Open Letter to Carbon McCoy

Go Carbon, Go!!!

 

Go Carbon, Go!!!

 

Not a bad idea at all.

But given Carbon, it will be a two volume set:

Ferrari Enzo Ferrari Volume 1 -- The most wonderful car ever designed, with 7,000 pictures

Ferrari Enzo Ferrari Volume 2 -- Non-Black cars, with 15 pictures.

 

I’d also say that would be a great idea. He’s quite an artist so he can also provide some hand drawn illustrations. Come on Carboon, you can do this.

 

Yea! and you already have one purschased book, ill be sure to buy a copy

 

Wow... You guys are awesome, thank you, i'm flattered... Really, thank you...

Dave, unfortunately, i know very little about the Enzo... Sure, i know a few serial numbers and the names of some owners and where to find the assembly numbers and how to tell a Euro from a US spec... But this stuff is all elementary compared to what else there is to know... i just learned where to find the engine number stamping on Friday... i'm still learning about my favorite car and i'm still in the beginning stages of that learning process... If i'm lucky, the learning will never stop... As much as i like the Enzo, i don't know nearly enough about it to sit down and write a competent book that, A). someone would publish so that, B). people would buy it...

i really appreciate everyone's encouragement, but no one would buy a book with basic facts and pages and pages of over-enthusiastic ramblings of a nut job...

With that said, though, this thread definitely needs a picture... Thanks, guys...
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I'd buy it. To support your dream of 134282

 

Well start learning, id buy one if it meant you could finally get an enzo (plus you could write it off as a business expense )

 

Thanks, Chris... We could do a group buy... i'm sure i could get at least ten friends to buy it... And if selling the book would get me an Enzo, i would only have to charge each of you $100,000...


NWO, i am learning... i'm learning right now, but there's still so much more to learn... Right now, with all that i know, i still don't know enough to where i would have any business opening my mouth in a conversation amongst a bunch of people... i'm still at the stage where i need to stand there, shut up and listen... One day, hopefully, i'll know enough to open my mouth...

 

Isn't Carbon something of an accomplished artist? I seem to recall that he was good with a pencil, but any memory past last week is kinda...sketchy .

I can see it now.

The book arrives from Amazon.com after much anticipation.

My nerves jitter as I tear away the imprinted rip-strip in the cardboard packaging.

The smell of freshly cast ink and newly mulched paper delights my senses as I slide the shipping cover off of the book.

I patiently cast aside three or four-hundred Amazon coupons and offers for various products that I do not want.

And then, and then it is alone in all its glory, the massive book, thick with pages...heavy, high quality pages...all glossy, even on the edges...then I loudly exclaim

"I HAVE THE BOOK!"

And I hunches over, casting paranoid glances left, then right...pupils dialting out of sync with each other in a sure sign of...deeply rooted madness.

"I haves the precious...my precious..."

I then collect myself long enough to make note of the slip cover, which is all black. No, not just black, but satin black, with an ever so gentle embossing of a car that anyone miss under all but the most extraordinary of light, upon which is a massive three-letter pearlescent embossing in white, surrounded by a thin but shiny outline of chrome.

NNO
by Carbon McCoy.

I flip through the pages, examining hand drawn images of Enzo in various states of rest and work. Enzo talking to an engineer with a drawing of an engine in the background. Enzo tapping the ashes off his cigar as he thoughtfully considers something Ferrari, whilst a glass full of some amber liquid glistens in the lower right-hand frame of the drawing.

All good stuff.

Then! Then as I am dancing about exclaiming, "My precious, my precious!" to my audience of darkness and echos, and holding the book...no, not the book, but "my precious" an idea is beset upon my brain.

I should chose to look at precious....but not at precious...but at precious and what it has on the back leaf.

 

That was some funny stuff and Carbon is a bit of an artist
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Carbon:

You aren't getting off that easily! I understand your reticence to tackle the Enzo, but what about Jim G's P4? Of course Jim has to agree, but you never know until you ask. Jim has already done a lot of the hard work for you with his 100 pg paper on the subject and numerous posts and photos. You can write about his purchase of the car, how he realized it might 0846, and the restoration process. Then you can ask your buddies El Wayne and Gerald to put you in contact with recognized experts and interview them on their opinions, concerns and conclusions, etc.

I'm sure you see a lot of roadblocks, but the end result could be spectacular.

Think about it.

 

Heck, Id buy it

 

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!

MAJOR THREAD HIJACK TAKING PLACE

Bill, as Mr. Tranny Man, I have a question for you. Is is true that the auto in a 1998 MB E320 cannot be rebulit by mere mortals such as yourself. Don't ask me why I need to know, but it has something to do with a 17-year old son.

Dale

 

I thought Jim G. was planning to do a book on his P4 himself. Or wasn't it going to be about the P4; MkIV and T70 ?
Called "Three for the Road" maybe ? Jim ?

 

Not exactly true, you just have to be careful who does it. I'll try to call you. BTW, I don't build 'em,I just own the place...

 

Could be, but as long as the two books approach the subject from different angles that shouldn't be a problem.

 

Dave, you're right... And i try to speak up once in a while... i ask questions...


Hank, thank you for those kind words, i appreciate it...


Korr, LOL, you're nuts, but that was awesome...


Bill, that's a great idea and would certainly make for a very interesting book... Unfortunately, with as little as i know about Enzos, i know EVEN LESS about Jim's car... If anyone should write a book about his car, it should be him... He's certainly more qualified than i...


Thanks, Jonas...

 

Korr should also be a writer. There, I said it.

 

NNO for president!
Roland
F40LM

 

"Mr. President! Mr. President!"

*Yes, you, no, not you, I'm pointing to the possibly-discriminated-against-because-she's-on-the-chunky-side-lady. Yes, go ahead.*

"Thank you, Mr. President-For-Life, in your book, 'The Enzo is the Most Spectacularimificacious Car Ever. Period!' you wrote, and I quote, 'The Enzo is the most spectacularimificacious car, ever. Period!' Do you stand by that statement?"
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Hey, i love the guy too, but can you imagine his political party? dear lord....

--Dan