(Gizmodo.com)
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
A Well Hidden Form Of Function
The Ferrari 550 Had One Of The Most Luxuriously Pointless Options A Sports Car Can Have
The Ferrari 550 was a sporty car, but it was luxurious as well. These things cost $204,000 when new, so I guess they had to be. It should come as little surprise then, that when Ferrari offered an interior roll bar, it wrapped it in leather.
Yes, it makes sense to put an integrated roll bar in a car that can knock on the door of 200 miles per hour. No, it makes no sense to line it in leather other than it fits in with the rest of the leather-lined interior.
(Jalopnik.com)
The Ferrari 550 was a sporty car, but it was luxurious as well. These things cost $204,000 when new, so I guess they had to be. It should come as little surprise then, that when Ferrari offered an interior roll bar, it wrapped it in leather.
Yes, it makes sense to put an integrated roll bar in a car that can knock on the door of 200 miles per hour. No, it makes no sense to line it in leather other than it fits in with the rest of the leather-lined interior.
(Jalopnik.com)
Talk About Storing A Gem Kinda In Plain Sight
Apartment Find: This Ferrari 250 GT PF Coupe Was Hidden In Hollywood For Decades
Andrew Golseth: How does one just stumble upon a stowed away Ferrari?
Owner: I came across this car through a client of mine. I had heard rumors that there was a vehicle in an apartment building that he owned, but I never saw it. He was very closed lipped about it. He never wanted to say much until recently. Once he came to retirement age, he started selling things in preparation of moving out of state.
I kind of kept badgering him about it, and eventually, he let me see the car. I didn’t believe it when I saw it. It was literally inside a one-bedroom unit of an apartment building in Hollywood.
AG: Do you know the story of how it ended up inside an apartment?
Owner: He is the second owner. He assembled a five-inch binder full of documents; the car is very well documented. It looks like, according to this binder, the car started assemblage in October of ‘59 and finished December ‘59.
It was sold new in California to John von Neumann. Then the gentleman that I purchased it from was the second owner, who bought it on July 29 of 1975. I gathered that he enjoyed the car for probably eight years or so, into the early 80s. From the records, it seems like he started to restore the vehicle. At that point, he actually had the engine completely redone by Briggs Cunningham’s shop. I don’t know why exactly, but he told me that Hollywood was a rough area of town, so he wanted to store it away somewhere safe.
He decided the best place to put it was to cut open a wall in one of the apartment buildings he owned and park it inside, completely intact, and seal it back so nobody could tell anything was in there. That’s where it’s been since around 1985.
(Petrolicious.com)
Andrew Golseth: How does one just stumble upon a stowed away Ferrari?
Owner: I came across this car through a client of mine. I had heard rumors that there was a vehicle in an apartment building that he owned, but I never saw it. He was very closed lipped about it. He never wanted to say much until recently. Once he came to retirement age, he started selling things in preparation of moving out of state.
I kind of kept badgering him about it, and eventually, he let me see the car. I didn’t believe it when I saw it. It was literally inside a one-bedroom unit of an apartment building in Hollywood.
AG: Do you know the story of how it ended up inside an apartment?
Owner: He is the second owner. He assembled a five-inch binder full of documents; the car is very well documented. It looks like, according to this binder, the car started assemblage in October of ‘59 and finished December ‘59.
It was sold new in California to John von Neumann. Then the gentleman that I purchased it from was the second owner, who bought it on July 29 of 1975. I gathered that he enjoyed the car for probably eight years or so, into the early 80s. From the records, it seems like he started to restore the vehicle. At that point, he actually had the engine completely redone by Briggs Cunningham’s shop. I don’t know why exactly, but he told me that Hollywood was a rough area of town, so he wanted to store it away somewhere safe.
He decided the best place to put it was to cut open a wall in one of the apartment buildings he owned and park it inside, completely intact, and seal it back so nobody could tell anything was in there. That’s where it’s been since around 1985.
(Petrolicious.com)
Did You Know - Chevrolet Camaro Edition
7 Secrets of the Original Chevrolet Camaro
What exactly is a Camaro?
What exactly is a Camaro?
- It’s a made up word to fit the Chevrolet naming scheme of the time (Corvette, Caprice, Chevelle, etc.). Some enterprising Chevy PR type claims to have found the word (after the fact) in an old French dictionary as a slang word for friend (as in camaraderie), but it appear that’s an after-the-fact back story.
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