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This photo was taken on the same day as the previous several CPotD shots. It is a pair of Ferrari 250 LWBs, a coupe and a roadster. When I posted this originally during the event itself (the 2001 Forza Amelia rally) I gave it the caption:
“A Gazillion Lire worth of Ferraris over Lunch”
Now I could even say ” A gazillion Euros worth of Ferraris over Lunch!” 😉
I don’t recall these cars ever taking to the track that day. I wonder why?
Here is the Mystery Car from yesterday’s CPotD, and I’m not talking about the AC Greyhound. This was the green car behind the Jaguar at the extreme right of the frame. The dark area on the tail is NOT a spoiler, as one guesser posited… it is a sharp overhang above the deeply recessed taillights.
I’m pretty sure that it is a Ferrari, but what sort is beyond me. I’m sure you guys know though.
I’ve never made this site a “link blog” but I had to share this one:
Top 15 unexpected uses for BioDiesel
Too bad it won’t cure baldness. 😉
That is yours truly, muscling a rather valuable bit of machinery around a road course at speed. One of those “once in a lifetime opportunities” that you don’t pass up. I don’t recall what my time was on this run, or any of them for that matter, but I do remember that it was a ton of fun throwing that old car around the track. On one of my runs I called the office and hoped to broadcast my lap on the NOC speakerphones, but was dumped into voicemail instead. Damian, the phone system operator at the time saved the file as an MP3. As you can tell, I was a tad too occupied with the task at hand and was not able to provide a Jeremy Clarkson-style commentary whilst tugging that big steering wheel back and forth through the course.
A fun exercise for my readers will be to ID all the cars pictured here… there is one oddball and it is NOT the RPM tow vehicle dominating the background.
Here are several more shots of that Mini from the other day. You Mini Aficionados can tell us exactly what it is. Once you guys have sorted it all out I will reveal the most amazing thing about this particular Mini.
This should be a fun one. Taken at the New England 1000 a few years back, as we lined up for the morning start.
I just found out that I could be participating in this event again this year as a co-driver.
Great words, written and spoken by a great man, who happened also to be a Republican.
It seems that our current Vice President, also a Republican, has forgotten those words, and their meaning. This stupid, endless war is destroying our economy. Most of the people were against it from the start (myself included), and history has shown that the reasons and justifications for entering it were lies and falsehoods… or if you want to be generous and forgiving, incorrect assumptions and wishful thinking.
“We will be greeted as liberators”
“There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction.”
“The war will finance itself through the sale of oil.”
Of course this is also the man who after having been voted in on the promise of “bringing dignity back to the executive branch” told a colleague on the Senate floor to “Go fuck yourself.”