Ferrari Mailing List: Re: This is not a joke. Compare to contemporary cars, how did the 275 GTB Handle.

[Adam Green (FlatCrank]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Fellippe Galletta <fellippe.galletta [at] gmail.com> wrote:

Awesome write up Scottie!!

This is why I still subscribe to the list, and emails like this make up for the annoying stuff. Doug, you're lucky to have gotten this level of response!

Hear, hear.  I have a high tolerance for "signal to noise ratio" and I greatly appreciate those posts that have me pause and stare out the window and daydream about driving great cars.

 

As for the 275 or any old car, I'd imagine they would be a blast to drive on a winding country road so long as you didn't have the urge to drive it like you're at the Ring. Just exercising that V12 would be worth the price of admission.

And again, I completely agree.  Some of the most fantastic, hypnotic, life-changing experiences of driving I've had, have come from behind the wheel of cars that, today, would have a hard time keeping up with a well-driven SUV -- some of the most extraordinary cars are at their best when driven at speeds barely warranting a speeding ticket.

 

FG

ps - The F40's brakes may be old but the lack of assist and ABS must give it better feel than the 458 I would hope...

 

As for the F40, the genius of the brakes was to give the car so little mass to arrest.

I've never owned the F40 -- I vow to not go to my grave without righting that wrong -- but I've put the F40 brakes, courtesy Mr Brembo, on 700hp+ Porsche 911's at 2800lbs+ which, compared to the F40 at around 2000 or 2200lbs, the results border on defying the laws of physics when driven on the track with aero and slicks, the stopping force at 100mph or 160mph challenged the driver's consciousness, not the car. : )