[asphaltgambler]

...........what a great story............profiling a guy in New York, who is now 85 and finally decided to sell his beloved Ferrari Lusso. Wayne was there to pick it up.

Seems the guy was vacationing with his wife in Italy....1967 and on a whim picked up a local rag and found a used Ferrari for sale. Guy goes to the dealership, says the salesman takes him for a ride at rediculous speeds on the local freeway.

They get back and negotiate a deal for $4500/USD. Back then that is about what a new Corvettte would have cost. Then it costs him another $1K to ship it over. Once here him and his wife drive the h*ll out of it every chance they get. So much so that over time he ends up servicing or rebuilding almost every mechanical part including a repaint. Most of which he did all by himself.

You can see the sadness in his eyes as he recalls story after story about his wife and him would drive it all over and crowds would gather to look at it.

Fast forward to present. His wife died @12 years ago, he can no longer physically maintain the car and it sits in a tiny 1-car garage.

He is convinced to sell it by a friend, and it seems, partly because he needs some $$$ for his remaining years. As the car is loaded into the trailer and Wayne starts to close the ramp door you can see he is tearing up. Wayne sees this and pauses closing the door..................he says "You want to take one last look before I close it?"................


Too much emotion for me ..........................reminds me of my father