I preface the following by saying if you love cars, especially Italy’s finest, and are presented the opportunity to visit Modena, Maranello and Sant ‘Agata for a short two day tour of the Maserati, Ferrari, and Lamborghini factories…GO!!
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January 17, 2005 - I was driving on Rte. 206 N between Bedminster and Chester, NJ. It was freezing. The temperature range for this particular Martin Luther King holiday saw a low of 17 and a high of 24 degrees. Conventional wisdom would have prevented me from driving my very heavily modified 1979 Porsche type 930 (911 Turbo) out of its normally garaged location, but I had taken the car out the previous day and gotten caught nearby at a friends house just as snow flurries started to fall. I decided to take my chances, stay overnight night and drive back home the following day when the sun was out.
I was presented with the opportunity to attend an event at the Ferrari Showroom on Park Avenue last Tuesday night. The event was hosted by Wide World of Cars, who invited 15 or so of their clients…which coincidentally matched their ‘08 allocation for the car. Those clients were each entitled to bring a guest - which was the only reason I was there. After an hour of rubbing elbows with some muckety-mucks and indulging in some Ferrari related conversations which included a chat with a an elderly overweight man telling me that he thought the ride of his new 599 felt twitchy, and seemed far more excited about how easy it was to hook up his ipod and bluetooth gizmos, and another eccentric Swedish stock broker discussing the array of flamboyant color combinations he was pondering for his Scuderia.
But who am I to judge. Maybe they’d look cool in Sweden.
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