> I went back to the shop many times, always on Saturday mornings. At no
> time did anyone ever ask me to leave, or to not take pictures, or to
> stop drooling on the cars. It seemed as if no one even noticed me.  And
> then, one Saturday morning, Luigi Chinetti himself came up to me, and
> asked if I'd be kind enough to help the mechanic move "La Barchetta" -
> if it wouldn't be too much trouble.  Imagine how I felt when the
> mechanic suggested that I sit in the car and steer it while he and Luigi
> pushed it across the garage to its new spot in the morning sun.  Man,
> the memory of that moment, and the following moment when Luigi and the
> mechanic asked if I'd be kind enough to take a picture of them standing
> by that marvelous red machine.


Wow! That is a LOVELY story.

--Mike
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