Cavallino needs to have an annual socialist charity event, through the year 5% of other entries go to the costs of opening the gates for free. It will be like the local Cars & Coffee events. The GTO's will show up bigly for an event like that!
Yeah $480 per ticket is very accessible to car enthusiasts. We digress, perhaps this investment will bring benefits to the magazine too.
It seems that spectator admission rapidly went up from $50 to $75 to $150 to whatever stratospheric amount it's at today. Maybe it was to keep out the "riff-raff", but I'm certainly not that (heck, I even own a Ferrari myself) but when it got to $150 I said it was too high and I stopped going. Just because I own a (nearly 40-year-old) Ferrari doesn't mean I'm made out of money.
FYI at $450 it is still TOO crowded. I also think tickets are too expensive, but there is that much demand. FYI Pebble is too crowded and too expensive too. Maybe Cavallino just needs an entire golf course 20 cars a hole, $50 tickets, and they can hold 50x the people still increasing revenue.
I am not as concerned at the cost or number of people as I am at the diminishing number of special, vintage cars. If I want to see large displays of new models I'll go to a dealer.
Concorso Italiano near Montery has a lot of room and a lot of cars, and I saw that even they are charging $300, which is a lot more (even figuring for inflation) than when I last went in 2004.
Cavallino Classics recently expanded by announcing again a new event (Sydney, November 29th - December 1st). After the event in the United Arab Emirates with rows of "classic" Monza SP1, SP2 and Daytona SP3s, what is next? An event in China (rows of "classic" Purosangues)???
In January 2026 the new EV might be judged at the Concours in Palm Beach............before Tortellini will be served. Marcel Massini
Actually I had heard it is now 20 years old or more for judging. Everything else is there to look pretty.
The car as such is fabulous, not so much this cover........ Marcel Massini Image Unavailable, Please Login
Page 20, bottom right (not in the 250 LM article), it is claimed that coachbuilder Piero Drogo died at the wheel of 250 GT LWB California Spider chassis number 1501 GT. The information about Drogo crashing 1501 GT is incorrect. Drogo was not driving 1501 GT, he had sold this Cal Spider one year earlier already (April 1972) and at the time of the fatal crash (28 April 1973) near Bologna (Italy) 1501 GT was parked in East Montpellier, VT/USA. Marcel Massini
New issue #266: They still need a professional proof reader and a bit more knowledge about chassis numbers, especially about the cars in their own event. Marcel Massini
It's ok, they draw a much younger crowd now and have Ferrari's official support. Silly little details don't matter!