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

Hey Bubbba!!
What's shakin' ?

I assume you let the XK-120MC go somewhere along the way?  I felll in love 

with the XKC long ago after seeing it in R&T.

One of the more beautiful shapes IMHO of that era.  Along with the LanciaD50 

which was copy of a Ferrari IIRC

I bet it would surprise all of us to see a list of the cars owned by list 

member at one time or another.  And there will  always be tales of the one 

that got away -

Take care -

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

.

----- Original Message ----- 

From: <Red5hilser [at] aol.com>

To: "Larry Turner" <l02turner [at] comcast.net>

Cc: <Staxwax [at] aol.com>; <ItsmeMrWright [at] aol.com>; <Rexnbutchie [at] aol.com>; 

<billbillynmiki [at] adelphia.net>; "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>

Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Just A Car Geek (SFC!)

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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Re: Just A Car Geek (SFC!)	<– Date –> <– Thread –>
From: LarryT (l02turnercomcast.net)
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:40:02 -0800 (PST)