Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Tom's Car Quest

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In a message dated 2/28/2007 5:16:27 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
ferrari-request [at] ferrarilist.com writes:

Not  going to spend the same money.  There's the rub.  I paid $26K for  Mario
back in '98.  No way I can do that now.  I spent $21. on a  PPI today in Sand
Springs/Prattville, OK. Guy spent about an hour looking  it over AND gave it
a test drive.  :)  Vast amounts of  time?  Yeah, but it's fun, kinda, but
it's hard to pin down as to what  I want/can live with. And afford.  Yeah,
contradictory terms. Think  I'll keep looking, now that I know that I like
that Hurst shifter and  optional exhaust.  (But I'll know that when I  hear
it.)




Tom
 
As for car searches, you and I are so much alike it hurts. Due diligence  
seems to offend almost everyone in the car business for some reason, perhaps  
rightfully so in some cases. Sometimes I fell rather letdown after I buy the 
car  
(anti-climax syndrome) as I begin to enjoy the challenge of finding "just  
the right one" offsets the difficulties and the comparatively minimal costs of  
PPI's by reliable mechanics who will just stop when they find the deal killer  
and save you far more than the cost in post-purchase repairs, or who will  
reinforce you in your decision process if they pass the car and you get an  
example of a particular car that you want at a price you are willing to  pay.
 
There are days when I begin to think about changing out cars just to  
experience something nee, and then I read one of your postings about "Mario" 
and  
decide to just wait until I can pay for the next one rather than trade off one  
that I shall later regret. I already have enough of them (regrets) having  
disposed of (through my lifetime) a 69 Chrysler 300 with a balanced and  
blueprinted 440 engine, dual Carter AFB's, Insky cam and Edelbracht manifolds.  
the 
Austin Healy 100-LeMans with the windshield that had two positions, the 56  MB 
300d Sedan, and even my MG-B on given days. 
 
I guess that is how I ended up with the list of cars that I have, and that  
will probably continue to grow until I die or the road nazis take away my  
drivers' license.
 
Steve  

1964 Rolls  Royce Silver Cloud III    1975 Pontiac GV Conv.
1980 MB  450SL                 1982 RR  Corniche
1988 Rolls Royce Silver  Spur         1994 F-350 Powerstroke  4x4          
1996  Bronco                                  2000 Lincoln Town Car
1995 Ferrari 348  Spyder                 2004 Excursion
+ Audrey's 3x MB's

Dr. Stephen B. Spies, CES,  CFI
Director, Forensic Sciences Laboratory
Explosives Engineering  Technologies

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