Just saw on Discovery Channel yesterday a program called the Fith Gear
presented by some ex-Top Gear guys.
Tiff Needell and Vicky Butler-Henderson are the most known persons.
They showed a movie of a British man, who bought a brand news real nice
model sports Maserati.
In fact it looks like a La Mans racer.
He wanted to have a fast drive on the racing track.
Snow was all around and yes - he lost track and damaged the left hand side
of the car on its first drive.
Car still was drivable, so he went home (on the normal snowy roads with all
risks of more damage...)
Cheers,
Hans
"'71 BGT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Max Heim" <max_heim@sbcglobal.net>
To: "MG List" <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 1:19 AM
Subject: Re: Y I K E S !
> At least he's still alive...
>
> There is an oft-told story here in Silicon Valley about the entrepeneur
> who
> cashed in his IPO and went straight from the celebration to Ferrari of Los
> Gatos, bought a new mid-engined Ferrari, and took off up Highway 9 (an
> extremely twisty 2-lane road beginning in downtown Los Gatos heading up
> into
> the Santa Cruz Mountains).
>
> I don't know if this guy even made it 9 miles (the first hairpin
> turn/narrow
> bridge combination is within 2 miles). At any rate, the story goes that he
> spun off the road and was killed (totalling the car, of course).
>
> This one is so obvious as a morality tale that one is tempted to think it
> is
> an urban legend. But everyone around here believes it's true, for what
> it's
> worth.
>
>
> --
>
> Max Heim
> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
> If you're near Mountain View, CA,
> it's the primer red one with chrome wires
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