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

[Jim's Email (jimshadow]

The bestest car I've owned to date was my '95 M3.  TONS of fun.  Drove the
absolute hell out of it and it never let me down. Great car!

JIM
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Greenfield" <alfaguy [at] acme-ltd.com>
To: "JIM" <jimshadow [at] verizon.net>
Cc: "'Sullivan, Nora'" <Nora.Sullivan [at] uvm.edu>; "'The FerrariList'"
<ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] what was you most bestest car?


> Tony -
>
> Except for the time that you gave me a ride down to CT to pick up my brand
> new CRX Si, and the alfetta burned a valve (or a hole in a piston, don't
> remember which) trying to keep up with me on the way home :-)
>
> I felt the same way about Alfa GTV-6 though. When that car was properly
> sorted out, and the driveline was right it was a great car, until a kid in
a
> pickup truck rear ended it and it was a total.
>
> You could drive that car at 80+ MPH with the sunroof open and all the
> windows down and there was no wind noise at all. The dual A/C when working
> properly would freeze you out of the car on the hottest days too.
>
> I also liked the real ratty Giulietta spider that I owned for a short
while.
>
> Jeff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colli, Anthony G. [mailto:Anthony.Colli [at] uvm.edu]
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 10:27 AM
> To: Ken Rentiers
> Cc: The FerrariList; Jeff Greenfield; Sullivan, Nora
> Subject: RE: [Ferrari] what was you most bestest car?
>
> 1975 Alfa Romeo Alfetta Sedan  Most people thought they were junk, but
> had never driven one.
>
> I was in my 20's working as a mechanic for another lister, Jeff
> Greenfield. He and I did suspension and motor/exhaust upgrades and with
> out the heavy rubber bumpers that car handled like a dream. It could
> easily be wound right up to redline in all but 5th gear. I beat that car
> every day for years and it never let me down. I hit a deer with it and
> was rear ended in it, both were fixed with a hammer, porta-power and
> rustoleum. I still drove it when it looked like crap. I didn't care what
> it looked like, it handled so well and sounded so good it was heaven
> behind the wheel.
>
> I really miss that car.
>
> -Anthony
> Vermont
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Rentiers [mailto:rentiers [at] mac.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 12:29 AM
> To: Colli, Anthony G.
> Cc: The FerrariList
> Subject: [Ferrari] what was you most bestest car?
>
> 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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