Exotic cars for kids’ sake
Viva Italia show attracts fans, donations to Children’s Guild
Conspicuous consumption may be down because of the economy, but at the Viva Italia car show in Harbor East Sunday it was far from out. On display were quarter-of-a-million-dollar Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Maseratis and other Italian marquee cars painted in bright yellow and bright red, and in the case of a 1936 Fiat Topolino, flames.
The show was the fifth annual event in support of the Children’s Guild, a nonprofit group that aids kids with …Â Details
A Ferrari worth 3 million kronor ($434,000) was left nursing a crumpled front end after a hapless Swedish motor vehicle inspection driver took it for an impromptu spin.
The Ferrari F40 had been recently imported into Sweden by Von Braun Sports Cars in Skene in southern Sweden and was duly subjected to a routine registration inspection in nearby Kinna on Thursday.
But when the state-owned Swedish Motor Vehicle Inspection Company (Bilprovningen) driver sat behind the wheel …Â Details
Franck Montagny and Stephane Sarrazin were leading the Petit Le Mans race when the red flag was given to the field due to a thunderstorm located over the metropolitan Atlanta area, including the Road Atlanta 2.540 mile road course. The American Le Mans Series officials did not call the 1,000 mile or 10 hour race at that time, hoping that the rain would clear out but the weather cells on radar showed the slow movement of the latest storm to hit the state of Georgia in the past week.
“We won the 24 Hours of Le Mans and now we have won the Petit Le Mans five hours,” smiled Montagny. “It is a too bad about the rain, we were…Â Details
Video Automobile Sports Car Vintage – Ferrari 250TR crash at the 2009 Monterey Historics – Two Ferrari Testa Rosas spin out and crash (on two consecutive laps!) of the 2009 Rolex Monterey Historic races, August 15, 2009, at turns 8/8A “corkscrew” of the Laguna Seca racetrack. Fortunately…