Ha... I don't have your artistic license... Everytime I picture "modern liberal academics" I get this... Which as we all know was a stolen Fiat design...
Henry Ford II was always impressed with italian cars and women He tried to buy Ferrari and failed So he spent as much as it took to beat Ferrari instead
Actually, it wasn't stolen at all. Fiat sold the tooling for the 124 to the Russians who built an entire plant and a city called Togliattigrad to make it. They sold it in export markets throughout the 1970's. They were also made in Poland, and exported as PolskiFiats.
And a Sexy beast that was. It is sad though, that we have to reach all the way back to the 60s to find a time when the US was still actually dominating the world of automotive design and performance. I was recently reminded that in 1958 the world's fastest car was a Chrysler. And that Chrysler retained that for several years into the 1960s.
Have you been to rhe Chaparrel museum in Midland Texas? All the Chaparrels ever made except for the original front engine car are there Including the 1980 Indy winner
I have not. But thanks for bringing up a storied racing brand. The time of kills you if you blink days of race cars... I am also a huge fan of period Porsches. The 917 was epic.
Ironic! In '67 I was driving a VW bug and my wife worked with a gal whose husband was a Porsche sales rep. He told his wife to tell my wife to tell me he would give me a 'deal' on a Porsche. I was in his dealership the next day. Come to find out when I asked him what the deal was he said "I can get one for you now". I kept that VW for several more years. It took me a while but I did get an '87 Carrera Cabriolet.
I had a 427 side-oiler "hi-rise" w/ a Borg-Warner Top Loader behind it in a 1966 Fairlane for 3 weeks, I accepted as temporary collateral for a gambling debt from an acquaintance, in around 1975 or so. Didn't corner worth a crap....but, from Point A to Point B...I was King of the Stoplights in St.Louis County for those three weeks. It would SLAM me back into the driver's seat. I loved it, and hated giving it back...
She's still a beauty and the Ferrari name is world renowned. Don't let partizanship control you mind.
S-o-o-o sad! All that money could have been used to help those poor chil-l-l-dren down on the border instead of wasting it on a useless, smog producing hunk of metal.
Yup. I just love the idea that you had so much fun in cars back then. Performance... sure. but comfort doing it. The luxury of having both seems a lost art in today's US cars.
Perhaps you can get the democrat who is selling it to donate his proceeds. You could demand it, and hold your breath....
Nice. I regularly school guys in hellcats on the track. If only they could turn... and get power down... and were convertibles...... Nice fun car though. And super soundtrack at full RPMs..
A true beauty. And for a change, it drove Ferrari to respond as it introduced the mid engine design. The 68 612s CanAms..
