Ferrari in Beverly Hills

Hey everybodeee!

Ferrari was in full effect today in Beverly Hills.  They had over a handful of blocks closed all day for this particular event.  This Ferrari anniversary party was about a new Ferrari F-60 America.  Only a lucky 10 will be available in the US of A.

Lots of people!

Jermain Jackson was in the house with people lining up to take pictures of him.

This is a 1953 340 Mexico

Say hello to the 1950 250 Berlinetta

1965 250 LM

This is a super nice 10

1960 250 TR.  

275 GTS Spyder.  Similar to the Ferris Bueller's Day Off car.

1966 275 GTB

1958 250 TR.

1996 F50- GT only one in existence.

They didn't even drive this car to the trailer... they had to push it!

This 1956 410 SuperAmerica and was one of the few white Ferraris...

The actual model of this is called "La Ferrari"

Here is the back of it.

F-40

Funny thing about F-40s, is that they technically are not rare... 

they made "only 1,350" as opposed to the other cars that have less than a handful in existence.  I still like them though... first car to go 200mph!

This is the Miami Vice 1985  Ferrari Testarossa!  Funny thing was that the first Ferrari in the tv show was actually a FAKE.  Yup... they used a fake red Ferrari Daytona.  Nice car but it was fake.  Apparently Ferrari found out about it and GAVE them this car to use and they "killed off' the fake one.

This is the actual vehicle used in the TV series.  Note the single driver sided mirror.  They added the other side in 1987. You can see the chips from the wear and tear.

Check out those "cheese grater" vents!

Rear view.

365 GTB/4 

The unofficial name is "Daytona" because that year Ferrari kicked ass at the Daytona race.  At the time this was the fastest car you could buy.  Brock Yates drove this one in a race across the US in 1971 and won!

1967 330 P4.  Wow, this car really looked amazing.

  This car is remarkable.

The joke was that people were saying that the cars were hybrids or electric because they had to push some of them and they were super quiet compared to all the other cars.

Ferraris in Pasadena

There were all these Pasadena earlier today and I want to share with you all what you missed out on. 

Here is a Ferrari F-50.  There were only 349 made.  You can check this one at the Peterson Museum.  These go for 700k+

This would be a 288 GTO.  There are only 277 made and cost north of 300k.

This would be a Ferrari F-40.  It has a very simiar engine as the 288 GTO (above).  1,315 have been made.

They re-visited the triple tailpipe in their new 458 Italia.

Check out the intercoolers of the twin-turbo V-8!  I wonder if the trunk cover gets dirty easily?

Here is another pic of it.  They really took care of this car.

Note the tiny luggage compartment.  Normally the spare tire goes there...

So, there were several other autos other than Ferraris.  More notably the coming of the new Mercedes SLS.  I really like this car for a couple of reasons.... this car comes from AMG from the start, its waaay cheaper than the old SLR, and looks better than the SLR!  I didn't expect it to get 20 MPG on the freeway!

These bozos opened up everything on this car. 

I wish I could have taken some pictures when it was closed up.

Mr. Issiz,  Thank you for making this Mercedes engine.

Hello everyone! This is my new blog. My goal here is to give you an idea of what is going on in my mind! I read lots of news articles and I will post some commentary about some things I find interesting. I do have a yelp page http://br430.yelp.com/ and my intention is that this blog is an extension of my yelp page.

So my first topic that I am writing about is this BLIND Turkish pop singer raced his $250,000+ baby blue Ferrari 430 Scuderia to 182MPH. His buddy guided him in red Ferrari 430 Scuderia that followed him.

I wasn't even aware that the Guinness Book of World Records had a category for fastest blind driver. I do know that they HAD a category for drinking alcoholic beverages but they removed it in 1991 in fear of litigation. I guess they weren't concerned about blind people driving fast. Here is the link to the youtube video of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDh4loFf-eQ
Yes, there are more relevant topics out there, but this one was pretty outrageous and I am a Ferrari fan!