A month ago now but I took my Dino and F40 for a photo shoot at a local aerodrome. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Not particularly good focus, but it captures the moment...., lovely clear day today...kevin Image Unavailable, Please Login
Indeed Tony, beautiful English countryside mud... as I found out when I got back on the drive.. grrrr. Don’t regret it though!, Kevin
My Dino was the only touch of red up here on the Blue Ridge Parkway today. All of the leaves are gone and the Parkway was free of Leafers --I was free to run her at a good clip-- a perfect day. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Andrew- Thank you for your compliment- and is a great lead-in to a thread I was thinking about starting about Timevalve. Thank you again for recommending the Timevalve exhaust. It not only looks more correct than a few replica mufflers I have seen-- the exhaust note is just as I remember when I bought my Dino 46 years ago in 1974. Full throated beauty. It installed without removing the axle and it all lined up perfectly-- a one-hour install job tops! As you know, I had one of the replica ANSA exhausts that Dennise McCann had produced in 1995. It was beautifully fabricated (beautiful TIG welds and pipe bends)- but it had the wrong sound. It was very very subdued. What I really appreciated is that Mike worked with me. Due to one of our discussions, he pulled my build off of the jig he had been using for many years for fabricating US-style ANSA replica mufflers and found the more correct US version jig that he had forgotten that he had made a few years back. It had been stored in a backroom. A few years ago a customer brought in a NOS US-style exhaust for Mike to copy so he could save the OEM for Concours shows while using Mike's accurate copy on the street. Mike's original jig did not put in the dip under the right axle as the original US ANSA came with. The previous owner of Timevalve had used a US ANSA muffler--which for some reason-- had been modified by welding in a Euro style straight tube to the front header as a pattern for his US style jig. No idea why the US-style muffler had been modified this way but it has been the jig that Timevalve has used for years. The only parts that Mike does not fabricate or install on his US-style muffler, are the small thin sheet metal clamshell insulator shields around the pipes going to the headers. I am now a big fan of Mike and Timevalve. Mike has brought my exhaust note back which is a big part of the Dino experience.
Does getting positioned to get loaded up count? Shawn Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
I only drove 07610 out of my garage and onto my dealer's truck as it is off for service. They delivered my new Roma at the same time so I got both in shot. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
well done Iain.... the Roma is for me the most beautiful Ferrari of recent years (many years.... since the Dino...) what a perfect match.....!!! great tast!!!
First drive this year. Excellent Easter weather and the whole Italian family were on the road. It takes a bit of an effort to keep them all serviced and running.. Happy Easter to all. Best, Peter Image Unavailable, Please Login
Beautiful Dino! We are looking to move out that way and will be searching in June. I do not have a Dino, but the 458 will be coming with. So pretty...and great driving I hear.
We moved here in 2009- 10 miles from the Blue Ridge Parkway. When we move up here in the mountains it was still very rural and for the most part, it still is. But in the last three years, many have moved here to get away from the city but they brought all their city habits, wants, and craziness with them. They are turning the slow pace of the area into the stressful place that they left behind. We are glad we experienced the friendly mountain ways before the city moved here.
yesterday just south of Hamburg in Stade.... met up with an old friend and his MG Arnolt Coupe from 1953, body by Bertone... pretty nice and rare car.... "At the beginning of the 1950s, Stanley Arnolt, a racing enthusiast, gave up the manufacture of marine engines and devoted himself to the resale of English cars. He founded S.H. Arnolt Inc and became the main MG, Riley and Morris importer in the American Midwest. Later he also became a Bentley, Rolls-Royce and Aston-Martin dealer. In 1952, during a visit to the Turin Motor Show, he fell under the spell of a coupé and a convertible presented by the Italian coachbuilder Bertone. Built on the chassis of the small MG TD, their innovative lines are the result of the collaboration of Giovanni Bertone, Nuccio Bertone and Franco Scaglione. Very interested, Arnolt negotiates an exclusivity contract for these models. The Bertone establishments, in financial difficulty, cannot afford to miss such a bargain. The American importer plans to build 200 models: 100 coupes and 100 convertibles. The chassis equipped with their engines from the MG factory in Abingdon were sent to Genoa by boat and then transited to Turin by truck. The steel bodywork with aluminum sashes was welded to the chassis and not bolted as was done at MG. The cars were then shipped to the United States and then transported to Chicago to finalise assembly. The car could be fitted with optional Borrani spoke rims or a Motorola radio. The Arnolt MG is equipped with the 1250cc XPAG engine developing 54 horsepower from the TD, some cars will receive a Shorrock compressor as an option. Unfortunately, production will not reach 200 units as the MG factory will stop supplying the chassis. In the end, 102 cars will be manufactured between 1953 and 1954: 67 coupes and 36 convertibles" Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login