Best wife/gf quotes about your Ferrari?

"Why won't you tell me how much you paid for it?"

....after my response of "Don't worry about it"

 

My wife refers to the 308 as having "holes in the doors" (the air/oil cooler intakes).

She doesn't like cars with "holes in the doors". She keeps threatening to "fill them with Bondo," or "stuff tennis balls in them." She thinks that some kind of back yard game should be made out of tossing tennis balls and trying to land them in 308 intakes.


I suggested selling the 308 and buying a Testarossa. All she said was two words:

"Cheese graters."


Aston Martin:

"Grrrrrrrr." (making a face that mimics the car's grille)


We were listening to the song "Feels Just Like it Should" by Jamiroquai. She said, "He's looking for a faster Jeep!"


I love her.

 

"What a tincan..." ,after first ride in a Scuderia...

 

It's like an old race horse: you know it really wants to go. It probably has a few more races in it, but it just may die....

I'm changing the timing belts now.

 

Wife saw mine after I owned it for 8 months (keep it in a different location)...

Me: "So what do you think of it?"

Her: (pause) "It's nice (with the tone of - "...I guess")"

Me: "NICE? It is a lot of things, but simply calling it "nice" wouldn't be one of my first thoughts..."

 

When I was car shopping looking for a 4 passenger car that could carry home a weeks worth of groceries and "drove right" and had test driven various new cars that either were too small, or did not drive right, or were only available with automatics etc. I was browsing ebay with thoughts of a Fiat or Alfa Coupe sedan or wagon and had clicked all Italian cars, my wife came in as I was musing about a 1982 Mondial that was about 300 miles from home that I suspected would "drive right" and was under the car budget amount and she asked what I was looking at. I showed her the listing on the Mondial--then she asked "Would you drive it?" I said "Of Course" and she said "Go for it." and left the room.
I then sat there thinking did I hear what I though I heard--I think my wife just told me to go buy a Ferrari.
Next morning I called the dealer that had it listed and my Credit Union, put the car trailer on the back of the truck, and went for a road trip, a test drive, negotiations and loaded it on the trailer for the return trip. It was a long profitable day.
Of course I had only desired a Ferrari for over 30 years.
And yes it gets driven regularly about 5000 miles a year.

 

I should note, my wife actually shopped for a Mondial first. She Googled it, I looked on the FCA. Rather than spending 1K on flight, I found one 4 miles away. She held the 2-month old while I drove it, then we switched.

Damn she's great.

 

My g/f got in it with the mandatory bottle of water and asked where the cup holder was. I said there isn't one.

Her response. "and you paid HOW MUCH for this car?"

 

Haha, good thread! Keep them coming.

 

I took another girl for a ride about a month back. While we were driving she said "What's the matter with your car? The engine's so LOUD! Is it supposed to sound like that?"

 

Blonde?

 

The engine's so LOUD! Is it supposed to sound like that?"

Yes. it's so I can't hear you...

 

348spider

Why did they call it after such a creepy insect?????????

Why do you always start in 2nd gear is 1st broken lol

 

"If you can get a Ferrari, I want new furniture."
"Mr. Ferrari"

My response: It's DR. Ferrari!

 

The response when I dropped a huge chunk of change for my 612 Scaglietti:

"It doesn't look like a Ferrari."

Dang it!

Traded it 6 months later (regretfully).

 

At the Mile Miglia 11 years ago I was with an American family who entered an early Ferrari which just would not run right, it stubbornly refused, kept having problems no matter how much work was done, finally the owner's wife came up with an all time classic:

"Shoot the poor car."

 

Great thread.

 

When what turned out to be 0846 arrived at WWOC on a Friday Evening and was taken out of it's shipping container I told Sal before we decided what to do I wanted to drive it a bit.

He felt in the condition it arrived it was totally unsafe so he stayed up all night and took it completely apart including de riviting the alloy inner panels. By the next morning it was simply a collection of parts strewn around the garage.

I arrived early with my Wife and Daughter to show them our new car.

Meg looked at the collection of parts turned to me and said:

"It's Lovely."

She then took our Daughter Horse Back riding and left me with Sal.

 

LOL!

--Grant

 

OMG is that it? that thing it looks old! later she says its loud is it always this loud?....
am i always going to smellgas ?
i smell like gas now ?
your shirt smells like gas !
how much was this ?

gary
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I knew the first impression would be the key. I'd been looking at 400i's and she said "why don't you buy something pretty" and referred to my brothers Triumph Spitfire. So when I got the Mondial home I asked her what she thought. She said "it is very pretty" I knew I was safe. Recently I suggested we take it on an errand across town. She said "OK we can take the uncomfortable car"

 

My wife consistently says, especially when we pass one on the road:

"I'm glad you got this one (meaning the 308) and not one like that (meaning Porsche 911 or Boxster) because they all look like jelly beans".

Phil

 

Does she find the drivers seat uncomfortable wink wink hint hint?

 

In her native language................"Хороший автомобиль, что это такое?"
translated...........Nice car, what is it?