Ferrari Mailing List: Re: A room full of FXX's

[Ferrarisimo [at] hotmail.com (ferrarisimo]

The Swap and Shop car belongs to Preston Henn, a cantankerous, good  
old boy from Ft. Lauderdale.  Been around those parts since it was  
all still swamp, probably bought his share from the indians  
themselves.  Even the Swap and Shop Flea Market (by day) and Drive in  
(by night) would worth a bloody fortune - just in real estate.

He threw the circus out a year or so ago, and now has part of his car  
collection on display - neat selection of Ferrari and Porsche with  
several of the race cars he's driven over the years.

Sounds like the event is just like the event at Homestead - although  
we only had about a half dozen of the F1 Corsa Cliente cars and 8 or  
9 FXXs along with the Challenge and historic race.  It is ALWAYS a  
great weekend.

Scottie

On Jun 8, 2007, at 4:21 PM, Steve Jenkins wrote:

> DITTO! Holy cow, I would have fainted and dropped an entire box of  
> Cocoa
> Puffs (TM).
>
> SJ
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jimshadow [at] verizon.net [mailto:jimshadow [at] verizon.net]
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 11:46 AM
> To: Steve Jenkins
> Cc: The FerrariList
> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] A room full of FXX's
>
>
> WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Jim
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Britt2Asa [at] aol.com
>
> Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:37:00
> To:JIM <jimshadow [at] verizon.net>
> Cc:The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
> Subject: [Ferrari] A room full of FXX's
>
>
> So today is the first day of "Ferrari Racing days" at Silverstone
> celebrating
> Ferrari and the FOC UKs 60th/50th birthdays. Weekend of racing at
> Silverstone
> plus a huge club gathering and an attempt for a guiness book of  
> records
> tomorrow with the most ferraris on the track at one time.
>
> Its cold and cloudy and not a lot of FOC people showed up today.  
> All day is
> practice and quaifying for the various ferrari club races/Historic
> racers/Challenge racers ect. A good gaggle of F1 cars, about 30 F430
> challenge cars, ect.
> I am wandering through the pits, in and out taking pictures. Nobody  
> cares
> where you go or what you look at. No guards are stopping you and  
> pits are
> open to
> everyone (though 99% of the people there were with the racing teams. I
> wander
> past a slew of recent Ferrari road cars including the 612 Police  
> car that
> they
> have here in the UK. Wander past a pretty Veyron sitting behind the  
> pits in
> black and creme (The Veyron looks fantastic in person, much much  
> better than
>
> the pics show. Its a small smooth, beautiful car and looks great in  
> the
> colours
> of a skunk!).
>
> I see Massimo Fedeli in front of one of the Corse Clienti buildings  
> that
> Ferrari has set up at the pits. Say "Hi Massimo, hows it going?"  
> Massimo is
> worried about the record attempt on Saturday. He really wants it to  
> happen
> here in
> the UK for bragging rights. We chat a little. I ask him where the  
> FXX's are.
> He
> says go look in Pit garages 1A-1C; the doors are closed but  
> unlocked. I
> wander over and open the door. Inside are 8 FXX's all sitting on their
> airjacks,
> wheels off, doors and bonnets open and nobody else in the garage but a
> grumpy
> Itailian mechanic. (The FXX's fill the entire garage). Mechanic:  
> "Gedda
> outta
> here, its closed off". I wave Massimos business card and say  
> "Massimo said
> its
> ok". Mechanic: "Donnta you toucha anything but ok, ok"  Ithen have 30
> minutes
> of looking over all the cars first hand and alone but for my buddy.  
> Really
> cool! All different colours and schemes. One of them said "Swap  
> Shop, Ft
> Lauderdale" on it and "Shelton" so I assume they flew it over.  
> FXX's have
> never done a
> demo track day in the UK before and tomorrow they will be racing  
> around
> Silverstone on a track day display.
>
> Really cool to see up close and the best thing as always about FOC  
> events
> here in the UK is you can pretty much go anywhere, see everything  
> and nobody
> says
> you aren't allowed in certain areas. You just go and do it. Took 800
> pictures. Tomorrow I will take part in the record attempt and will  
> watch the
> racing
> all day, same on Sunday. I know fellow lister Francis Newman is  
> working the
> event with the FOC, if anyone else in the UK is in the area it  
> looks to be a
> great
> weekend.
>
> Just had to share....
>
> Britt
>
> BR in the UK
> 1986 328GTS (LHD 89,940km) Died August 19, 2006 Shrewsbury UK
> 1980 400i (RHD 72,000 miles)
> Searching for the right 512TR
> 2003 BMW 530d
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