Just bought my FIRST!

Wow! What a great adventure this is! I'm awaiting delivery (cross-country) of my first Ferrari - a '95 348 Spider, Red/Tan. I'm thrilled! (Is is Friday yet?) Just wanted to say a quick thanks to those who've responded to several posts I have done, with special mention to ILuv4Res, 348SStb, and Kevallino for their answers to my incessant PM'd questions. Now, after I gain some experience, I'm looking forward to making some contributions on this board.

 

congratulations, the wait is now the really hard part. post pics!!!!

 

congrats, lets see some pictures soon.

 

Hi Rick,

No problem with the help!! Anytime for a F-chat member!!!

Enjoy the car!!!

Fred

 

Your gonna like it!!

 

I love mine!!! Good choice!!!

 

This has got to be one of the slowest weeks I've ever experienced....a week waiting for the first Ferrari.

 

Dude..It's Friday...Today probably will slower than the rest of the week until you get her!!!

 

Actually, today is Thursday.

 

Probably for the best that it waits until Friday. Now is the time to get the garage cleaned out.

When you get it, you will NOT want to be bothered with work or anything else, nor will you want to leave it alone for that long.

Get it Friday. Drive all day (or what's left of the day once delivered), drive it at night. Go to sleep late, but waking up every so often to peek into the garage to look at it. Wake up early on Saturday to clean it. Then off for some more driving until Sunday. When Monday comes, it will be difficult to part with your new baby for the day.

Oh, by the way, at some point, taking pictures for the F-chat crowd is necessary.

 

Congratulations, Rick. Drive it in good health.

Barry

 

Rick, did you get it???

 

congrats...I hope to buy a 348 sometime soon too

 

we need pics, make us jealous!!!!!

 

Wow - I just went through my old PM's today and was wondering if you'd found something!!! Congratulations and enjoy - I see you're in San Diego so there are some nice roads east of you to wring 'er out a bit.

Oh, and be sure to support F-chat's new title sponsor and put a Tubi on it if it doesn't have one already!

Cheers
Kevin

 

Congratulations! Now you know what I went through last March. Funny thing is, once my car arrived, the insurance was not in place yet so I had to let it sit in my garage for a full week before I was able to drive it! Talk about a tough wait. I hope you don't have to go through that.

 

Awesome car. 348 here too. You have to post pics once you get it. I would like to get some good of pics of my car done, as soon as the shipping company re-emburses me for putting a hole in my front bumper! I would welcome you to the 348's owners club but one of our other members will give you the formal welcome to the brotherhood.
Congrats!

 

It is an amazing feeling isn't it?
I bet every owner of f cars will always remember the first time they drive their cars, to be a proud owner of one. I certainly remember mine as it just happened last month. I was thrilled, excited and even trembling a bit when I drove from the dealer to my house that day. Awesome!!!

 

When I bought my 308GTS nearly 3 years ago it was the only one available here in Australia that fit my criteria (steel body, carby model GTS) and it was in a sad state so that it spent SIX long months at the workshop being put right. I would try and restrict myself to weekly visits to monitor the progress... When the shop called to say it was ready to pick up I was so nervous I had to get the mechanic to drive it to the Transport dept to get it registered and then back to my office. I refused to leave the office until the peak hour traffic had gone - colleagues joked I'd still be there Monday morning (this was Fri night). Finally I got into the car, shaking like a leaf, partly terrified that the dream now that it was finally coming true wouldn't be as fantastic as I'd dreamed for the past 20 years. Well by the time I got the 5k to home I'd come to terms with the gear box and was grinning like a complete idiot! It was everything I'd imagined, but I just put it away that night and went upstairs to bed so I could run down the next morning and it would be just like Christmas. I still get a thrill everytime I open the garage door and find my very own 308 waiting for me!

 

You should also call in sick on Monday and maybe Tuesday and drive it then too!! the three most beautiful words in the English lunguage...That's my Ferrari!!

Enjoy it

 

Welcome to the 348 brotherhood.

 

Yeah, even told my wife that I would not be spending that night in bed but in my new 328 instead, you wouldn't wanna know her immediate impulsive reply!!!
I spend my spare time just staring at it in every angle, we often have friends in for drinks normally in the house but lately always persuade them to have it in the garage so that I could spend hours on end looking and talking about it.
I don't think anyone who doesn't own a Ferrari will experience the joy and thrill of it. I used to drive a Porsche, XK8 Jag and never once someone approached me asking to have a look or enquired about the car. But since I have had mine last month people stared, murmured, gazed, droolled some came up and asked to be seatedm, poked in to have a look and wanted a long conversation about the car.
I was there and playing their role before and it is now very nice and honoured to be a proud owner of it. I have stopped washing my cars for nearly 20 years now as I have a driver doing it but with my new baby here I just had to star it all over again.

 

Some pix for my f-chat helpers! Thanks guys!

 

Where?!

Anyways, congratulations on your 348! Use it to the fullest and don't let it be a garage queen!!!!

 

Hey Rick!

If you need help posting the pics let us know...