[s-cars] VLAC: Coffee & Cars

[LL - NY]

Just getting to this. All I can say is....WOW!  Never knew of the 365, damn,
that's beeeeYOUtiful!!!!

On 1/8/08, pkrasusky at ups.com <pkrasusky at ups.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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...
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