Ferrari Mailing List: Re: My Almost Perfect Day

[Richard Lindsay (rolindsay]

I saw the Ford GT when it was first shown at the US F1 GP with Stewart driving. 
 It was VERY disappointing because they left the stock exhaust on - and we had 
just been listening to F1 cars!  The M-B safety car sounded MUCH better.

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From: BRIGANDBAR [at] aol.com
To: "rolindsay" <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com>
Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: 10/27/2007 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] My Almost Perfect Day

Larry:
 
Not having driven a 360, I can't make a completely accurate comparison, but  
I have driven the Ford GT and my 348 Spyder.
 
First let me note that while the Ford was a new experience for me and  
driving the Ferrari was "routine" and that might have slightly affected my  
perceptions but I'll try not to let that happen.
 
The two cars I've driven (348 & Ford GT) seemed like they came from  
different worlds in many ways. My Ferrari is visceral, sort of like a scrotum 
on  4 
wheels while the Ford GT was quieter and more comfortable in many ways (but  
then again it was a brand new car at the time so that also contributes to this  
perception). The Ford was seriously quieter, but then again it was not a 
Spyder,  the seats fit my middle age crisis ass a bit better, and it seemed  
somewhat faster than the 348, but it being new, and the owner sitting right  
next to 
me and looking over my shoulder with some apprehension while I was in  control 
of his new car, for which he had taken a second mortgage on his house,  to 
acquire so it I never really had the chance to run it out.
 
To me, the Ford seemed a little like an Aston Martin, but without the  
ambience of the old English club that I find the most attractive trait of the  
Aston 
Martin while my Ferrari felt, as you all know, like a Ferrari. If I were  to 
re-mortgage to buy a car (something that, unless Altzheimer's prematurely  
strike will never happen) and I had my choice between the Aston Martin and the  
Ford GT I'd go with the Aston Martin, probably a 12 cyl. DHC, or one of the  
newer series Bentley's as a better second choice, but I did enjoy the Ford GT  
and in that fantasy world of being able to buy as many cars as I could ever 
want  I would include one in my stable. 
 
Also, Roger has had virtually no trouble, mechanically or otherwise, with  
his Ford GT in the 12k-14k mi. that he has driven it but it is a stock (if that 
 
word ever applies) car from Ford and that might be a contributing factor to 
his  trouble free ownership.
 
Dr. Steve  

1964 Rolls  Royce Silver Cloud III 1975 Pontiac GV Conv.
1980 MB 450SL 1982 RR  Corniche
1985 MB 280 GE G-Wagen 1988 Rolls Royce Silver Spur
1990 Cadillac  "Eagle" Hearse 1994 F-350 Powerstroke 4x4 
1995 Ferrari 348 Spyder 1996  Bronco
2000 Lincoln Town Car 2004 Excursion
+ Audrey's 2x  MB's


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

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