Ferrari Mailing List: Re: what was you most bestest car?

[Larry B (larrybard]

Simca Aronde.  Probably late '50s vintage.  Used it to wander for three 
months around Europe in summer of 1970 while between schools.  Good friend 
from college, who was attending medical school in Montpelier, talked me out 
of the foolish idea of getting a motorcycle to tour Europe, and instead 
found the Simca for me to buy -- for $100 -- after I hitchihiked from Paris 
to visit him in Montpelier.  Never had previously driven a manual 
transmission, so learned on it there and then.  It served admirably, just 
barely getting me through the Italian Alps (Simplon Pass, I think).  Gave me 
remarkable freedom and flexibility -- no need to be tied to the center of 
cities by travelling on a Eurail Pass; instead I could serendipitously 
stumble upon some small, incredible family guesthouse in the middle of 
nowhere, with no menus but just the family indicating (since I could 
passably speak no Italian nor anything else besides English) that I should 
just leave the choice of foods up to them, and I was grandly rewarded for 
doing so.  Ended up donating the Simca to the Austrian government, through 
another friend who was Austrian, before I returned to the states.

Larry

> From: Ken Rentiers <rentiers [at] mac.com>
>
> OK: of all the cars you have ever owned, bought and sold what is that
> one car you miss most? The one you wish you still had never sold? The
> one you really loved. Some cars you like better than others, but I'm
> talking about that one car that spoke to you, whether it was just a
> very special time of your life or the car it's ownself.
>
> For me
>         1969 Alfa Romeo 1750 Spider...
>
> Weber carbs, it had the actual lucite headlamp covers. Used to push
> it over the mountain passes of the Pacific NW at night, stars out,
> top down and heater blasting  to go and see a long-forgotten
> girlfriend. I never think of her now, but I still miss the damn car.
>
> -ken-