Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Mille Miglia on HDTHR

[Paul Bennett (pbennett]

Sounds like you opted for Dish rather than DTV, make certain you sign 
up for Speed Channel.  It's standard with DTV but extra on DISH.  

Only 3 months to go


>Hi all -
>I upgraded to digital TV last year and this month bought a HD Plasma TV - 
>when browsing the in screen menu I was tanatlized by the HD channels 
>unavailable to me since I didn;t spring for the HD box - finally a channel 
>called HDTHR kept showing program titles I could resist no longer.  Got the 
>HD box and curently there are 2 very interesting programs - a 2 hour 
>documentary about the Mille Miglia and a regular (I think) called "Chasing 
>Classic Cars" about a guy who owns a place called F40 Motorsports in Ct - he 
>travels around the US buying and selling classic and sports cars.  Christmas 
>day brought a marathon of programs and I saw a couple I had missed.  One was 
>about a genuine bran find - they pulled a 37 Bugatti from a barn also 
>containing a Jag and RR - the Bug was last licensed in 1962 NY - the owner 
>said it had stayed in the barn ever since 62.
>
>It was taken to a big east coast auction and the F40 guy was bidding on 
>behalf of a customer of his.  It went to $750K before they dropped out.  The 
>car was a "Type 57 Atalante" if my memory is correct - they didn't even wipe 
>the dust off - sold it exactly as it was found.  The new owner intends to 
>keep it that way - only respraying the wheels and some of the fenders where 
>the paint was long gone - saying it'll never be restored as long as he owns 
>it. Bravo!  The way it should be IMHO.
>
>For Ferrari content - he also bought a 330 Coupe (not sure about the numbers 
>but it was late  60s) which was gorgeous - he took it apart - he seems to do 
>a lot of hands-on stuff according to the camera - and had it re-painted in 
>beautiful silver.  He also reunited a man with a Daytona Spyder he bought 
>new in 73 - then crashed heavily in it and the car was totalled. While in 
>the hospital the insurance co took possession and evidently auctioned it - 
>it was bought, properly repaired and showed up in Az where Mr F40 found it 
>and called his friend who had owned it - he bought it and it was taken back 
>to it's original color and the rest of the car restored - the owner also 
>owns a coupe in the same color so will have a pair - a coupe and a spyder to 
>display.
>
>Anyway - the MM is a special program also - one of the best I;ve seen - of 
>course there's not many to choose from.  They had comments from S Moss which 
>were very interesting - he's always a character. ;-)
>
>Anyway - hope everyone is having a great Holiday - Merry Christmas and have 
>a Happy New Year!
>
>Sincerely,
>Larry T  (74 911, 91 300D 2.5T)
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