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456/550/575 Fellowship….IRL I met…..

Discussion in '456/550/575' started by Ferrari55whoa, Jul 4, 2024.

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  1. Ferrari55whoa

    Ferrari55whoa F1 Rookie
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    Dec 21, 2005
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    Eric
    TERRY! @tazandjan

    What an absolute treat today!

    Felt like chatting with your favorite grad school professor about life/travel and things other than your “focus of study”.

    Bonus points if you meet
    someone IRL (in real life) and take a photo….i feel dumb that I didn’t take a photo with Terry and his hotrodded red 575.

    I should have started a thread like this for all of us ages ago when I first circled up the “San Jose Area” guys in NorCal.

    I’m currently on this
    “Griswold-style National Park” road trip with my wife and daughters and it’s at an intense pace and was SO pumped Terry agreed to take out time for me as I sped thru his area
    (I could have listened to him and chatted for a whole long weekend!

    This thread might also be a neat way to share the brotherhood/friendship/fellowship and then assist guys that want
    the “owner” tag.

    My wife is a saint because I always travel so hard and fast and I love seeing people like Terry along the way. Also got to see an old vintage bronco racing buddy for an hour in Charlotte while on this 2400 mile 9-day road trip.

    MONTEREY CAR WEEK is coming up….maybe we need to have a meet up at Concorso Italiano?
     
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  2. Ferrari55whoa

    Ferrari55whoa F1 Rookie
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    #2 Ferrari55whoa, Jul 4, 2024
    Last edited: Jul 4, 2024
    I’ve really enjoyed meeting so many of us here in the 456/550/575 sub forum.

    It was on a March 2022 trip to Miami with my wife and on that one I got so lucky to spend a few hours with @SteveVT and go to a Miami area car show (it was just luck he was down in South Florida at the same time).

    The first Bay Area group meet I got to coordinate was with
    @Il Tifoso
    @losgatos789
    @root (met him prior when I got his Fabio remote mufflers)
    @stevepaa &
    @kvm

    Then when we did the Canepa meet up and lunch…many guys attended…and we got to add a few “new to me” guys to the mix.

    https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/threads/canepa-visit.691110/

    @Aerosurfer visiting from out of town
    @456dreamer
    @mjh &
    @TCBoiler

    Such a fun group of guys and I look forward to increasing the roster of those of you I get to meet in real life.
     
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  3. Ferrari55whoa

    Ferrari55whoa F1 Rookie
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    Please let’s use this thread to share stories past or present when we get to meet our forum friends out and about!
     
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  4. Bluebottle

    Bluebottle F1 Veteran
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    I have only met one of you IRL, when Jack came over for the Goodwood Members' Meeting last year:

    [​IMG]
     
  5. TwoMinds

    TwoMinds Karting
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    I'm at Goodwood FoS next Thursday, performance parking West.
     
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  6. Mirek

    Mirek Formula 3
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    Those are some sweet looking threads. I will be at the Concorso Italiano this year and hope to meet up.
     
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  7. tazandjan

    tazandjan Three Time F1 World Champ
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    Jul 19, 2008
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    Terry H Phillips
    Chas, one of the old-timers here, visited me in Albuquerque and so did Mat, who sells Ferrari wheels above in the professional ads. Good visits from both of them. The good news was nearly everybody, even Bugs Bunny, passed through Albuquerque.
     
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  8. TwoMinds

    TwoMinds Karting
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    I keep forgetting how comparatively rare our cars are. 360/430/458/488/F12 etc are relatively common around London and general car events, but I was the only 456/550/575 at a huge event like Goodwood (that I could see anyway). Less than 100 575Ms on the road in the UK and the trend is consistently down year on year.
     
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  9. Ferrarienthusiast71

    Ferrarienthusiast71 Formula Junior
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    456 and 550 owners are the best people in the world, passionate and classy and with the best taste
     
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