If this has been posted here my apologies, if not enjoy it’s a good read....
If this has been posted here my apologies, if not enjoy it’s a good read. https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15142347/ferrari-reinvents-manifest-destiny-pj-orourke-and-a-ferrari-308gts-archived-feature/
I love it. It's one of my favorite articles. You gotta love the 80's. The perfect mix of culture and tech.
He wasn't aware that the car was for a pilot TV show (the Magnum p.i pilot), he was under the impression that it was for a film titled: "Don't Eat The Snow In Hawaii" (which he thought was an odd title for a film - He found out later that it was actually the Magnum p.i pilot episode)
((There's nary a gear in the box where the Ferrari will do 55 with pleasure, and the luggage space wouldn't make a good ice bucket...) Man, he was FUNNY! RIP, PJ.
That's a great article! You really get a sense of a different time. I didn't read it in 1980, but I do remember reading it later in the 1980s. Probably sometime after I turned 16 & Magnum P.I. was a hit on TV.
It was one of three or four used in the pilot. There is a thread here that had a count on it from that episode.
Here it is https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/threads/magnums-first-ferrari-revisited-interesting.490589/
