Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Newcomer

[Luke Graves (buyer1]

Yes, but can they fly Fighters? 

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From: Ferrari [mailto:ferrari-bounces+buyer1=airmail.net [at] ferrarilist.com] 
On
Behalf Of clyde romero
Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2019 9:05 AM
To: Col Luke Graves
Cc: 'The FerrariList'
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Newcomer

Cody is a great guy
A lot of fun 2 years ago they came with us to the montreal GP His wife Ann
is a hoot Love her to death We have another guy we hang with Judge Melcher
But he is not on the list but fun non the less


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From: Ferrari <ferrari-bounces+clyderomerof4=gmail.com [at] ferrarilist.com> On
Behalf Of Cody Laird via Ferrari
Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2019 9:11 AM
To: Clyde <Clyderomerof4 [at] gmail.com>
Cc: ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Newcomer

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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>>>>> 
>>>>> 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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