auxilary Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztgfU31LgOI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big-phil Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 well it didn't roll over, so thats good right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrustnut Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Ah man, no problem. I'm sure there's body parts for those all over the place! Its hard for me to feel sorry for someone who races a car worth that much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rturbo 930 Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Ah man, no problem. I'm sure there's body parts for those all over the place! Its hard for me to feel sorry for someone who races a car worth that much.Well, what else are you gonna do? Let it sit in the garage so it can look pretty? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capt_furious Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 More than likely it's fixed better than new already. It's a rich man's toy that gets babied. Heck, even if it rolled 3 times and burned, it'd probably get rebuilt from the ground up. Anyway, Alex Zanardi he ain't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMortensen Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 More than likely it's fixed better than new already. It's a rich man's toy that gets babied. Heck, even if it rolled 3 times and burned, it'd probably get rebuilt from the ground up. Anyway, Alex Zanardi he ain't. That was my thought too. I guess I could cry for the rich owner who decided to put in on a race track and his hurting wallet, but I've got that thing I gotta do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
240hoke Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Thats pretty baddass....at least they are out on the track with it!! It may be worth 12 million but it wont cost near that to fix looks pretty cosmetic. Kudos to the owner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Juday Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 I was there. Saw it live at the corkscrew. The lap before that another TR spun and everybody peed their pants trying to avoid it. The crowd clapped and cheered as everyone got around clean. Then the next lap this numb scull takes a dirt excursion. This was the last Monterey Historic event. After 35 years the track owners tossed out the event organizer. More numb sculls. FYI, Jay Leno looks taller and younger on TV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMortensen Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Apparently he isn't a numbskull and isn't terrifically rich either. More info on the car and it's owner here: http://www.corner-carvers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=784662#post784662 Story seems to be that he lost his brakes at the top of the corkscrew... Website about the car and owner: http://www.tamsoldracecarsite.net/DavidLove1.html Newspaper story: Motor sports in Marin: Love still flogging his Ferrari after 45 years 14 August 2009 (Marin Journal) MOST 1958 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossas live a sheltered life, driven a few dozen miles each year with one eventual destination in mind: the auction block. There they can fetch six and even seven-figure prices. But that never seemed to be the destiny of chassis No. 0754, owned and driven since 1964 by San Rafael's David Love. After it was taken down from the tree which a previous owner launched it into at Laguna Seca in 1960, its appeal for collectors seemed to be forever compromised. The only thing to do was race it. Love has flogged that Ferrari throughout most of the last 45 years, competing in over 250 races, a feat few Ferraris on earth can match. This Saturday the 73-year-old Love will again take the green flag at the Monterey Historic Automobile Races at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. And if he finds victory lane he'll be no stranger to the locale; he won his class in the very first Monterey Historics in '74. He has always been a formidable competitor. That comes not only from all the seat-of-the-pants understanding of what the car tends to do on the track, but also from what the car's mechanical weaknesses are. Since he's done most of the repairs and maintenance over the years, he has learned how to best eliminate mechanical surprises. "It's more of a time machine than a racing car," Love said from his San Rafael home. "When you're in one of these things it's doing what it did when it was new with all the flaws as well." The primary challenge for the car is not so much a flaw as technology frozen in time. His model of Testa Rossa is the last to rely on drum brakes. Disc brakes were introduced the following year. The sound of the 3.0-liter V-12 when it roars to life can take your breath away. Enzo Ferrari called it "the song of the 12." Fed by six Weber carburetors, the Ferrari generates 290 horsepower pushing less than 1,900 pounds unladen. Long before he knew that there would be a market for thoroughly used race cars, Love had the foresight to save the original block which was unusable through wear and improper machining in rebuilds from previous owners. He had to wait nearly 20 years for welding and metal curing technology to progress to the point where the original block could be returned to factory spec and durability. Now the car is once again in "matching numbers" condition which is a big part of what has restored its appeal to collectors. While the car has stayed the same, the driver hasn't. Around 23 years ago Love was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. While life off the track can sometimes be compromised, it doesn't carry over to his racing. "That's the curious thing about it. I've talked to (former racer, writer and TV commentator) Sam Posey about it and he has Parkinson's and we've both come to the same conclusion: when you get in a racing car that's where you feel the most normal. "Adrenaline is a brain chemical like dopamine, which the lack of is Parkinson's disease," Love said. "It seems to me that the adrenaline that this particular activity generates seems to compensate somewhat for the lack of dopamine. I've noticed over the years that after I've finished a (race) weekend and I go back into the real world everything works better." His neurologist of 23 years agrees, even to the point of validating his racing appetite. Love couldn't ask for more. "Who else gets to race under doctor's orders?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capt_furious Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 When we assume... <---Duh. Much respect to the guy. OUCH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrustnut Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 My point was that it should be out there on the track, I just don't feel bad for a person that ownes a car like that when they put it into the wall. They know what they have and they put it out there, so no biggie when it wrecks (as long as you can walk away). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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