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From: Douglas Anderson (dnt dock.net)
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| Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 09:18:44 -0800 (PST) | |
Cool story Rick. I love old racing stories. My acquaintance, Freeman Thomas, father of the Audi TT, VW ‘concept’ bug, and numerous Chrysler and Ford products mentioned to me after we got our 308GTS – “I do like those – nice lines . . . but I REALLY like the 246 Dino.” Why? Don’t know – just do. Me - Yeah, but it sorta like the 914 Porsche as compared to the 911. Underpowered, sit on ground . . etc. FT - Yeah, but they really do hold their stance. He eventually got one. And the prices went nutz. That’s when they were going for . . . well, I don’t recall but it wasn’t as astronomical as now. Guess Freeman’s educated eye saw stuff I wasn’t able to. Of course discussing car designs with Freeman I felt that I had the eye of a trained chimpanzee. Interesting fellow he is. From: Ferrari <ferrari-bounces+dnt=dock.net [at] ferrarilist.com> On Behalf Of Rick Moseley Clyde, it depends on the marque... Here, this is an odd group amongst the Ferrari world. Work on our own cars, like the old stuff, own a lot of the mid years, dig the Dinos and see past the lipstick on the new cars for the nightmares they can be. In the Pantera world, most are like this list. Those who aren't don't stick around long. They think they are getting into the exotic world cheap and then learn they are the red headed stepchildren at "the gatherings" and have to work on their cars "cuz no one else will". When we were actively racing the historics, I always stayed with the Pantera crowd at Los Laureles Lodge when we did Montery weekend. Quaint place, converted horse stables. The Bentley Racer crowd used their accommodations up on the hill above. People always working on their cars, drinking beer and hard stuff, noshing on handfuls of bagged chips. A few of us "both" owners that had Ferraris stayed there. One was a SoCal dentist that always brought two gorgeous yellow 246 Dinos he showed at CI, Laurie Ferrari, and Al Chelini with his Red 355 (did you know Al, AA pilot, medically grounded, SIM instructor). Finny and I would hang the first night with the Pantera crowd then go over to the Barnyard the second night with the Ferrari crowd... While one crowd sat around in jeans, ate hamburgers, swilled booze, and worked on their cars... the other had wine with finger foods, stood to keep from wrinkling their slacks or dresses and tried to out-checkbook everyone with stories of how much they paid to have their car serviced. Like it was some badge of honor to have the highest priced engine out belt change. About year 4 of having both, Al Chelini came to me at the "no-host-free-bar-clubhouse" and needed help with the programmer for the cut out/bypass on his fancy new Italian exhaust. It was a joke control box with instructions in Englitalian (FYI, worse than Chenglish). But we got it done. That night Finny wanted to stay with the Pantera wives and I went with Al to the Barnyard... the exhaust worked wonderfully, oh what a sound. A dweeb with no socks/loafers, seafoam green sweater around his shoulders and glass of "whine" I couldn't pronounce asked Al about his exhaust... he had the same exhaust put on his (then) new 360 but it wasn't working right. Al suggested he have me (holding a beer) look at it.... OH NO!!, he needed a professional he could PAY to adjust HIS car. I raised and eyebrow and snickered. He impudently walked away. Next day at the track, I'm working on the 66 Shelby T/A car (I remember the drapes were down so it was probably something on the car that was not for prying eyes to see) and Chris MacAllister comes to our pit and I hear him ask "Where's Blondie??". Carl says "he's in the tent, but you can go in". I'm under the car and he kicks my feet and says "Blondie, I have someone here you need to meet". Be right out. "Tom has an exhaust programmer problem and he needs someone like you who REALLY knows this electronic shit to fix it for him." I slide out from under the car and look up... it's the sweater dweeb from the previous night still in with the same sweater around his neck. "Sorry Chris, he needs a PROOFESSSSIONNNNAAALLL". The guy turns beet red and storms out of the tent. Chris asks "Do you know who that is?"... Nope! Still don't to this day. On Friday, March 5, 2021, 5:46:43 AM PST, Clarence Romero Jr. <clyderomerof4 [at] gmail.com> wrote: Great story But those individuals are far and few between. Clyde Romero If you have no enemies You have no character ! Scars are tattoos with better stories!
In response to Scottie's remarks below, I'll offer the following short stories. Back in 1996 or '97, I was sitting in a Chick-Fil-A in Fredericksburg VA, was wearing my FoW race team jacket. A woman approached me and excitedly asked if I owned a Ferrari. I told her no, I just worked on the race team. She said her brother had one and it was such a cool car. I asked what model he had, and she said "Well, he had a Mondial, but just got a new one. I don't know that that one's called...." So I asked his name and if he lived here and she said yes, he lives right in town. That brother was our own Matt Boyd, and we've been friends ever since. I actually didn't get to meet him until a few months later when he showed up in his 308 at an FoW event. When he introduced himself, I said "Hey, I met your sister!" "Oh, that was you??" "Yep!" When I bought the ex-Joe Martz/ex-Steve Cook 308, Matt and I drove our cars over to his sister's house where there was a kids birthday party going on, and we took the kids for rides. I think that topped their pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey game.... hahahaha!! WRT Scottie's comments about the "top collectors" - the guy who owned FoW (and the race team) when I was involved, may not have been in the same echelon as those who Scottie mentioned, but still, he had an F40 and a 250SWB (both of which were well driven - Clyde), so he was not hurting. But with a regular wardrobe of jeans, polo shirt, and docksiders, the average person on the street would never have guessed. Very down to earth and nice guy. Later, Clyde wrote: "If you have to worry about maintenance, fuel mileage, insurance you've bought the wrong car!" When I first bought my Spitfire (RIP), I decided to mod it a bit for better performance (even by cheap car standards, it was quite anemic). As was thinking about swapping out the horrible Stromberg carb for a Weber, and the cast iron exhaust manifold for a header, I commented to a friend that I was a bit concerned about what the mpg might be. He replied - "If you're only worried about gas milage, buy a Yugo you yellow-bellied communist!!" Hahahahha!! gp From: scott saidel <Scott_Saidel [at] Hotmail.com> _________________________________________________________________
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