What a Ride!!!!!

Candy and I took her 400i up and over the Cascade mountians to Levenworth today. Finally warm and sunny. Stevens Pass hiway is a 4700 foot hi pass up through a slice of the beautiful Cascades. Still lots of snow alongside the road and up on the ski slopes, for June.

The hiway follows the Snohomish river on the westside and once on top of the pass you follow the Icecicle river down east through Tumwater Canyon. The Icecicle river in various places has up to grade 5 rapids. Incredible beauty and mother nature at her best.

The Ferrari ran flawlessly. The total trip was just over 220 miles. This was our first real road trip since purchase, so I was busy watching all gauges and taking notice of the cars idiosyncricies.

Great smooth acceleration, vibration free hiway speeds. Good strong passing acceleration from higher speeds. Saving the best for last, with the top down under accel, up the long grades the exhaust was music to our ears..................and we averaged a pinch over 13mpg.

Once back on the westside of the hill, we filled up with non ethnanol fuel at a station we just found less than 5 miles from our home. We both had a delightful ride and yes we shared the driving, afterall, it is her car.

Damn the 400i Cabrilolet is an incredible road car and does it ever get the looks. While we were having lunch in parking area by the river, we noticed a young man driving back and forth accross the back of the Ferrari checking it out. As we approached the car to leave, he yelled out to us, and kindly told us that was the coolest Camero he had ever seen!!!!!!!!!!! Gee that really made our day.

Howard and Candy musolf
1981 308gtsi
1982 400i Cabriolet
Maserati spider
2 many brass era cars.

 

I have not been able to find a patch cord for my Brownie hawkeye camera, seems kodak, does not supply them anymore!!!!!!!!

I finially got my laptop cleared of the virus it took on from the cruise ships network. I will post some factory pictures and some other neat car pictures from our recent trip to Italy.

Howard Musolf
1981 308gtsi
1982 400i Cabriolet
Maserati Spider
2 many brass era cars