Corvette comment last week when I stopped for gas. Two guys pulled up next to me, one went inside for drinks, the other guy started pumping gas and said "Man, I love your Corvette!" I just laughed and said thanks. His buddy comes up a couple of minutes later, and the guy pumping gas goes "Hey, check out that Vette!" 2nd guy looks at the first and says "Thats a Ferrari, dumba$$!"

I think the 2nd guy was more offended than I was!

 

Come on, admit it... It's a rental!"

 

I recently acquired a 1990 Testarossa, my dream car. My elderly mother knows nothing about cars. She's been telling her friends I bought a Tesla, I guess because the first 3 letters are the same? Sigh.

 

Work her into calling it a "Teslarossa", and call it a day.

 

I have friends/neighbors who have given their garage opener code to the delivery guys/gals.

 

Nice Ferrari, is the classic, but my personal favorite was a kid who asked if it ran on rocket fuel. Then there’s the inevitable "How much did that cost?" yelled from a sidewalk, or the guy who swore his Camaro could take me because "red cars are faster." The best? An old timer who peeked inside and said, "Back in my day, Ferraris had three pedals." Gotta love it.

 

Have had this a few times.... Lots of older people around me lo... I'm 60 so old as well but I have had people say during answering questions about the car at the gas station while getting fuel... "do you really need a car like that"?..... OR..... " do you really need a car that fast? the highest speed limit is 70"!

 

Similarly, I am in my early seventies. My ninety-nine year old FIL gave me the very same questioning routine, while giving him a ride.

 

I was doing a weekend drive through the countryside and my wife and I stopped for lunch. I was wearing my Ferrari polo shirt (I know a little pretentious, but I like the shirt) and while we were waiting for our sandwiches a guy nearby asked me how the team was doing? After a brief pause I realized he was referring to the Ferrari F1 team due to the apparel. I responded I politely I thought they're doing well. We head out of the store and get into our 458 (roof down) and start the engine, it roars to life just as he exits the store. The look on his face was priceless as he connected the dots for why I had the shirt.

 

Not sure if I posted this one before, and too lazy to scan through the whole thread to find out, so here goes…

I had the 430 parked outside one of our favorite beachside burger joints, and as we came out a guy and his son were looking over the car.

Him: Very nice, is it yours?

Me: Thank you, yes it is.

Him: I’ve got a Mustang, so I guess that makes our cars cousins.

Me: Really? How so?

Him: We’ll, ever since Ford bought Ferrari, I guess we’re family.

Me: Ford bought Ferrari? When did that happen? I know Henry the 2nd tried to buy it back in the early 60’s but Enzo said no. Did something happen in the last few days I haven’t heard yet?

Son: Let’s just go, Dad.

 

328: Is that a kit car?

360: How much did you pay? I said "Way less than you think!"

 

Grabbed some ice cream with my son, while sitting on a bench outside, guy rolls up in a Lincoln mark 7 and yells out “ is that your car...” I said “ yeah”, he says “YOU’RE A GREEDY BASTARD!!!!!”

My son bursts out laughing and, rather stunned and amused I yell back “ BUDDY, YOU DON’T KNOW THE HALF OF IT!!!!”

He then grimaces and rolls off briskly

Times they are a changin

 

Back in the day ('06-7ish), my Aston guy would pick up my Vanquish for service.

Funny thing was both my 360 spider and Vanquish had the same check engine light come on, within a couple of months of each other. Some of y'all prolly remember the ****ing "gas cap not tight" light. Wound up ignoring it after the second time (remember we didn't know a lot back then- Al Gore just invented the internet).....anyway he actually had his guy pick up my 360 and drop it of to FoH. I told him he could go ahead and drive it if he wanted.

Last year he confessed to me, when he drove my 360, everyone would flip him off on the road. Said it never happened once in all the years he has driven Astons.

I've never had anyone give me a thumbs up driving any of my F cars. Only happened to me in the Vanquish.

 

Back in 1969, on the drive from Charlottesville, VA to a mountain climbing trip into the Wind River Range in WY, I passed a pickup truck stuck in the soft soil along the road near Coyote Springs. It was in the middle of nowhere, so I stopped my 250GTE 2+2 Series III to see if I could help. The driver, a big man, said he was a WY state highway worker who had been putting up road signs when he got stuck. He gladly accepted my offer of a ride to the next town, and he got into the passenger seat of my car.

I noticed that he was looking over the interior, trying to read the speedometer (it was in KM) and seeing no model name anywhere, he asked, "What car is this?". I answered "It's a Ferrari". He pondered this for a minute and then asked "Where was it made?". "Italy", I replied. He finally relaxed, settled back into the seat, watching the scenery going by at about 100 mph and finally pronounced his evaluation "Sure is a good ridin" little devil!"

I think this was probably the most honest comment I ever received on that car!

 

I parked my "1963 250GTE 2+2 Series III in my apartment parking lot in Charlottesville, VA and got out. A nice looking girl in a tight white dress came running up to check out my car. After a quick inspection, she looked at the spoke wheels and asked "How much brake pad do you have left?" I admitted that I didn't know... whereupon she laid down on the asphalt, crawled under the front wheel and said "You're OK. Sigh... I could just go to bed with a Ferrari!". Apparently that offer did not extend to the driver (me). I found out later that she was the girlfriend of "Starvin" Marvin" Schwartz, a noted Top Fuel dragster.driver.