Jealous people WTF???

Wilson,

I'm sorry to hear about what happened.

In my ten years of driving various Ferraris about the Seattle area, I've had a few encounters with idiots like that, but nothing to severe.

Cars swerving at me on purpose to get a reaction and a few people yelling nasty comments has been the worst.

Overall, it's been mainly thumbs ups and waves.

Don't let those jealous few keep you from enjoying your car

 

Well that story sound's familiar, I also been spit on at Greenlake twice while I was jogging! I don't get it, maybe the tree huggers????? Driving a great gas mileage car like a Tr??? But for the must part, people are pretty good in my 3 years of ownership...

 

I park my cars in NW Portland and downtown several times a week, with generally no problems. However, it did look like someone spat on the 456 on NW 23rd a few months back. I just wiped it off and carried on-- not that big of a deal.

I used to park my Mondial downtown all day with the top off, and never had a problem. Overall, I think we have fewer problems in Portland than in many cities, at least from what I've read on FerrariChat.

I've also noticed that I seem to get much less attention than people in other areas, again based on what I've read on here. I will go for weeks or even months at a time without hearing a single comment, then I'll usually get three or four in a single day (gas station attendants excepted-- I've never been to a gas station in a Ferrari where I didn't end up fielding a bunch of questions).

 

Not yet, but I know who not to park next too!

 

I've been pretty lucky with my 360. Bird droppings, bugs, and fingerprints are about the only things that get on the car. Once I've caught ,in the mirror, a guy on the sidewalk spit toward my parked car as a sign of disrespect, but that's about it. A girl lay on the front of the 360 for a picture during a car show when hardly anyone's around. But that's a whole other story.

In general, people are pretty nice.

 

Yea people like that suck a$$! Why can't they just appriciate the fact that there's people out there that did right things and made it in life!! I mean I don't have a ferrari but when I see one i freak out and my friends too Im always the one telling them not to touch it so the owner doesnt come back to a Ferrari that has finger prints all over it!!

 

Someone left a bag of Chinese take-out on the hood of my 360 right after I got it. (at least it was still in the bag and not poured all over it)

I've had several people swerve at me, a few cut right in front of me on the freeway and slam on the brakes, a couple stop in front of me at intersections and wait for the light to turn red, then go leaving me at the light, a girl last week stopped right in front of me in the middle of a block for literally a minute or two (with no other traffic around), give me a nasty look in the rear view mirror, then slowly start driving again (no, I wasn't tail gating or doing anything less than polite). Most people only show positive feelings toward the car though. Let's face it, there are just a few pissed off, negative people in the world and every once in a while we're going to find one of them.

Enjoy your car!

 

YES, she did! I've still got the photos Willis in case you happened to misplace them.

Maybe she came back this year for more?

 

Actually, she had my permission and was very careful. See below pic by DJ.

The one I posted about earlier was back in 2001 during the Italian Concours at the Pier. Nobody around the cars, full body weight on the front hood and left a mark on a corner near the windshield, likely from a bracelet. No dents, thankfully.
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Now that pic make's the ferrari even hotter!!

 

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Wow John, sorry to hear that. I have never had a problem in any of the Ferraris........Perhaps its the G19 they can barely make out secured to my hip ..........however when I used to drive Porsches...........I had a myriad of problems as described above. Go figure???

 

Willis,
Can you please refrain from posting such smut on this chat board.....hahahahaha LOL

 

Hmm..maybe it's because your car's bright yellow? Does that also happen with your blue G?

 

Have had no negatives in the Boxer -mostlly the East Side but I did get my H2 Hummer door keyed by some open minded politically tolerant individual at Whole Foods (paycheck) in Bellevue.

 

Sorry to hear about the "other woman". I didn't know about that one. It's frustrating when some people choose not to respect something that belongs to someone else.

Maybe the second woman helps to make up for the first one?

 

That just might be it...I used to have a G22 that liked to accompany me, but I decided that it might be best to leave it home. (too many temptations)

 

Maybe it is the yellow. Never thought about it.

I occasionly find an idiot out there when driving the G, but most people just stop and stare with gaping mouths, or point, or poke at their friend who's with them to get them to look, etc; you know the drill.

 

Um, Gresham...

Hello?

 

almost everybody loves the Countach & the F40 & the Slutmobile

the 512tr coupe people are not as positive to, maybe its a stereotype ?

a friend of mine was standing in front of a hotel in SoBe while I was parking the Slutmobile & he told me somebody said "he's getting the attention he needs"

another time in front of another hotel in SoBe I was walking out to the Slutmobile as 2 avg 150 lb + American chicks were approaching. The valet asked them "are you getting in that car?" They both said "we're not getting in THAT car" but there body language was saying something else.

I didnt really care as I had a little Brazilian chick getting in hotter than both of them together

 

Maybe it's a Miami Vice thing?