Drove my "new" 355F1 home yesterday from Redwood City. CA. Here is a link to it...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1-QHnyh6Fg Bought the car in early july, sight unseen after viewing it online. since i was out of the country. This weekend, finally i able to fly up to san francisco on friday to drive it back down to oceanside, ca. It just so happened that this weekend was the monterrey car event and heading back home on friday, turned off hwy 101, hit the 1, pacific coast hwy and made it to carmel, then after sitting in traffic for 30 minutes and deciding i wasn't prepared for spending time at the show, made a U-turn towards the 101 and continued my trip to oceanside. On the way back, i noticed many nice classic cars and quite a few friendly Ferrari drivers, who waved to me, which made me feel like i was missing out on meeting some really good people! Hope to meet some of you over the next year and make the trip back up to Monterrey in 2015. After the fresh new fuel went through the system, the car ran fine. When i decided to drive the car back home i mistakenly thought it was 350 miles, then after i bought the ticket, realized it was a 500 mile drive!.... a long drive, though that's not always a bad thing, especially in a "new" Ferrari. Glad i drove it home rather than having the car shipped. As a note, on the highway drive back home, i noticed people seem to treat a Ferrari , at least an older one differently they they do with my 2103 jaguar xkr. With the xkr, on any given drive, there is always some honda or audi or mustang looking to shoot in front of me and play a game. With the 355, people just looked and in the fast lane, moved over and let me drive right on by. Even the cops were cool, with all the summer traffic, only had the car up to 115 or so a couple of times on the trip home, then late at night was going about 90, so confident with the radar detector, then suddenly a car came up from behind, which must have been running well over 100 slowed down on my passenger side and as i looked over at it, could clearly see the CHP (california hwy patrol) emblem plastered on the driver door! Immediately i hit the brake and he pushed on the gas pedal and continued speeding on. Wonder if he would have given me a break in the jag... probably not. Anyway, there were 3 times CPH came up running fast behind me then passed on by and the detector never gave a signal.
Beautiful car, Ken. Couple of rules we use on our F-1 is to: On start, let the engine warm to at least 120 degrees or more prior to engaging the clutch. Next, at any stop light or in heavy stop/go traffic, put the transmission in neutral. Enjoy your new car. DJ
Congrats on the new ride, hope she treats you well I do the Long Beach to Mission hwy into Fallbrook run with my 355 early sat mornings. Nice to be all alone of that beauty of a ride
Congratulations Ken. There is a group called, "JustDriveIt" out of San Marcos that has drives almost every Sunday morning. I sometimes join them if they're heading north toward Idyllwild or Julian. Vas, the organizer, also has a F355. PM me if you're interested and I'll refer you to him. Henry
