Made me chuckle.

[JPSmit]

Doesn't tell the whole story I know - but at another level not far off the truth.

 

[pdplot]

Which one would you rather have as a daily driver?

 

[LarryK]

MG, wouldn't worry about people scratching it and cheaper insurance

 

[JPSmit]

MG, wouldn't worry about people scratching it and cheaper insurance

I agree. don't get me wrong I would love to see and even drive the Ferrari but my goodness it would terrify me. I have a number of car club friends who won't take their cars anywhere where it might be left alone for fear of being vandalized. The Midget I can just leave and not worry.

 

[RickF]

I agree. don't get me wrong I would love to see and even drive the Ferrari but my goodness it would terrify me. I have a number of car club friends who won't take their cars anywhere where it might be left alone for fear of being vandalized. The Midget I can just leave and not worry.

You guys need to stay out of the 'hood.

 

[LarryK]

Sheesh, I can't even squeeze into a Midget. Changed a clutch for a guy and he had to test drive it himself. With my legs, a TR6 isn't much better. Don't have the problem with my Jags. But, the Ferrari is too much to trust around regular people.

 

[JPSmit]

You guys need to stay out of the 'hood.

I know! Actually as I wrote this I realized my one friend didn't want to take his car (Roller) to a dinner theatre in rural Ontario Amish country.

 

[JPSmit]

Sheesh, I can't even squeeze into a Midget. Changed a clutch for a guy and he had to test drive it himself. With my legs, a TR6 isn't much better. Don't have the problem with my Jags. But, the Ferrari is too much to trust around regular people.

I still fit - but I fear that is the future...... (just love getting old )

 

[NutmegCT]

hmmm - makes one wonder ... having classic old cars but being afraid of driving them seems a bit self-defeating. My '53 MGTD was run off the road and into a ditch by motorcycles - and that was on a two lane blacktop country road. My '58 Rambler was crowded onto an Interstate shoulder by cars racing along at 30 over the speed limit.

yeesh

 

[LarryK]

Imagine your nerves if it was the Ferrari instead of the MG or the Rambler.

 

[NutmegCT]

Only if it were my *spare* Ferrari.

 

[Jim_Gruber]

Was at Amelia Island this weekend. No less than 10 Ferrari 275 GTB/s and even a GTO. All fabulous. Glad I wasn't the judge for Best In Class for that group. 1 BE Mike Merritt from PA showed up for Cars and Coffee, a very nice all original BE, and there was a Big Healey on display but paled in comparison to the other cars in it's class.

 

[Hamish Racing]

i have a friend who has a collection of classic italian cars
and he called me up one day to drive one up the a new club meeting
he handed me the keys to the miura
and a mate filmed this for me ( the sound helps at the beginning

i have told him he can drive my TR !!

H

 

[DrEntropy]

Long time since I'd seen an Espada! Quite the lineup.

Any of the "exotic" examples we'd get in the shop for resto or engine rebuild, after I'd done the engine I would drive it the first five hundred miles to be certain it was right. A come-back due to immediate client abuse was not an option. The "responsibility factor" was always first and foremost on my mind. A Weber'd up V-12 Ferrari 400 was the last one I did, drove it as a commuter car for a week. 100 mile round trips to home and back, mostly on an Interstate highway. Had "cr*p down th' back of me neck" most of the time!

I'll stick with my humble little four cylinder examples, thankewverymuch.