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

[ItsmeMrWright (ItsmeMrWright]

In 1974 my dad sold his '70 Elk SS 396 cowl induction grabber orange, rally  
striped, rally wheeled tire smoker and got a Luv truck when gas went to $.50 a 
 gallon.  I failed to get laid at the drive in from that day forward.
 
 
"All hail Obamacles!" they cry, "Master of Bullshit,  
Vicelord of the Chicagomon, Slayer of Hildusa, 
Vanquisher of Palina. You  are our new and shiny hope, 
a true god amongst mortals." 

 
In a message dated 1/24/2009 6:40:07 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
l02turner [at] comcast.net writes:

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


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-----  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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