Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Just how fast is an F50 really??

[LS (lashdeep]

Bubba, 600lbs is huge...that thing must really be a lot of fun.

Bring it to the national meet this summer!

LS

--- red5hilser [at] aol.com wrote:

> Hey Doug: Right again, my friend. But it was closer to 70mph. I learned
> this the day Tom Reynolds and I swapped GT4s for an afternoon tour of
> the wine country of Baja Arizona, down around Elgin. There (IMHO) was no
> difference in performance until Tom started to creep ahead of me about
> 70mph in his 308 'Mario' although I was shifting @ 7.5K rpm. We traded
> cars and the same thing happened. That extra litre sure pays off. On the
> bright side though, in each car I was always faster in stopping and
> tasting the fine wines of the region. Hell, Tom was just getting out of
> his car when I was ordering my 2nd glass. No 'short dogs' in a paper
> sack around there. Damn - how I miss L.A. and Skid Row.
>  
> Yer pal, Ferrari Bubba
>  
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dnt [at] dock.net
> To: red5hilser [at] aol.com
> Cc: ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com
> Sent: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 7:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Just how fast is an F50 really??
> 
> 
> AND, you forgot to say this, its just as fast up to about 80 or 90 as a
> 308 then runs out of legs. Your car is quite agile and a joy to drive. 
> DOUG 
>  
> ----- Original Message ----- From: <red5hilser [at] aol.com> 
> To: "DOUG" <dnt [at] dock.net> 
> Cc: <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com> 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 8:59 PM 
> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Just how fast is an F50 really?? 
>  
> > My Euro 208 Shitbox is 600 lbs. lighter than the Federalized American
> 308 > version. No smog, no cats, no steel crash protection in the body,
> no nada. > All they did was to paste a mph over the KPH dial on the
> speedo. 
> > yer pal, Ferrari Bubba 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: ferrarilist [at] pless.com.au 
> > To: red5hilser [at] aol.com 
> > Cc: ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com 
> > Sent: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 9:08 PM 
> > Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Just how fast is an F50 really?? 
> > 
> > 
> > I weighed the F40 I had(ten million years ago) with a full tank of
> fuel. 
> > 1230kg. No cats, sliding windows. Euro model. (just like the handbook
> book 
> > claims) 
> > 
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: LS [mailto:lashdeep [at] yahoo.com] 
> > Sent: Monday, 2 April 2007 11:33 PM 
> > To: Peter Pless 
> > Cc: The FerrariList 
> > Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Just how fast is an F50 really?? 
> > 
> > Has anyone (Ric) seen scaled weights for a US F40 and non-US F40? 
> > 
> > I was reading an article stating that cats and bumpers account for the
> > extra 
> > weight. I'm wondering what, exactly, that weight amounts to. 
> > 
> > Thanks, 
> > LS 
> > 
> > --- Fellippe Galletta <fellippe.galletta [at] gmail.com> wrote: 
> > 
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