[s-cars] VLAC: Coffee & Cars

[pkrasusky at ups.com]

Taking a break from the ohso more impotant posts...

So Markymark Besso here invited me last week to join him Sat. for the
monthly Coffee & Cars gathering held here @ F40 Motorsports.  Sorry to
those localyocals I'd normally *insist* join me for such shenanigans but
I hadn't known if I were really going or not until late Fri. night.

It was a clear 40 degree morning so I was able to fire up the 930 for
the sunrise whirl down there.  Paulland to Rocky hill in oops 14
minutes, I met Brian off 91S in the GT3RS and we bombed the rest of the
way down fighterplane style - muwahahahahaha just ohsofun / JNR.  I
could stay behind that orange wonder _FOREVER_ and just bask in the
views and soundtrack, I didn't even bother for the pass, nope.

We got there to join Mark in his 90cq (MAC) and Bob D'Amato in the
Cosworth Escort.  An F355 Spider F1 and an F550M would soon arrive.  We
kicked around F40's bays full of a 275GTB, a pair of 250GT Lusso's, a
pair of Morgan's, an XJ140 racer, oh and I got to stand IN the engine
bay of a Miura being resto'd with me shins against the headers - I'd not
yet seen one in person and now this?  Neat. 

Time came for the main attraction...  The Discovery Channel was there to
film "Chasing Classic Cars", and the debut of a very special Ferrari.
One of TWO 1964 Ferrari 365P Mono Pisto's, this one a rebodied former
(crashed) racer featured at the 1964 Paris Auto Show.  It sits McLaren
F1 style, center with 2 outboard positions.  GNARLY!  It was the
predecessor to the eventual 206 Dino.  

We got up close and personal, and, being the have-kneepads-will-travel
HOOR that I am, when time came to push her out of the bay (to make room
for the red / tan 365 Daytona Spider) guess who LEAPED forward for a
hand on the rear bumper???  Herniated lumbar disc and all - as captured
in one of themthar shots donning the Irish sweater.

Wow.  What an experience.  I'd guess the thing for $12mm, my gut.  Wow.

Here's the shots hosted on my buddy's wife's Kodak account, excuse his
son's gratuitous parting shot heh heh (and his distinct photographic
ineptitude, I'd of course forgotten me camera). Enjoy:

http://olympus.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?Uc=zqdb8wt.7ocwmu9d&Uy=-5m
8x42&Upost_signin=Slideshow.jsp%3Fmode%3Dfromshare&Ux=0&mode=fromshare&c
onn_speed=1

And now back to your irregular unscheduled deprogramming...

-Paul hoor in the footsteps of Mark K.



ps.  further notching me F-car bedpost whynot, I WOT'd a black / tan '89
328GTS Quattrovalve the Wed. prior...  I *really* did NOT want to like
that car but ohhhhhhhhhh what a silkysmooth velveteen linear powerband
beckoning to 7800 ohhhhhhhh what a sound ohhhhhhhhhsoeasy to (and did)
throttlesteer opposite lock...  tho, the 6 degree night also showed it's
ohhhhhhhhhhhhh chassis flex / creak heh heh.   ANYwho...