Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Mille Miglia on HDTHR

[Dennis Liu (bigheaddennis]

Chuckles, thanks for copying me on this.

Re the Mille Miglia special, it was pretty interesting watching.  I'm
friends with a few folks who've run it, including a couple who appear in the
show, and to a man, they all swear it's the adventure of a lifetime.  It
surely is.  One friend demi-seriously asked me if I'd be interested in
navigating for him, but I pointed out, with infinite sadness, that I'm about
7" too tall and a good 70 lbs too heavy to fit as a passenger in his 166MM.

Re Chasing Classic Cars:  it's certainly pretty interesting TV.  The
producer of the show is on Fchat, and you can read more about the series
there.  Wayne indeed is a friend of mine, and he's worked on one of my
Ferraris.  As I've always said about Wayne, he's a great guy, and does
fantastic work, but take whatever time estimate he gives you and multiply it
by 4.  Or 7 or 8.  that doesn't detract from the show, of course.  I also
happy to know a few of the other guys that have appeared in it.  There's a
lot that the show ISN'T telling you, but, hey, what reality show ever does?

Vty,

--Dennis


-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Perry [mailto:charles [at] carolina-sound.com] 
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 4:57 PM
To: LarryT; Dennis Liu
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: RE: [Ferrari] Mille Miglia on HDTHR

Interesting that we hadn't heard about this before. I think our own Big
Head is or was a customer of F40 Motorsports. Sounds like a neat show. I
need to get my dish re-pointed so I can get the rest of my HD content...

-- charles

 

-----Original Message-----
From: LarryT [mailto:l02turner [at] comcast.net] 
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 3:47 PM
To: Charles Perry
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: [Ferrari] Mille Miglia on HDTHR

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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