Marc Sonnery R.I.P.

Incredible and sad news.
Au revoir mon ami Marc.

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This is awful. What happened??

 

Very sad. He was always pleasant to talk to on here and had some very cool experiences w ferraris and other Italian cars.


May his memory be a blessing

 

Oh my. Sorry to hear this news.

 

I recognize the name but what was his screen name please.

 

@Nembo1777

 

From another thread, this morning….

 

Oh yea, thanks , Rip man shame.

 

Such sad news. I so enjoyed conversations here with Marc. My condolences to his family and loved ones.

 

Oh no! Completely shocking to read this news. So sad. RIP to Marc, I shall miss writing here…

 

Tremendously sad to hear and I’m sorry for his family’s loss. Marc had a lot of great knowledge and stories, particularly shared in vintage. I’ll miss his posts and discussions.

 

Uh, what a gut punch!!! I'm in shock.

I first met Marc when I was working at Shelton Ferrari many years ago. Despite me being a young, poor nobody Marc wholeheartedly welcomed me into the local car scene with open arms and shared his infinite knowledge with me with a smile. He was one of the nicest, most gracious people I've ever met. Truly never had a negative word to say about anyone.

Rest in peace my friend. If heaven has a track and great roads Marc is surely driving them with his idols as we speak.

 

I meant to say I shall mis HIS writing here, of course.
Condolences to his family and loved ones.

 

So sad... RIP Marc, you will be missed. I last saw him in Paris for Retromobile this year

 

Rest in Peace Marc, always enjoyed chatting with you about F1.

 

Never met Marc, yet had the pleasure of reading his many great contributions
to this section. Never a bad reaction. Truly a class act. One of the few.

Will miss. Happy turns at 10/10ths!

 

One of the really really good ones. Godspeed, Marc.

 

Left way too early. Very nice to talk to, and had a great feel for the "Golden Era" of sportscars. He will be missed.

 

I'm saddened to hear about Marc's passing. We traded some good information on our Maserati's that we both worshipped.

He was always kind, generous with information he had, and a very funny person. He will be missed.

 

That is indeed very sad news. I remember with pleasure meeting with him at Le Mans Classic in 2023

 

Very sad news. He was my hero in the 90ies when he wrote all these great articles for Cavallino. RIP Marc.

 

Al Roberts reminded me that in addition to selling Ferraris for Ed Waterman Marc did publicity and PR work for Steve and Tom Shelton when they owned the AD in Fort Lauderdale. Marc did an article (Al doesn’t recall where it appeared…perhaps Cavallino) about the BB that Al built for Preston Henn to run at Le Mans. The car was disqualified for violating the ban on morning warmups….the car was garaged in town and driven to the track which the officials deemed to be a warmup. Hey…the ACO (Or maybe Preston just managed to piss them off!)

 

Nothing is eternal, neither anything or anyone. This news reminds us each time how short life can be.
I was fortunate to know him on this forum, to chat a bit with Marc.
I will keep good memories of it.