[from Chris Kantarjiev]
>You know, some of those folks with multi-million dollar cars have had
>them forever - got them when they were "worthless old race cars". David
>Love, for example, dirves the #9 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa. The general
>market price of that car is about $2.5 million, but he bought it out
>of a tree (really) at the Corkscrew at Laguna Seca. Somewhere in
>the mid70s, he broke a crank and complained that it cost him more to
>replace the crank, $10000, than he paid for the car.
>
>He drives that thing *hard*. I don't think his budget is what you think it is
I recall watching a 250TR (perhaps it was David Love) at one of
our Open Track events about 10 years ago, loading this million dollar
car on a single axle open trailer, pulled behind a mini pickup.
Should of had a camera...in my naiveity, i enquired about the
value of the car. He replied, "I don't really know, I paid $5000
for it in the '60s" I don't think the *value* really mattered much
to him.
PS How do you *budget* for a $10,000 crank...;-)
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