Re: Inappropriate use of Jeep name?
 

Geez, a full sized stock '68 Plymouth beat your Enzo Ferrari
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>
> Yeah, in a line that cost Ken Miles the world championship because
> Ford brass made them, in their British Lola built GT40s with Italian
> transaxles, British brakes and German suspension. The next year
> Ferrari was there, where was Ford?
>
> Henry Ford II with ten times the money bought that race. For Ferrari
> racing was everything: for Ford it was a whim to impress his Italian
> wife.
>
> Ford was never a serious player in any form of road racing with any
> US-derived product. They paid Cosworth to build the DFV, and the
> inline fours in US Ford products are derivatives of Brit and German
> engines to this day.
>
> Enzo Ferrari was the greatest racing car constructor in the world. I
> don't know if he ever even set foot in the U.S.
>



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Re: Off Topic Inappropriate use of Jeep name?
 

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x15...n-at-top-speed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQFW_OfWMAE
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"Billzz" <billzzstring@starband.net> wrote in message
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>
> Ow, ow, ow.
>
> I subscribe to this groupo because we are now retired , in the Sierra
> Nevada, with two Jeeps.
>
> But I once owned Jaguars, XK-140 and E-Type and went around Laguna Seca,
and
> was passed, really fast, by Ferraris.
>
> I used to know something about this stuff, and seemed to remember that
Ford
> wanted to buy Ferrari, and Enzio said something really bad ( so bad that I
> have forgotten) but Ford II spent a lot of money (if I remember it was
$250K
> per car, which is nothing today, but big bucks then) and won the race.
>
> Ferrari then invented the 330P4, which beat the Ford cars, and everything
> else.
>
> I remember thinking that I could have purchased a Ford GT40. Well, not
> really, but close. There is a replica for sale, you can look them up.
>
> But a Ferrari 330P4? Absolutely priceless. But Bob Norwood, in Dallas,
> will build a replica for only $350K.
>
> This is a Jeepo groupo, so I spare you all the cites, but the history is
> interesting.
>
>



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Re: Off Topic Inappropriate use of Jeep name?
 

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x15...n-at-top-speed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQFW_OfWMAE
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"Billzz" <billzzstring@starband.net> wrote in message
news:6e9d2$45fcdc9c$9440b19b$895@STARBAND.NET
>
> Ow, ow, ow.
>
> I subscribe to this groupo because we are now retired , in the Sierra
> Nevada, with two Jeeps.
>
> But I once owned Jaguars, XK-140 and E-Type and went around Laguna Seca,
and
> was passed, really fast, by Ferraris.
>
> I used to know something about this stuff, and seemed to remember that
Ford
> wanted to buy Ferrari, and Enzio said something really bad ( so bad that I
> have forgotten) but Ford II spent a lot of money (if I remember it was
$250K
> per car, which is nothing today, but big bucks then) and won the race.
>
> Ferrari then invented the 330P4, which beat the Ford cars, and everything
> else.
>
> I remember thinking that I could have purchased a Ford GT40. Well, not
> really, but close. There is a replica for sale, you can look them up.
>
> But a Ferrari 330P4? Absolutely priceless. But Bob Norwood, in Dallas,
> will build a replica for only $350K.
>
> This is a Jeepo groupo, so I spare you all the cites, but the history is
> interesting.
>
>



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Re: Off Topic Inappropriate use of Jeep name?
 

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x15...n-at-top-speed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQFW_OfWMAE
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"Billzz" <billzzstring@starband.net> wrote in message
news:6e9d2$45fcdc9c$9440b19b$895@STARBAND.NET
>
> Ow, ow, ow.
>
> I subscribe to this groupo because we are now retired , in the Sierra
> Nevada, with two Jeeps.
>
> But I once owned Jaguars, XK-140 and E-Type and went around Laguna Seca,
and
> was passed, really fast, by Ferraris.
>
> I used to know something about this stuff, and seemed to remember that
Ford
> wanted to buy Ferrari, and Enzio said something really bad ( so bad that I
> have forgotten) but Ford II spent a lot of money (if I remember it was
$250K
> per car, which is nothing today, but big bucks then) and won the race.
>
> Ferrari then invented the 330P4, which beat the Ford cars, and everything
> else.
>
> I remember thinking that I could have purchased a Ford GT40. Well, not
> really, but close. There is a replica for sale, you can look them up.
>
> But a Ferrari 330P4? Absolutely priceless. But Bob Norwood, in Dallas,
> will build a replica for only $350K.
>
> This is a Jeepo groupo, so I spare you all the cites, but the history is
> interesting.
>
>



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Re: Inappropriate use of Jeep name?
 

"Billzz" <> wrote
> I subscribe to this groupo because we are now retired , in the Sierra
> Nevada, with two Jeeps.

Where? You want a "heads up" when we take the Class B Lotus to the track?
--
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Re: Inappropriate use of Jeep name?
 

"Billzz" <> wrote
> I subscribe to this groupo because we are now retired , in the Sierra
> Nevada, with two Jeeps.

Where? You want a "heads up" when we take the Class B Lotus to the track?
--
Stupendous Man,
Hathaway Pines, California

Re: Inappropriate use of Jeep name?
 

"Billzz" <> wrote
> I subscribe to this groupo because we are now retired , in the Sierra
> Nevada, with two Jeeps.

Where? You want a "heads up" when we take the Class B Lotus to the track?
--
Stupendous Man,
Hathaway Pines, California

Re: Inappropriate use of Jeep name?
 

Meanwhile, in our universe, Ford took 1,2,3 in the 1966 Lemans, not 1965.

L.W. (Bill) ------ III proclaimed:
> You mean the rest of the world where Ford stomped Ferrari, one, two,
> three in '65 LaMans?
> http://www.nvsaac.com/photogallery/i...ord%20MkII.JPG
> God Bless America, Bill 0|||||||0
> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
>> I doubt he is talking about drag racing, a sport not taken seriously
>>outside the US (I know, Santa Pod and all that....riiiiight), and one
>>for which post-1962 Corvettes with their IRS are poorly suited.
>>
>
>
>
>

Re: Inappropriate use of Jeep name?
 

Meanwhile, in our universe, Ford took 1,2,3 in the 1966 Lemans, not 1965.

L.W. (Bill) ------ III proclaimed:
> You mean the rest of the world where Ford stomped Ferrari, one, two,
> three in '65 LaMans?
> http://www.nvsaac.com/photogallery/i...ord%20MkII.JPG
> God Bless America, Bill 0|||||||0
> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
>> I doubt he is talking about drag racing, a sport not taken seriously
>>outside the US (I know, Santa Pod and all that....riiiiight), and one
>>for which post-1962 Corvettes with their IRS are poorly suited.
>>
>
>
>
>

Re: Inappropriate use of Jeep name?
 

Meanwhile, in our universe, Ford took 1,2,3 in the 1966 Lemans, not 1965.

L.W. (Bill) ------ III proclaimed:
> You mean the rest of the world where Ford stomped Ferrari, one, two,
> three in '65 LaMans?
> http://www.nvsaac.com/photogallery/i...ord%20MkII.JPG
> God Bless America, Bill 0|||||||0
> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
>> I doubt he is talking about drag racing, a sport not taken seriously
>>outside the US (I know, Santa Pod and all that....riiiiight), and one
>>for which post-1962 Corvettes with their IRS are poorly suited.
>>
>
>
>
>