Ferrari Mailing List: Re: HS Coach Lends His Car...[]errari Digest, Vol 33, Issue 5

Steve,

Too late for me. I started worshiping them at age 11 when Enzo Ferrari  

wrote me back. I was also born on the day Dino Ferrari died.........  

Technically I should have never been able to even own a Ferrari, it  

was the culmination of a 30 year dream. I used to go to car shows and  

get almost physically ill because I lusted after one so bad. I  

remember the first one I ever saw in front of a fancy Italian eatery  

in San Francisco. I remember getting down on my  knees in front of the  

grill and nose badge and staring at the front of the car, the grill,  

the headlight covers, the hood. I think it was 330 or 400 Superfast. I  

was so overwhelmed by the beauty of this thing that I have never  

recovered. To me it is more like a religion.

I can understand someone not understanding my passion, but to me it is  

very clear. Of course the Ferrari is not as important as a loved one,  

however I have spent so many hours with its little parts in my hands.  

To me it is art, made by the same breed of craftsmen that created the  

Pieta, the Colosseum, The Pantheon, Tivoli Gardens, Caligula's  

Pleasure Barge (just kidding on that last one) . Every time I have  

taken it apart it works when I put it back together (thanks Steve, Ric  

and all the rest of you that have helped me). It always starts and it  

has never let me down, something I cant say for many of my human  

companions!  :-) I guess my quote of Signor Ferrari below sums it up  

for me. I guess maybe if I had lots of money or many Ferrari's I might  

feel different but I will imagine that most of you who have met me  

would guess I would still have this same overwhelming passion that  

cannot be explained by mere words.

A lady that reads past lives whom i had never met once told me I was a  

roman solder on Hadrian's wall. What is weird is that I had started  

collecting an entire historically Roman solders outfit over the last  

15 years. I will wear it this weekend at the local Renaissance  

Faire...... it always pisses of the Scots!!

Robert W. Garven Jr.
rgarven [at] gmail.com

 "The Ferrari is a dream - people dream of owning this special  

vehicle and for most people it will remain a dream apart from for  

those lucky few". Enzo Ferrari

On Apr 3, 2009, at 4:08 PM, BRIGANDBAR [at] aol.com wrote:

I guess I must be out of touch, part of the MTV generation or  

something  like

that.

While I wouldn't loan my Ferrari(s) to students had I been a teacher  

in his

position, my 25 year old son drives the Ferrari when he was in  

college and

came  home on his spring or fall break and it doesn't phase me a  

bit. I remember

what  I would have been like if we had a Ferrari in the family when  

I was his

age and  cannot imagine my father telling me not to drive it. While  

he is what

we used to  call a "Goat Roper" and now teaches agriculture in a  

high school

in TX, and if I  asked him which vehicle he would like to take home  

with him

the F-350 4x4 might  edge out the Ferrari at any given time, what  

difference

does it matter.

Gentlemen, these are automobiles. Fine automobiles, I'll give you  

that, but

still just an automobile. They can be replaced with an "in kind"  

substitute if

necessary, and there are competent shops that can make any necessary

repairs. I  would be concerned about injury but then again, WWDHD  

[what would Dad

have done]  at that age, do exactly as I suspect he does, drive it  

like you stole

it, just  obey the law and don't get any tickets. In fact, that is  

the only

guidance I  give him whether it is a Ferrari, an ATV or a PWC. In  

the end he is

as  responsible as I have asked and educated him to be so I am  

responsible

for his  actions in some secondary way should some adverse event  

occur. And he

is 25  years old, and while I don't think that there is an exclusion  

on my

insurance  policy I can't imagine it being anything less than 21  

years old and in

any event  even Hertz used to rent their GT500's to people his  

current age.

Drive the car, don't worship it.

Dr. Steve

In a message dated 4/3/2009 5:16:29 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
ferrari-request [at] ferrarilist.com writes:

http://www.wreckedexotics.com/articles/021.shtml

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Re: HS Coach Lends His Car...[]errari Digest, Vol 33, Issue 5	<– Date –> <– Thread –>
From: Robert W. Garven Jr. (rgarvengmail.com)
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 20:20:39 -0700 (PDT)