Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Crushed Cars

[LarryT (l02turner]

Thanks for the details!  (to you and others) 

You wrote <<didn't have the rather shoddy construction or feel of Enzo's 
machines. >>

Ha!! LOL!  I saw him sitting in that repro at Goodwood - Hill said it looked 
very close to the original but the real Ferrari's didn't have such an excelent 
gearshift mechanism!

I know C Chapman gets all the credit for going super light and flimsy but it's 
all relative and I'm sure all race cars suffer from that line of thinking.   
Enzo would probably have been happy to coin the phrase, "the perfect race car 
is built to last until it crosses the finish line then it dies."  (I doubt 
that's a proper quote - maybe someone knows the exact wording)

Thx agn - 
Larry T (66 MGB, 74 911, 78 240D, 91 300D)
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: red5hilser [at] aol.com 
  To: l02turner [at] comcast.net 
  Cc: ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com 
  Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 12:59 PM
  Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Crushed Cars


  Hey Larry: The Chevrolet Division of GM did the same thing to all the 
Corvette race cars that they had loaned to Roger Penske for the season back in 
'the days.' Only thing was, that the GM employee in charge of the crushing, 
being the car-nut that he was, misplaced one. It's still out there somewhere. I 
read about it in R&T years ago. I think they were raced in the old Trans-Am 
series.

  And as far as the long-gone 1961 156 shark noses, Phil Hill drove an exact 
replica (except for the nose badge) that Chris Rhea had built for his 
documentary film in Wolfgang von Tripps. After about 20 minutes of track time, 
Phil came in and said that it was very apparent that it was nothing like the 
original factory 156. Unlike the Team cars, this one was well built and didn't 
have the rather shoddy construction or feel of Enzo's machines. 

  IMHO, the only reason that Hill won the WDC was that the V-6 Ferrari engine 
had a 40-50 horsepower advantage over the Brits. Not withstanding that his only 
rival, Tripps was killed in the last, and deciding race held at Monza
  On real drivers courses, the 156 didn't do too well, with Stirling Moss 
winning at Monte Carlo, and I think, the old Nurburgring. Somebody out there 
will have to check for me on the latter.

  Yer pal, Ferrari Bubba


  -----Original Message-----
  From: LarryT 
  Subject: [Ferrari] Crushed Cars


Howdy -

    I assume everyone knows that Enzo had some of his race cars (like the 
shark nosed F1 cars that took Phil Hill to become World Champion) crushed 
after they became obsolete.  Just heard the 1st 2 prototypes of the XKE were 
also crushed.

    I'm wondering why they crushed them?  Protecting secrets? eccentric? 
some other reason?

Larry T (66 MGB, 74 911, 78 240D, 91 300D)
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