Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Ferrari vis Rolls Royce

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As the old quote from Hogan's Heroes goes: "Verrrry Interesting.
 
For whatever reason, I thought Matt and I were the only masochists who  would 
try to maintain both a Ferrari and one or more Rolls Royce  automobiles.
 
Actually, though current construction of a new garage will cure this, it is  
the MB 450SL that moves interchangeably with the Ferrari 348 as they stack up 
to  utilize what would normally be a single spot in my present garage. The 
house,  being on a farm, has an 800' driveway so i don't quite have Matt's 
problem of  curiousity seekers wandering up to wonder what I am doing playing 
car  
jockey.
 
As for maintaining multiple Rolls Royce and a Ferrari automobile, the  
expression of "glutton for punishment" is the penultimate understatement. We  
should 
be named under the defining characteristics of "Masochism" in the  DSM-IV(TR).
 
I'm still waiting for a long cross-country trip in the 348. This summer I  
drove the Silver Cloud III from KY to TX and back in ten days, with vacation 
and 
 car meet stops, as well as a National Historic Site, along the way. This car 
 simply epitomizes the old school British "club" atmosphere as well as the 
almost  colonial atmosphere where one thinks they should be sitting on the 
veranda  drinking gin and tonic in the sunset. I hope to make many more such 
long  
trips in this car, it is, in some ways, what many folks tell me about a cruise 
 with the travel being part of the vacation. And, of course there is room for 
 Blackhawk in the back seat. Actually he looks like the aristocrat being  
chauffered around in his motorcar with a footman to tend to his shore  needs.
 
I haven't had the luck to be able to take the Ferrari on an extended trip  
yet. And, with taking Blackhawk with us everywhere, and looking into the  
"cavernous" trunk, I know that Audrey wouldn't be pleased with the wardrobe  
selection that would fit within it. On the other hand, I look at the 348 as  
being 
visceral, almost a "scrotum on four wheels". It will be a drive somewhere  for 
an overnight stay, or more likely, a vacation where the Ferrari is towed  
behind the motor home and then taken out for drives along the interesting  
backroads along the way.
 
I guess the ideal vacation would be to tow a much larger enclosed trailer  
that would hold both cars. But then again I'd probably be caught stopped in a  
highway rest area unloading the Rolls Royce to get the Ferrari out of the  
trailer by a befuddled highway patrol trooper <vbg>
 
Dr. Steve
 
Dr.  Stephen B. Spies, CES, CFI
Director, Forensic Sciences  Laboratory
Explosives Engineering Technologies

1964 Rolls Royce Silver  Cloud III.....1975 Pontiac Grandville 
1980 MB 450  SL............................1982 Rolls Royce Corniche DHC
1988 Rolls Royce  Silver Spur..........1994 F-350 PowerStroke Diesel 
1995 Ferrari 348  Spyder.................1996 Ford Bronco 
2000 Lincoln Town  Car....................2004 Ford Excursion 
+ a 1985 MB 280GE Galedenwagen  for Explorations and
Audrey's 2 MB's [1980 450SL & 1987 420SEL] to care  for...

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