Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Just A Car Geek (SFC!)

[Red5hilser (Red5hilser]

Hello my friend: Thanks for the interesting site that I discovered  thru  the 
Ferrari List  I own a 1978 Euro GT4.
Like you, I'm a car nut too. 
 
My 1st foreign car was a '53 Jaguar XK-120MC that I bought in 1957 for  
$1,995. That was followed by a plethera of others, like a AH 100S, a few VW  
campers (one with a Porsche 1600S engine, that could do wheelies), Porsche  
356Bs, 
two Lancia Scorpions (both totaled), a Porsche 914,  BMW 325si, and  finally 
the Ferrari Dino GT4, which, BTW, has been a daily driver since 1999.  And 
somebody once told me that Ferraris are a nightmare to keep on the road. He  
never 
saw my BMW bills!
 
When are you going to zero in on the shoddy East Block cars? I'd kill for a  
Trabant, or even a Wartburg, 
 
Keep 'em coming, yer pal, Ferrari Bubba
 
 
In a message dated 1/24/2009 6:39:46 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
contact [at] justacargeek.com writes:

     
_Just A Car Geek_ (http://justacargeek.blogspot.com/)  
_Guts  or Nuts?_ 
(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/rPOH/~3/521719074/guts-or-nuts.html)   
Posted:  23 Jan 2009 08:13 AM CST 
 
 
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zp5hU5oekAI/SXnEH5vlcUI/AAAAAAAAANY/S0oDBmtOo9w/s1600-h/alfa+engine.jpg)
 Those who've known me for awhile know that of all the 
cars  I've owned my 1987 Alfa Romeo Milano (known as the Alfa Romeo 75 to  
most of the world) was one of my favorites, if not my very favorite. It  was 
the 
perfect combination of everything that makes a car "right" to  me. That's not 
what this post is going to be about, though.

I'm  sure by now you seen the news about Fiat (Alfa's parent  company) taking 
a 35% stake in Chrysler. That, of course, got me thinking  that maybe, just 
maybe, they'll start selling semi-affordable (i.e. in  the BMW 3 Series / Audi 
A4 price range) Alfas in this country again. (You can get a  new Alfa in  this 
country now, the spectacular _8C_ 
(http://www.roadandtrack.com/article.asp?section_id=3&article_id=6176) ,  but 
at around a quarter-of-a-million-dollars, 
it's a bit out of my price  range - by about a quarter-of-a-million-dollars.) 
But that's not what  this post is going to be about either.

While prowling the internet last  night, looking for info on some of Alfas 
recent models, I stumbled on this  video. This is of a man with an Alfa 75 
(just 
like the one I owned) doing a  "burnout". Burnouts (the tire kind and the 
people kind) have  never impressed me. It just seems like a really good way of 
chewing up  some expensive tires for no real purpose. But what amazed me about 
this  video is just how close to a cement wall this guy is doing his burnout. 
One  small slip of the foot and it's zero-to-wall in .05 seconds. There's a  
thin line between confidence and craziness. I'm not sure which side this  guy 
is 
on.

By the way, check out the exhaust sound of this car.  Mine sounded similar (I 
had an Ansa exhaust on mine) and is one the many  reasons I loved my Alfa 
Milano (75) so  much.



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