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Bill- One thing for sure, you get your money's worth out of a car. The Bertone 250 GT SWB had over 100,000, IIRC. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
yup... My very first hundred thousand mile car was a 55 Thunderbird manual transmission The picture above of 3269 was on Mulholland right by my house you can see I cut the license plate down to fit. Nobody ever gave me any trouble Lucky.
Bill- 3269 looked great in any color. Not even sure which is my favorite. Looks like she was at least two colors while you owned her.
The blue on Mulholland Drive is not a true color. It was dark blue just a bad printing of a picture. When I first got it, it was silver with a slight tint of green in it. I was doing stunt driving on Charlie's Angels. The assistant Director was a big car guy so he came at lunch one day and pulled back the rubber inside the door and told me that it was one dark blue so I had it painted dark blue so in my own ship, it was silver dark blue and the maroon was the last color I had it painted .. Dean Jefferies famous car guy here did the paint for me in that maroon color. He also rebuilt the nose I was playing down at the Hilton hotel in Los Angeles came out one night after work, and someone backed into and smashed the nose ... so Dean rebuilt it from pictures. He really got it pretty perfect. He was very cool guy.
Bill, I love stories like this, thanks for sharing. You are definitely on the SoCal group lunch invite list for whenever I end up getting a hall pass to get down there! I’ll be frank….I am still a little sad I had my family with me when I got to meet Terry because I enjoyed the time he shared so much I could have chatted and listened for days!
Hey Terry, you might enjoy this. You as well, Eric...It's the original thread when I first joined FERRARI chat and I was looking for my old car. https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/threads/my-first-ferrari-250-gt-swb-one-off-3269-gt.259405/
I remember that thread, Bill. I also remember a picture of you in one of your cars that The Beach Boys used for an LP cover.
haha Long time ago, Barry it wasn't my car. I was just the model in the car with the girl ... turned out to be a pretty famous album and when I started playing with my son, we ended up playing surf music something I thought I would never ever do
Bill- That was a great thread and it brought out a lot of famous names in the Ferrari world like Ed Niles and Marc Sonnery. I see what you mean about her being dark blue rather than that TDF looking photo. I still think she was the prettiest Ferrari built, and on a SWB chassis, too. The disappearing Cavallinos under the nose and on the grille are interesting, too. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
It was never under the nose with me always in the grill. I just sent it to the guy who bought from the guy in Switzerland it's back in the United States
I don’t have it Barry. It’s on the album. Journey To The Stars by the Ventures might be able to look it up somewhere.
Yup, when I was playing with my son more recently, as I said we were playing surf music must've played those two songs 1000 times.... When we were playing with Skunk Baxter, he loved those two songs. Sometimes we played them twice at the same gig. I would look at him and laugh, and he would say they don't know the difference talking about the audience. You're the man when it comes to finding things specially musical.
Terry - Instrumental Rock was at its zenith in the early 1960s. There were no vocal tracks to relegate the instrumental tracks to the background with an occasional guitar or drum solo. See my reply to Bill below for an instrumental song you, with your aviation background, would relate to. Bill, I'm sure Telstar by The Tornados was also in your set list... Your wrists had a good workout with that one, huh?
