British Sportscar Center wrote:
> The "Ferrari" used in Ferris Bueller's Day Off was actually a re-bodied
> Corvette. A fiberglass specialist named Tom McBurnie made the body in an old
> building on Santa Barbara airport, from which he moved to set up production
> elsewhere in SoCal - until he was threatened with a sizeable lawsuit by
> Ferrari for making too good a copy of their car without their permission.
There's nothing hated more in the Ferrari owner community than a Ferrari
copy (except perhaps a Porsche). I think it is because of how long it took
and how much work it took for us to actually afford the real thing.
Rick Lindsay
'79 Ferrari 308GTB
'79 MGB
'70 MGB-GT
'59 Lancia Appia
oh, and a couple of other boring cars...
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