Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Article About Fake Ferraris

[JAshburne (JAshburne]

Kevin Hine, one of the guys who makes the Beck Spyders, sat at my  table 
during the Chowder Lunch at Tavern on the Green a few weeks  ago to announce 
the 
2008 Great Race from New York to Paris to commemorate  the 100th anniversary of 
the original Great Race that was won by the Thomas  Flyer.
 
We had a brief but very interesting discussion about the Beck Spyders,  they 
are very cool, authentic sports cars and are in no way like the  abomination 
that is a Fiero based "Ferrari" fakey-doo.  I would own one no  problem and 
would be very proud about it.
 
John
 
PS  The Great Race event on February 12 was a lot of fun.   The great 
grandson of George Schuster, the driver of the Thomas Flyer, gave a  great 
slide show 
and realistic recounting of the original Great Race, which  started on 
February 12, 1908.  While the recreation race won't start until  May of this 
year, 
the interesting thing is that a beautiful snowstorm started  during the lunch, 
just like during the start of the race 100 years ago to the  day.
 
 
In a message dated 2/29/2008 6:12:25 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
red5hilser [at] aol.com writes:

I'll  probably be crucified for this, but I think that I wouldn't mind owning 
 and driving the Beck Spyder Sure it's a knock-off, and a potential death 
trap,  especially with a hopped-up Super 90 engine in it, we all know that, but 
"Look  out, James Dean, here I come." <g> So ,,, Who's building the bondfire  
for me?

Yer Ferrari pal, Bubba








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