anthony7777
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this past sunday was the second annual new england region's "festa di ferrari" presented at "the stamford ct. italian center" held for the benefit of the "make a wish foundation",dozens of both old and new cars wonderfully assembled at a terrific venue, great park like setting, childrens play ground, one indoor swimming pool, one outdoor pool,totaly remodeled meeting center capable of hosting up to 600 people,parking lot for 200 300 cars, they do weddings, corp. fungtions etc, huge tents for venders,a true family outing experience, many other cars showed up cobras vintage b.m.ws,triumphs, m.g.as, gt-40s on and on, would make a perfect lbc gathering location,and one vintage alfa romeo 8c2300 once driven by such greats astazio nuvolari,luigi chinetti,raymond sommers and nuvilari drivers won the lemams race with this car in 1933. see attch. sorry i was so excited to go i forgot my camera so the attch .is a picture from the catalog. yesterday monday 26th, i had a white austin healey bj8 go by me as the driver blew thier horn and waved franticaly as they passed, so i made a u turn and followed the car to its place of residence about a half mile from my own house, feeling a bit like a stalker i introduced myself to the lady behind the wheel,turns out that she had owned a brg bj8 that id seen around for the past 3 years but not latley, she explained she had totaled it while in a turn and a kid in an on coming pick up truck missjudged something and hit here head on,and that her husband had just bought her this white one,her car didnt look bad at a distance but from her complaints about it and a quick walk around showed a left front break caliper that wouldnt release, carbs completely out of adjustment and the timing so far off i dont know how it ran at all, i advised her to no longer drive the car until these issues were addressed a bab in the woods so to speak, and her husband must be oblivious to anything mechanical for allowing her to do so. she asked if id do the work for her but i politly declined sighting a lack of time as my reason, i could see it unfolding as we talked that shed be making the half mile drive from her house to mine to "oh tony please i want to be able to drive it this weekend could you just repair this or fix that or change the other thing for me" etc. etc at a most inconvenient time.and that would be when id be doing all that stuff for myself. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/yesnod.gif