Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Mille Miglia on HDTHR

[Dennis Liu (bigheaddennis]

Here's an article on the Ferrari 340 America barn find/eBay auction.  Really
classy position by the seller.

BTW, there's no "d" in Tom's last name - it's Tom Shaughnessy 

Vty,

--Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: LarryT [mailto:l02turner [at] comcast.net] 
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 2:11 PM
To: BigHeadDennis [at] gmail.com
Cc: 'The FerrariList'
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Mille Miglia on HDTHR

Dennis said << take whatever time estimate he gives you and multiply it
by 4.  Or 7 or 8. >>>

I think that's kind of an undercurrent of the show - on all the promos and 
as part of the shows themselves Mr Carini makes a point of the limited time 
between when he obtains a car to sell and when the auction begins - usually 
comments of "we only have 4 days until the auction," or, "there's only 7 
months until Monterey".

Yes, it appears Mr Carini is pretty well known in the exotic car auction 
world as he seems to get cars into places like Monterey and Peeble Beach 
without much drama.

And yes, you;re certainly right about him knowing he stuff - as well as 
knowing many of the characters of the exotic car world - including a visit 
to O'Shaudessey's farm showing some interesting stuff laying around - that 
segment told how O'Shaudessey's bought a car on eBay billed as a old kit car

(a Devlin?)  that had a early (like early 50s) Ferrari chassis (not 
mentioned in the ad) - which had run  at LeMans and other places.  He saw in

the photos of a steering box that made him believe the chassis was a early 
special one and spent around $27K to buy it.  But I assume he had a strong 
feeling it was the chassis he thought it was to spend that kind of money to 
get.  IIRC he thought the chassis might being as much as $1MM after resto - 
I guess that's how you make money in that business - with knowledge!

on that same progam Oshadessey picks up Carini at the airport in a 54 375MM 
(1 of 14)!  Wow! What a car!

 I was surprised to find this program and the MM documentary only shown on 
HDTHR - a station I've never heard of before now.  They*do* show a wide 
variety of HD programming -

Have a noce Sunday!

Sincerely,
Larry T  (74 911, 91 300D 2.5T)
www.youroil.net Oil Analysis Kits &
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Liu" <bigheaddennis [at] gmail.com>
To: "Larry Turner" <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
Cc: "'The FerrariList'" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 9:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Mille Miglia on HDTHR


> 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)
> www.youroil.net Oil Analysis Kits &
> Porsche Posters/Weber parts
> Test Results - http://members.rennlist.com/oil/
>
> http://www.scamfreetop10.com/1233.html
>
>
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