the Ferrari (is Ferrari the plural of Ferrari? or is it Ferraris)

Simple, elegant, beautiful in it's simplicity. As one famous designer once said, and is frequently quoted "Simplify, simplify, simplify"

The car that stunned me the most at the Art Center College Car Classic 2012, was this 1955 Lancia D50

 

Cruise for kids, fundraiser for the San Dieguito Boys and Girls clubs.. I learned about it too late to photograph it this year

 Not many happy reasons get a bridge shut down... but this one did. A lot of sports and exotic cars put together a fundraiser event to raise funds for the kids... very cool. Nino Venturella of Wells Fargo wealth management recruited from his clients with exquisite cars those that wanted to join in the cause to help out the kids... and started at the historic Hotel Del Coronado and had a police escort along the route to cut down on the stop lights breaking up the parade (maybe even to keep leadfoots in check.. there were at least 2 Bugatti Veyron, and lots of Porsche, Vipers, Vettes, Lambos, Ferrari, Astons, and Rolls Royce)
At the Del Mar track there was a car show (from what I read in a magazine article) and then a party at an airport hanger.


From the Hotel Coronado to the racetrack grounds of Del Mar, with a good look at the landscape and freeways that show off San Diego's natural good looks

Info, video, and images from http://www.c4ksd.com where there are many more galleries of the event at the various locations they stopped

best new idea I've heard of

in the new Ferrari F12 Berlinetta they put active ducts in the lower front fascia, to open and cool the front brakes during heavy cornering, to close for high speed aerodynamics

the Ferrari GTO in 1963, racing as they were made to, captured as art with a powder coated laser cut stainless artwork, only 6 to sell

to buy one, email Paul Chenard the Canadian artist from Halifax, Nova Scotia and of http://automobiliart.blogspot.com/ 
(902) 443-5394

www.facebook.com/automobiliart

Featured artist on the editors page of Automobile Magazine for his book http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/07/artist-paul-chenard-has-made-sweet.html

The whole piece is 25"x 10" 

Everything that you see in black on the piece has been actually laser-cut out, even the Cavallino Rampante of the N.A.R.T. logo!
$1500 plus shipping. Payment can be made in person at the Goodwood Revival, or instructions will be given by email, receipt of payment is the guarantee of acquisition. Paul will have his laptop with him at Goodwood and checking emails regularly

Of the 10 made, 2 are being brought to Goodwood to sell, one is going to the UK company Historic Car Art to sell, one to Hortons Books to sell, and the remaining 6 will be available through emailing Paul, or going to his website http://automobiliart.blogspot.com/

A cop dies in Bangkok, and how? By being hit by a member of the 4th richest family in Thailand, the Red Bull owners, and sole Ferrari importer to Thailand

A dented silver Ferrari, a dead Thai policeman whose body was dragged for 200 meters under its wheels, a family driver ready to take the fall for the wealthy 27-year-old heir to the world-famous Red Bull energy drink empire.

The grandson of the creator of the Red Bull energy drink has been arrested for allegedly hitting a police officer with his Ferrari and then dragging his body down a Bangkok street, police said Monday. Police took Vorayuth Yoovidhya, 27, in for questioning in the officer's death after tracing oil streaks for several blocks to his family's gated estate in a wealthy neighborhood of the Thai capital.
In the Thai case, the police officer, who was on his motorcycle, was hit by the Ferrari and his bike was dragged by the car 90 meters (295 feet) after his body hit the windshield and fell on the road, before the alleged driver sped away to his residence not far from the scene, police Lt. Col. Viradol Thubthimdee, who is responsible for the case
The victim, Sgt. Maj. Wichean Glanprasert, was 47.

Vorayuth admitted he drove the charcoal gray sports car but said the police officer's motorcycle abruptly cut in front of his vehicle, said police lead investigator.

Bangkok's top police official, Lt. Gen. C Toopgrajank, said he took over the investigation after a lower-ranking policeman initially tried to cover up the crime by turning in a bogus suspect.

Comronwit led a team of officers to search the compound of late Red Bull founder C Yoovidhya, who was one of Thailand's wealthiest men before he passed away this year. Police confiscated a Ferrari with a badly damaged front bumper and broken windshield

The Yoovidhya family was ranked the fourth richest in Thailand this year by Forbes magazine, with a net worth of $5.4 billion. The Red Bull creator C Yoovidhya died in  March, leaving his heirs a wide range of businesses, including the globally popular energy drink, hospitals and real estate.

The family also co-owns the sole authorized importer of Ferrari cars in Thailand.

Similarly, underage driver Orachorn Thephasadin na Ayudhya, was given a suspended two-year prison sentence on Friday for causing the deaths of nine people in 2010 when the car she was driving collided with a passenger van.

That case caused outrage on social media over how a young girl with an aristocratic family name managed to escape jail and emerged with only a seven-year driving ban.

info and photo from http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/04/us-thailand-justice-idUSBRE8830EM20120904 and http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57506807-504083/red-bull-founders-grandson-arrested-for-allegedly-killing-thai-officer-in-ferrari-hit-and-run/  and  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443819404577632872864023962.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Barnfind Ferrari 250 GTE

learned about from http://mattstonecars.com/blog/?p=216

Take for example, the case of film director Agostino “Dino” De Laurentiis’ Ferrari 250 GTE which was just expertly sold by Bonhams at its Monaco auction held just last month. This was at one time a beautiful automobile, resplendant in metallic silver paint over red leather, with a screaming 3.0-liter Ferrari V-12 up front and gleaming Borrani wire wheels on its suspension. The car has been sitting for decades, but appeared very complete and whole, which adds considerable to its value and appeal.

 Bonhams sold the car for about $163,000, and it will take every penny of $100,000 to restore it properly and make it once again the beautiful automobile it deserves to be. When completed, it’ll probably be worth about that same $100,000, perhaps a little more, placing, for the moment, no value on its celbrity ownership. Hmmmm….unless I were the late director’s close relative, I’m not sure having his $100,000 car would be worth $263,000 to me.

Billionaire wrecks a 30 million dollar 1962 Ferrari GTO

http://www.bornrich.com/billionaire-christopher-cox-30-million-ferrari-250-gto-car-crash.html for the story