Ferrari Mailing List: Re: California

[Jeff Kennedy (jkennedy.design]

The real reason the various satellite automotive studios were all set up in So Cal starting in the 1980s was that So Cal was the trend leader.  At the time the consideration was that what was going on is So Cal now would become nationwide/worldwde in 5 or so years.  

The main design studio for VW remains in Germany.

On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 11:19 AM Douglas Anderson <dnt [at] dock.net> wrote:

Yep

It ain’t perfect but living here for more than 70 years – I’d have to agree Clyde.

So if one is looking for perfection – I recall what Tommy Lasorda (past Dodger mgr.) once said

“I’ll pay millions of dollars for a person who’ll guarantee me he’ll be right only 4 out of 10 times.”

WHaaaa?  In other words - Guarantee me you’ll hit .400 and I’ll pay millions for you.

Yep – there may be a lot of nonsense but concentrate on the “4 out of 10” and it is an interesting place.

Where else can you go skiing in the morning, drop by Palmdale and visit Blackbird park and see/touch an SR-71 and a YF 12-A then head to the coast and go surfing and finally watch a sunset?  Busy day, but it could be done.

The weather sucked the air craft industry out of Ohio and New Jersey pre-WWII.  And after?  The engineers stayed here.

An acquaintance, Freeman Thomas, co-father of the “new Beetle’ and the Audi TT, and I hung out on occasion.  His design office was in Simi Valley – 10 minutes north of us.  I asked him – why does VW and Audi have their design center HERE?  Shouldn’t you be in Germany?  Nope – we’re here ‘cause you can get ANYTHING, anytime you want.  Want a special Windshield?  Want a muffler chromed at 2 in the morning?  Can’t do that in Germany.

Yep – interesting place.

Doug

 

 

From: Clarence Romero Jr. <clyderomerof4 [at] gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2021 8:18 AM
To: Douglas Anderson <dnt [at] dock.net>
Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] California

 

Be nice

It has the 5 largest economy in the world !

Bigger than any country in the EU 

Be glad it’s one of our states

That phone you use came out of one the guys heads that lives in California 

Politics aside there is more to like in that state then not 

Clyde Romero

 

If you have no enemies

You have no character ! 

 

Scars are tattoos with better stories!

When you're out of F-4's you're out of fighters!

 

 

 

On Feb 12, 2021, at 11:09 AM, Douglas Anderson <dnt [at] dock.net> wrote:



Kalifornia?  Who lives in such a place?  The cereal state?  Land of nuts and flakes?

The Eagles wouldn’t write a No. 1 hit song about any other.

Ahem – we do.  Thousand Oaks.  45 miles NW of the Los Angeles impact zone.

Kalifornia is a state that you can drive all day long . . . and still be in Kalifornia.

Why the “K”?  Well Kalifornia came up with special laws like emissions and taxes imposed on the residents.

In many ways Kalifornia was responsible for emission laws.  It wasn’t that long ago there were “49 state” cars then Kalifornia only.

It was/is the tail that wags the dog . . . emission wise . . .car sale wise . . . world wide.

In retrospect – not a bad thing.  As youngster, I recall days that looked like London Fog – but it was emissions and take a deep breath and your chest would hurt.  Smoke + Fog = Smog.  The only time you could see Mt. Wilson looking north from Inglewood under the LAX flight path is the day it rained.  Then Mt. Wilson disappeared again.  Now?  You can see it anytime from the same vantage point.

Or you could look at this way – forcing science to come up cleaner emission made way for tricks that allow 900 hp out 4 liters , , , for a street machine.

Look on any older cars emission plate . . . something like “complies with all states AND California.”

So there’s the Teutonic spelling.  Rob lives another 30 miles or so up Hwy101.

So go to your grocery store, go to the cereal isle, look at all the flavors and types of nuts and flakes, and those are the areas you can choose to live.

We like it here – a lot of retired air line pilots do too.

So you son works in Santa Monica – but where does he live?

Onward

Doug

 

From: Ferrari <ferrari-bounces+dnt=dock.net [at] ferrarilist.com> On Behalf Of Anthony Bauco
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2021 6:51 AM
To: DOUG <dnt [at] dock.net>
Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Subject: [Ferrari] California

 

Having observed the sanity levels on this list I am somewhat hesitant to ask this question but here it goes.  Who here lives in CA?  I suspect there are several..

 

My son moved out there a little over a year ago.  I am going to give him three years to see if he is going to stay there.  If so, I will likely move out there to be closer to him.  So I am starting to research areas.  I don't mind downsizing and I already live a pretty simple life but, still, I need to be able to survive the cost of living at the tail end of my working years and through retirement.  My son works at SpaceX and lives in Santa Monica.  No way am I going to pay those prices.  So I am looking north and south of LA.  I hate extreme heat and my wife hates cold so the desert is out.

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