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

[Martin Stark (MStark]

My first car was a 1955 XK-140M roadster.  I Shelby-ized it with a 
Pontiac T425A racing engine w/3 deuces.  I loved the way that sleeper 
blew the doors off the muscle cars of its day.

LS wrote:

> 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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