Ferrari Mailing List: Re: "Moto Ferrari" envelope for my collection... bugger > all Ferrari car content!

[George (ygpz4re]

There is one of these "Ferrari" motorcycles registered in the "Classics On The Green" European car festival coming up on 14 September.

For anyone interested, the show is at the New Kent Winery in New Kent, VA - 14 Sept, 11a-4p.  Featured marque is Ferrari, so bring yours out!  Registration closes in the next week or so.  If you have an interesting or special Ferrari you'd like to show, please let me know - I can work it into the special display we're planning (which, per *current* plans, will include the "Ferrari" motorcycle).

Hope to see you there!

George P.

>
> Bought this online in Italy this morning....
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/59346333@N03/15016866946/
>
> About Moto Ferrari from a site listing Italian makes of motorcycle...
>
> "As the story goes, in 1953 it was rumored that Ferrari would unveil a
> motorcycle at the Motosalone di Milano
> <http://www.wheelsofitaly.com/wiki/index.php?title=Motosalone_di_Milano&action=""
> It was a 125cc single-cylinder two stroke with a two speed gearbox.
> Naturally what was on display was painted bright Italian racing red and
> sported a genuine Ferrari logo, probably for about the duration of the
> show. Just long enough to get some orders from the more gullible
> enthusiasts. Unfortunately what they were ordering wasn't a product of
> Enzo Ferrari
> <http://www.wheelsofitaly.com/wiki/index.php?title=Enzo_Ferrari>, but
> Fratelli Ferrari
> <http://www.wheelsofitaly.com/wiki/index.php?title=Fratelli_Ferrari&action=""
> instead. They were just two brothers who happened to share the popular
> Italian surname. Meanwhile the real Ferrari (Enzo) was not at all
> pleased. The bike itself lacked any remarkable performance and simply
> sported an engine that was more or less a direct copy of a Parilla
> <http://www.wheelsofitaly.com/wiki/index.php?title=Parilla> 125/250cc.
> Apparently one of the brothers had worked in the Parilla factory for a
> while."
>
> Regards
> Gavin
> Collector of odd things...