Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Newcomer

[Lashdeep Singh (lashdeep]

Cody, welcome to the List. It is filled with some very colorful and fun people.

Your story is very interesting...thanks for sharing.

The Mondial T is the first Ferrari I ever drove. What a fun car...

Any pics of it and the 348?

I am hoping to “un-graduate” this year by purchasing a kart and a dirt bike.

If you ever make it to Montreal for the F1 race, let us know.

Lashdeep



> On Aug 8, 2019, at 09:11, Cody Laird via Ferrari <ferrari [at] 
> ferrarilist.com> wrote:
> 
> John,
> 
> Be careful what you ask for ;) 
> 
> Well, let’s see. I’m 57, with wife and 4 kids, all over the age of 20. Only 
> one at home for the foreseeable future. 
> 
> I’ve always been fascinated with mechanical things since a child, building 
> models, r/c planes, tanks, cars, and generally waging war with the results in 
> my backyard.  Started with go-karts, dirt bikes and graduated to a ’74 Alfa 
> GTV 2000 in high school. Unfortunately someone decided, after I pulling off 
> to the emergency lane of the highway to fix a flat, to see if the could pass 
> someone in the emergency lane. We were in the car as he tried to see how my 
> car would hold up to being hit from behind at 60+ miles an hour with large 
> American ‘70s land yacht. Needless to say “Ford Pinto” comes to mind as 
> myself and my two passengers are lucky to be here and not crispy bacon. 
> 
> Fast forward to a couple of years ago after I, on a whim with tacit 
> “approval” from the wife (“sure honey, whatever you want to do”), bid and 
> “won” on Bring A Trailer what is now my Mondial t coupe. After which I and 
> another good friend, with another Ferrari, attended the Italian Car Day in 
> Norcross GA, in metro Atlanta. There I parked next to a guy in a 512 TR who’s 
> first words to me were “I hope you have good tool kit for that Mondial”. And 
> there started a great friendship with Clyde. Who of course mentioned this 
> ancient email list system. Ironically I’d used another variant back in 
> college in the early 80s majoring in information systems. 
> 
> Last year while in Paris with my wife and staying in a hotel that Clyde 
> ironically knows well for it’s location, on another whim, I found online, 
> located in Germany, a ’90 348TB with 24k kilometers, blue sera w/ crema 
> interior in excellent shape. With the help of a very good friend who lives in 
> the Netherlands, I bought it and had it shipped to the states. Luckily for me 
> the wife approves of the 348.
> 
> Like Clyde, I drive my cars regularly and love every minute of it. For 
> example, my daily driver has over 224k miles (’01 E38 Dinan 7 w/ supercharger 
> - 740iL which I bought new in 2000) and my Mondial has 103k+ miles on it, my 
> ’97 M3, my track car, has 150K+ miles, of which 20k+ is all track miles. I 
> hope to do the same with my 348. 
> 
> Now you have enough information to raid my bank account, take my house and 
> cars and you’re welcome to the the kids if you're crazy enough to want them, 
> LOL.
> 
> I hope to meet some of the other listers in person one day, but as I know 
> from the banter here, you are scattered far and wide around the globe. We’ll 
> just see if it happens. 
> 
> Best and happy driving! 
> 
> Cody
> 
>> On Aug 7, 2019, at 10:25 PM, Jashburne <jashburne [at] aol.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Cody:  
>> 
>> Wow, an actual new member to this old fashioned email list!
>> 
>> Tell us a bit about yourself if you like. 
>> 
>> Welcome!
>> 
>> John
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Aug 7, 2019, at 7:56 PM, Cody Laird via Ferrari <ferrari [at] 
>>> ferrarilist.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Odd as I’ve spent a lot of time with someone who claims to be named Clyde. 
>>> Whoever he is, he’s an enjoyable chap. 
>>> 
>>> Sent from my PDP-8
>>> 404-202-8387
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Aug 7, 2019, at 7:29 PM, scott saidel <Scott_Saidel [at] hotmail.com> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Welcome Cody.
>>>> 
>>>> There is no cLyDe.
>>>> 
>>>> Scottie
>>>> 
>>>>> On Aug 7, 2019, at 6:50 PM, Cody Laird via Ferrari <ferrari [at] 
>>>>> ferrarilist.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> This is the main reason I will only lease new vehicles or buy older 
>>>>> vehicles that do not require proprietary stuff or can be retrofitted with 
>>>>> off the shelf and easily available replacements. Now with that said I do 
>>>>> own a couple of Ferrari’s among other cars that may fall into that 
>>>>> category in a few years; an ‘89 Mondial t coupe and ’90 348tb. Queue the 
>>>>> Clyde’isms, ha ha. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I personally hope that one day the car manufactures are required to 
>>>>> provide free or for a reasonable fee, whatever that may be is subjective, 
>>>>> to owners of the vehicles the proprietary software needed to replicate 
>>>>> and/or diagnose the systems after the components are no longer 
>>>>> manufactured. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> In case no one noticed this is my first reply to the list after 
>>>>> “listening” for over a year to the great commentary and banter. Thank you 
>>>>> Clyde for telling me about it. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Cody Laird
>>>>> Atlanta
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Message: 2
>>>>>> Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2019 19:40:44 +0000
>>>>>> From: Peter Rychel <dino308gt4 [at] hotmail.com>
>>>>>> To: Doug & Terri <dnt [at] dock.net>
>>>>>> Cc: 'The FerrariList' <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Realistic prices are retuning
>>>>>> Message-ID:
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>>>>>> MWHPR02MB3277.namprd02.prod.outlook.com>
>>>>>> 
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>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Of course.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> But ? and that?s a big BUT ? what makes it harder is that Ferrari has 
>>>>>> proprietary codes for all of the body controls, plus other drivetrain 
>>>>>> stuff that?s not covered in the open, emissions-accessible OBD area.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> While there are still working ECUs out there, they?d have to be 
>>>>>> ?cracked? open and reverse-engineered.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It?s still a small market and somebody will have to pay for all of that.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> There?s only one consumer-grade full scanner available (Leonardo) and 
>>>>>> it?s five figures. Might as well spring a couple more grand and get the 
>>>>>> genuine Ferrari scanner... If you can find one.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hopefully by then, the aftermarket crowd will just come up a 
>>>>>> plug-and-play system that can drive all of that and one can ditch all of 
>>>>>> the Marelli stuff altogether. That?s the route I?d take...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Peter
>>>>>> 
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