Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Collection of cars snapped up by John Collins

[Peter Rychel (dino308gt4]

It's much the same with any major city you can think of. I used to drive quite a bit into Vancouver and although with an improved highway (with the major bridge to cross being tolled now $3 each way, is empty! The other "free" bridges are plugged solid with traffic avoiding paying the toll!), city driving has gotten worse with densification, bicycle lanes and stupider drivers! Not fun anymore!

I live outside in the suburbs and drive out on some of the valley roads which is great - for now. It's better suited for an older car like mine that isn't outright fast, but is perfect for the nice tight sweeping back country roads.

After having the GT4 for 15 years, I'd say the novelty has worn off a bit. When I first got it, you couldn't get me out of it, nowadays, I'm putting around 1200mi/year - strictly a weekend toy when the weather is good. I can't imagine how little mileage I'd put on each car if I had those 27. Although if I had the bucks to afford a collection like that, I wouldn't have to "waste" time going to a job everyday, so would have the time I guess...

;)

Peter

> Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 20:12:37 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Collection of cars snapped up by John Collins
> CC: ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com
> From: ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com
> To: dino308gt4 [at] hotmail.com
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> For what's it's worth, driving here in the UK is not really fun or enjoyable anymore and most of these cars would be horrible to use on regular UK roads. Driving here for the most part is not open empty roads; traffic is horrendous, the weather terrible 6 months of the year and salt and grit really takes its toll. Loads of people here know you can't make money with money in the bank so why not buy cars where at least you can look at them?
>
> I drive 30k miles a year with work and although I used a 328gts as my only car here back 15 years ago I would never do that know. My 140 mile commute each day is in a 5 series as it takes 4-5 hours to complete.
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> When you do find the excellent empty roads in Wales or Scotland there are speed cameras everywhere or you are stuck behind farm tractors/ caravans/ or slow land rovers and just can't get going.
>
> I'm not defending everyone who owns cars and never drives them but if I had money sitting around I would happily rather have some cars than money in the bank. I may not get to drive them very much or even want to except for a jaunt to Italy in the summer but I can certainly see why you could have cars here in the UK with very low miles. It's just not the same environment like when I grew up in Florida and there were endless empty roads and sunny days to drive in....
>
> This is not the same environment for driving as the usa.
>
> Just some things to think about
>
> BR in the UK
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On 15 Mar 2015, at 14:32, John Ashburne via Ferrari <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com> wrote:
> >
> > Reminds me of the Jim Glickenhaus philosophy: "Not driving your Ferrari is like not making love to your supermodel girlfriend so that her next boyfriend can enjoy her more" or words to that effect.
> >
> > Jay Leno says "I drive my cars until they are 66 point cars, restore them to 100 point cars and then drive them some more"
> >
> > My sentiments exactly. Let's hope the next owners do drive them, bring them to cars and coffee events and get the full enjoyment these cars were meant to deliver.
> >
> > Just my 2 cents.
> >
> > John
> >
> > Sent from my ATT Bell Rotary Dial Phone
> >
> >> On Mar 15, 2015, at 10:03 AM, Erik Nielsen <judge4re [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Write them a check and start driving one then, all they did was save them for the next owner...
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPad
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