I should have become a Ferrari mechanic instead of a lowly software
developer!
Gordon Glasgow
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From: datsun-roadsters-bounces@autox.team.net
[mailto:datsun-roadsters-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Tom
Hendricksen
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 9:14 PM
To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Roadsters] Wanted: Austin Healey Mark III
In 1969 I took my 68 2 Liter roadster to Ron Tonkin Gran Tourisimo on
Burnside in downtown Portland, Oregon and looked at a beautiful red '64
Ferrari convertible they had imported. They imported Ferrari's to avoid the
federal laws coming into effect. This one was red with a natural interior
and Borani wheels. It was priced at $4,000, AND according to the
information letter on the window it was the one and only Ferrari built for
the street using a fiberglass body. I stood by the car for about an hour
trying to convince myself I should buy it. I could afford to trade my
roadster and buy the car, but a clutch was $500 on the work bench at the
import specialty and Lotus dealer near my home. A tune-up was about $350,
which I learned when Todd Webb and his nationally recognized Porsche race
team could not tune up a Ferrari he was loaned and he had to pay Ron Tonkin
to tune it up for him, and of course there was the insurance thing as well
as trying to get my mother's car out of the garage so I could put a Ferrari
in it. I finally walked away without the car. Today Ron Tonkin still owns
the car. I have been told it is in his warehouse. The service manager for
Ferrari here in Las Vegas told me that Tonkin is now the importer, and I
have seen an F1 car being unloaded from a cargo van near his warehouse. Oh,
and that clutch today? About $3500 sitting on the work bench. A
tune-up/service will set you back something North of $1.00/mile driven if
serviced at recommended intervals.
Tom
69 2000 - Mr. Hyde
Las Vegas
http://www.datsun2000.com
http://www.nowroc.org
On 12/28/2012 4:37 PM, Pete Peters wrote:
> Ahhhhh, memories. I found a '68 'Vette for $1500, but the insurance
> for a single, under 21 sailor was $3000. Ended up w/ a '72 El Camino.
>
> Even more important, in '73, before the Great Oil Embargo, gas was
> still less than fifty-cents a gallon!
>
> Pete
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: datsun-roadsters-bounces@autox.team.net
> [mailto:datsun-roadsters-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Mark J
> Bradakis
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 2:55 PM
> To: datsun
> Subject: Re: [Roadsters] Wanted: Austin Healey Mark III
>
> Years ago my father shipped my old train set out to me here in Utah.
> He wrapped up the bits in sections of the Indianapolis Star newspaper.
> Here's some examples of what was in the automotive classifieds back in
1973:
>
>
> '67 Chevelle, 396, 4 spd. $950
>
> '67 Corvette conv. air, power windows, 427, $2,300
>
> Ferrari, 1959 250 GT, 12 cyl. 2 passenger, excel. cond. $4,950
>
> '53 Jag XK120 show car, $3,395
>
> '64 MGB New red paint, new top, luggage rack, very fast, $1,000
>
> '59 MGA, engine good, body needs work $500
>
> '58 Porsche, runs good, $850
>
> '60 Triumph, 4 spd., looks, runs perfect $300
>
> '64 TR4 wire wheels, new paint, tires, $750
>
> '64 TR4 Rebuilt, mech. perfect, new tires, no rust $850
>
> '56 Morgan Plus 4, excel. orig. condition, $3,500
>
>
> mjb
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