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Sorry I didn't get back sooner, my world got very busy for a few weeks The purpose of my book is simply to give an inside account of what went on...
I am a retired auto mechanic and I am completing a book on the US automotive gray market of the 1970-80's I need pictures of gray market cars....
The required modifications may have been intrusive enough, but you can't imagine some of the things I've seen. Often the guys charged with...
I did talk to Dick Merrit, he was very helpful, But one thing that's troubling me is that he told me about a Dealer in California who was busted...
Likewise I spent a lot of my time cleaning up after botched jobs. There was no shortage of them. One writer responded that he thought many...
Thanks, I'll take that under advisement, Nevertheless, it's all ancient history now. Fact is, many of the people working at the technician level...
that wasn't unusual. The Germans had some very strict laws about car registration, so it seems that it was easier to get a hot car across the...
There was no shortage of characters. And I knew a few myself. Trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. I pulled a few stunts myself. We all did...
That sounds about right. There were a lot of repeat photos, a sort of "China Syndrome" thing. I'd actually seen it done myself when I was working...
As a European car mechanic I dealt with this problem frequently back in the day. It wasn't unique to Ferrari though it was usually noticeable. It...
Two of the guys in a shop where I worked for a time built a megasquirt for their cars. Its a cool concept, a fully programmable Fuel injection...
The motor itself is the same one used by Alfa. It's still not a very good motor when new, but getting it through Alfa can save some bucks over Ferrari
I'm a retired mechanic who spent a good portion of my career working with Ferraris Maseratis and Lamborghinis. I also spent some time working in a...
Hi to the group. I'm not a Ferrari owner, and not likely to be, But I've been involved with Ferraris and other Italian cars for many years as a...
