Ferrari anyone?

[Grant Lamontagne]

Last weekend was the Italian Festival here in Ottawa, and since I live right on the border of Little Italy and Chinatown, it seemed like an obvious place to go hang out, drink alcoholic samples and eat fancy gelatto.  In addition to that the Ferrari club was in attendance, and I snapped a pic of most of them... and a few other cars that were hanging around.



















Sneaky Alfa.... 







Capagna T-Rex- half dune buggy, half superbike.



Fiat with delusions of grandeur....











Perhaps my favorite...





Luigi and Mario's Ferrari....   











Sorry some of the pics are a bit off- the "security" consisted of little girls that shouldn't dress the way they were dressed for at least another 7-10 years that spent most of their time posing on the cars while taking selfies and pretending they owned them while other people all played the "oh look, a camera, let me pretend I didn't notice and walk in front of it" game. 

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[dks]

Did you buy one?

They are not very good offroad, but a forum owner needs one.

[sLaughterMed]

Those Fiat's are so pretty

[kirk13]

That's a great selection of Fezzers!

[ToolJoe]

That new Fiat 124 Spyder is a purty car. 

[Grant Lamontagne]

That new Fiat 124 Spyder is a purty car. 

I like the Alfa 4C better. 

You know, if you want a car that looks pretty but doesn't do much else....  like run.....

Def

[Grant Lamontagne]

Did you buy one?

They are not very good offroad, but a forum owner needs one.

I honestly don't know what the hell I would do with a Ferrari.  I'd be far too scared to park it anywhere outdoors, I'd be too scared to drive it for fear of losing the entire undercarriage to a pothole..... honestly I don't think the anxiety would be worth it to me.

Megan's father had a classic Shelby Cobra GT500 when she was a little girl and he had to sell it because the anxiety of having that much money sitting there, in the garage, waiting for a little girl to scratch it with her bike was too much for him.  Honestly I'd feel the same way.

I really doubt I could enjoy it. 

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[dks]

Get the mx5/miata. Same car (both build by Mazda) , Japanese (see working) engine.

[Gareth]

I spy another interloper.



Very cool day mate.

[Grant Lamontagne]

I forgot that one was in there!  Good eye Gareth!

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[Aloha]

Gorgeous cars, if I could afford one I'd probably not buy one either.  Not really my thing and I know I'd be to stressed out taking it out. 

[Grant Lamontagne]

It's not so much the money either.... sports cars are so fragile.  I would be much happier driving a million dollar truck than a million dollar car.  At least they won't be destroyed by potholes or road construction.

Plus if I had a car that did 200mph, I'd want to go 200mph and sadly there is nowhere in Canada to do that.  We don't even have track days here, so those cars are a complete waste, especially when you realize that you can't drive it six months of every year.

My former employer had an R Type Jaguar and it was useless in the winter.  It had a hard time not losing its arse end on dry pavement in the summer- ass in a bit of wet ice and it won't ever go anywhere.

A Ferrari with much more power than  Jag would be even worse.

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[cody6268]

I live in an area where the median income is about $25,000.   I saw a Ferrari owned by a CVS employee once, and thought, what the heck? I thought, Must be a kid with rich parents, as literally no one could afford one in my area.   Even if I had that kind of money, I wouldn't buy one. They're too low to the ground (I've drug the bottom on the driving school's Kia Forte, and that Ferrari would be even easier to drag the bottom on), too powerful, and require a strict (and costly) maintenance schedule.

I remember a car salesman once asked me, "If you had a million dollars, what car would you get".  I answered, I'd buy some land in the Midwest, move there, then spend the rest on a used truck or Jeep.  I said, most of those million dollar cars don't have cupholders or air conditioning, either, when even cheap cars have them as standard. I've already got a (practical) sporty Italian car, an early '80s Fiat 124 (Pininfarina made) Spyder that hasn't been run since the mid '90s, and was my father's.


Great photos!   I think the T-Rex is an interesting little car.   As for the "new 124 Spyder--my first impression is "Fiata", since it's mostly a Miata underneath.

[Grant Lamontagne]

A million dollars worth of land and an old truck sounds pretty darned good to me too.

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[PTRSAK]

I know that some people look down on the 308GTB/GTS Ferrari as being overrated, but to me it is THE Ferrari. And I'd say that anyone who grew up watching Magnum PI would feel the same.

I'd also go for the land + old truck option.

[ColoSwiss]

Great photos.   

I'd go with a half-million dollars worth of land and a couple of decent vehicles. Also fly business on my future trips rather than steerage.

[Sea Monster]

I had a Fiat once. It was basically a ferrari.

If Ferrari tried to built a shopping trolley out of RC car parts.


The only "European" car for me is a Lada 

[classicrock]

Swisschamp and a Ferrari. Took this picture at my brother's body repair workshop.



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[Gerhard Gerber]

Dude came past in a 458 right as I was turning into my yard yesterday after work........was rubber-necking so badly I'm lucky I didn't touch sides.... 

[ToolJoe]

If you own a 308, the Magnum PI theme song should play every time you start it up. 

[Whoey]

I noticed the lambo immediately as well, tbh, one of the nicer looking ones out of the group

[Zed]

I still would love a 308 gts and yes I would play the magnum pi theme tune  great pics Grant 

[Grant Lamontagne]

But the important question is, would you grow a moustache.  And, if you did, would you be able to drive it while under the influence of a moustache?



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[Alan K.]

I'd need a fair amount of axle grease and a shoe horn to wedge myself in to any of those and I'm afraid I'd need a gantry or a derrick to haul myself out.

[Grant Lamontagne]

We have a Derek with a forklift, does that count?

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[Alan K.]

It'll do in a pinch.

[Etherealicer]

 

[Etherealicer]

These days I don't get too excited over Ferraris anymore they are fairly common here (long story, but in short: Italy started to check taxes of people driving expensive cars and suddenly there were a lot of relatively cheap Ferraris available). Of course the older ones are still droolworthy (I drive by a Testarossa and a Dino every day).

But what I really love is this:

Luigi and Mario's Ferrari....   

My favorite car... I once saw one converted to pick-up truck

That is just an adorable car... we call them "Knutschchugele" (Translates to something like "French kissing ball")

[AlephZero]

These days I don't get too excited over Ferraris anymore they are fairly common here (long story, but in short: Italy started to check taxes of people driving expensive cars and suddenly there were a lot of relatively cheap Ferraris available). Of course the older ones are still droolworthy (I drive by a Testarossa and a Dino every day).

But what I really love is this:

Luigi and Mario's Ferrari....   

My favorite car... I once saw one converted to pick-up truck

That is just an adorable car... we call them "Knutschchugele" (Translates to something like "French kissing ball")

Oookayy, better not ask why...

[Grant Lamontagne]

French kissing ball?  Isn't that a Fiat 500?  Shouldn't it be an Italian kissing ball?  Or did I miss something...?   

Def