Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Ferrari List of olde

[Steve Cook (SCook]

Howdy!

I don't remember if I ever told the story of starting the F-List, but
here goes a quick rundown of how I remember it :)

The idea started in mid 1995.  I was a member of the original Porsche
List (before it was Rennlist, and still run by one guy that raced 914s),
and often though about starting a mailing list for Ferrari owners. On a
trip up to Colorado with some college friends I was telling them about
it and they said that I could start a list using my school email
account: So, over 14.4 modem, I started Ferrari [at] nmt.edu.  Within a few
months there were about 50 subscribers and I met with a couple of them
at the F50 introduction at the Texas World Speedway (I think it was Ric
Rainbolt and Gian Luigi Buitoni).

[btw, interesting side note, Paul Frame was the one that got the 1st
F50, and now he's currently in jail for fraud (or accounting
'irregularities') http://sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr18177.htm
http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2005/10/24/daily46.html ]
 
It grew from there, and peaked with over 1000 members after it was
mentioned several times in Forza magazine and popular website.  It
stabilized around 800 after that. During that peak, the school said it
was taking up too much bandwidth, so I found a host that was "cheap" and
moved it to softhome.net. It was a little pricey, but there were many
list donations in '99 that paid for pretty much all of the costs.  

In 2000/01, after talking with Steve Jenkins about developing a website
with him, we had a dedicated server that I could use to host the site,
so FerrariList.com was actually put to use.  I also went to Hallet 2000
(the second year) and met all the listers that were there (including you
Rick :).

Joe Martz was the one that brought his yellow Diablo (he had a black
Countach for Hallett 99)  You can see Joe on the History Channel and
Discovery whenever there is a special about Los Alamos - in addition to
being a nuclear scientist, he's one of their PR reps and tells great
stories. I'm not sure if he's on the list yet, but I did see him a month
ago at a local FCA-NM Region meeting in Santa Fe (in a silver Diablo).

Now that the list is off of Majordomo, it's much easier to manage. It's
hosted at TigerTech.net now - so I don't have to manage spam, email,
etc. I'll be moving the old site to the new server, with archives, in a
few weeks - so searching the archives will be back online.

Forza!
-steve




-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Lindsay [mailto:rolindsay [at] yahoo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 2:19 PM
To: Steve Cook
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: [Ferrari] Ferrari List of olde

Hello Friends,
     I was just wondering how many of the OLD Ferrari List people are
still here, or perhaps have rejoined.  I signed up in 1996 and we were a
tiny list then.  My first e-friend there was Peter Henrys in Melbourne
Australia.  Peter introduced me to Formula 1.  We keep in touch to this
day, if far too infrequently.  We also visit, at least for a dinner out,
every time I go to Melbourne to work the Grand Prix.  Steve Cook is of
course member #1 being the List owner.  I didn't meet Steve face-to-face
until the summer of 2004.  Great guy with a great family.  
     I think the next List member I met face-to-face was Ric Rainbolt.
Ric and Wendy are also still close friends.  We've also owned the same
car a few times. :-P
     We had a track event (driver's school) at Hallett, Oklahoma about 7
or 8 years ago.  Lots of new faces to meet then.  Matt Boyd, whom I
bought Dave's Mondial from, came westward to Hallet as did many others.
Off the top of my head I remember Ian and Claudia, Robert Rehkopf,
Charles Perry and Ric Rainbolt.  Who was that guy from the Los Alamos
Lab?  Can't remember his name.  Did Patrick Norris attend that first
event?  Who have I forgotten?
     Somewhere around the turn of the century a lot of us met in Modena
then went on to tour the factory.  That's where we first met many more
friends face-to-face - especially the European friends.  Included were
Rui Gigante, Antony Shine, Francis Newman and numerous others.  I
believe we numbered 24 when we passed through the hallowed gates onto
the factory floor.  From there we traveled with Charles and Buck Perry.
We met up with Rui and Ana up in the lakes area north of Milan the next
day. Most of our time was spent ogling over the F40 in the parking lot.
Two weeks later and dead broke, we returned to the States.
     We did another track event a year or two later.  Patrick Norris
organized that event. Rui and Ana Gigante were over visiting us from
Portugal.  I can't remember who attended that event.  Did we do three of
these?  I remember having a rallye on the Sunday after one event.
    We met Robert Rehkopf for a rally in Arkansas a year or two after
that.  My son Allen navigated for him, as I recall.  Allen is now a
nuclear physicist in New Mexico, busy attending the college where Steve
Cook graduated.
    Why have I written all this crap?  Well, Nancy and I are traveling
to Portugal this weekend to spend another week with Rui and Ana.  Our
goal is to spoil their two-year-old daughter rotten, then come home.
:-)  The whole thing has me in old-man mode reminiscing over days
passed.
   
  With best regards,
   
  rick
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