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

[LS (lashdeep]

I've had a lot of cool cars that I wish I never sold. But the number one
was my '76 308GTB.

The Ferrari was the culmination of a childhood dream. It also coincided
with a time in my life when my fear for repair bills hadn't caught up with
my bravado behind the wheel.

LS

--- Larry B <larrybard [at] hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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-
> 
> 
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