There are cars that are never with their owner. They're with the company that made them, loaned to a museum, etc...
The Ferrari I took out today has buttons on the dashboard that don't even line up. By today's standards, it's not even all that fast.
There are no nannies. It doesn't even have airbags. I don't mean it doesn't have passenger airbags, plural. I mean it doesn't have any at all. So you need to be strapped in properly.
It's a timeless beauty, an iconic car. There weren't all that many made. They made ~1300 of them with only ~200 being destined for the US market. It has a lovely exhaust note, but it's not a 12 cyl like it should have been.
For the era, it's very fast and handles like a dream - though the steering is heavy, even with power steering.
I didn't drive it all that much today, 'cause it has been threatening rain all day. I suspect it won't need new tires after the week has gone by. It'll happily spin the tires, but there's no reason to with this car. I'll burn some extra rubber off by cornering hard, but that won't be too bad.
Were people staring at you?
Not too many, 'cause I wasn't out long and it's mid-week. The tourists are mostly gone right now. They pretty much all left (for the season) after Labor Day.
With the tourists being gone, that probably makes the roads safer
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