MANY thanks to "Lukek"

I'm a fairly new F-car owner and found out today how helpful others can be. Thanks very much to Luke K for all the help today!

I took Luke up on his F-Chat offer to swap a drive in his classic 1963 250 GTE for a drive in my '95 F355. I met him at lunch today and just as I pulled in the parking lot I got a flat tire on the rear of the Spider ( I suspect that one of the tire-damage spikes at the parking lot entrance did not retract into the ground, since the puncture was a good inch wide and fairly clean and obviously recent). We had to put our swap-drive on hold and then, being a true good sport, Luke helped me over the next couple of hours as we got the tire fixed. The flat could not be fixed by the compressed air bottle/fixer that is standard on the 355 - I discovered it sucks to have no spare and no jack.

But no flat-bed tow truck for me! Luke was kind enough to put the 250 GT to work. We drove to his home to get a jack and lug wrench. We drove back to the parking lot. We jacked up the car, took off the wheel and put it in the trunk of his classic 12-cylinder! He drove me to Wheel Works (thanks for the patch guys!), Luke even bought us both sandwhiches, and drove me and my patched tire back to the parking lot to re-install. Now that our time had been taken up, I had to drive off without ever getting Luke behind the wheel of the 355 Spider. I felt bad that we couldn't get to the fun driving we wanted to, and I realized that not too many people get roadside assistance from a 1963 Ferrari!

Luke, you are a gentleman and a scholar! I look forward to getting you out to Danville to drive the 355 around...that is, if you can stand to put aside the new Maserati for a few minutes.