Bruce's comments got me to take a look at this shot, which I overlooked when it was first posted. It's a well done photo Paul, but the doesn't move me like earlier Ferraris. To my eye it's become a generic super sports car, lacking in the kind of style and panache of the older "egg crate" grille Ferraris.
When I was in my mid- to late-teens, I used to go down to Luigi Chinetti's shop in NYC a few Saturdays a month, and, for some reason, was allowed back in the shop area where the cars were repaired, and where I drooled at the gorgeous works of automotive art.. Stuck in a corner was a dusty old Type 144 Mille Miglia, La Barchetta, the one that Chinetti drove at LeMans in 1949. Well, one day the car needed to be moved to another location, and I heard one of the mechanics call, "Hey, Kid, c'mere, I need your help," in a heavy Italian accent. What he needed was for someone to sit in the car and steer it while he and another fellow pushed it to its new place in the garage. Man, was I thrilled! Some years ago a couple of friends and I went down to Pebble Beach for the races and the concours, and to enjoy the auctions. We paid a few bucks to register as bidders in the auction, mainly to get better seats and to enjoy a better view of the cars. Well, a very rare old Ferrari came up for auction (don't ask me to recall the model or what made it so rare), and when the bidding started I just couldn't help myself. I ended up bidding 1.4 million for the car (knowing full well that it would sell for a lot more) and if you've never experienced that sort of excitement, you're missing something. As it turned out the car sold for a lot more than my meager bid, but for a moment there my adrenalin was pumping <LOL> Thanks for rekindling the memories;-)) Shel > PS> Enzo Ferarris are, well, really expensive. I was surprised to see one > PS> out in traffic among the other 40,000 cars at the Woodward Avenue Dream > PS> Cruise in Detroit last weekend. Of course it's not as surprising as > PS> seeing a million dollar F1 car in a vintage race. If you can afford to > PS> break it, you can do what you want. In any case, I shot the Enzo with > PS> my SMC A 400/5.6 on the *ist D. ISO 200, tripod, RAW. > PS> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2639520&size=lg Shel
