Ferrari Mailing List: Re: First drive in my 328 GTS

[Steve Jenkins (steve]

Seriously - my favorite Ferrari List posts are these ones. First driving
impressions of a new (and particularly your first) Ferrari. I am extremely
happy for you, Rui. Thanks for sharing this post and letting us enjoy her
with you! Have you posted pictures anywhere?

Best,

SteveJ

-----Original Message-----
From: Rui Gigante [mailto:rui.gigante [at] gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 9:45 AM
To: Steve Jenkins
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: [Ferrari] First drive in my 328 GTS


Hi listers,


last friday (local holiday) I had the first drive in my 328 GTS.
Besides the obvious excitement, I had a LOT of fun. Here are a couple of
first impressions:

- forget about "low profile"! I felt like half of the world was looking at
me (ok, maybe more )

- did about 200Km in it. At night I was tired .. that thing is physical !!

- At the highway I was doing about 110 Km/h and a Porsche Boxter approched
quickly. When he spotted the Ferrari, braked hard my my side, waved, got one
down and left. I guess he wanted to play :-)

- I've adapted to the car very quickly, I think. Did a few gear changes at
about 5-6K rpm. I loved it !

- when hot, the car is a bit difficult to start, unless I step on the gas.
No problem when cold (see my other mail requesting K-Jetronic info)

- the windows are ssllllooooowwww.... a rebuild is scheduled, with Rick
Lindsay's help

- getting into second is not that difficult when cold, or at least I didn't
need to go 1st-3rd ...

- did I say I've loved every minute of it ?


I just hope that next weekend the weather is good .... :-)


Rui
328 GTS
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