Vanity - Red cars and glorious sounds

https://youtu.be/1_kwxzU4wL4 ^

[West Texas Chuck]

Yeah, OK, it's a gasoline commercial, but the video is in HD and the sound is spine-tingling. Turn it up.

[West Texas Chuck]

I listen to this local radio show done by a former dealer. This time of year he always hypes this car show over in Farmer's Branch, I've never been until yesterday. Sam Pack owns several Ford dealerships and a mighty car collection, housed in a museum only open to the public one day a year. Saw some beautiful stuff, and some historic cars that make my head spin. Real GT-40s and Shelby Cobras and a ton of other cool old iron.

The guy with the radio show has a website, CarProShow.com, where he does reviews and posts oddball automotive items. He put up this 2 minute commercial showing Ferrari race cars from across the ages running free around several venues. I've always been tifosi but I quit watching F1 after Senna was killed. To watch this video with my stereo on volume 50 drives my wife nuts, but it gives me goosebumps. I love the sound of those race cars, they sound like wild animals on full gallup.

This vid being only 2 minutes just wet my appetite, so I pulled an old favorite down off the shelf, Grand Prix and popped the top on a Stone Ruination to enhance the thrill. Have not seen that film in a while, parts of it do the sounds of old race cards true justice.

[Gay State Conservative]

Having visited Manhattan many times,and Rome,Hong Kong and Rio more than once I'm wondering if this was all CGI or did a Ferrari really careen around the streets of each city?

[Chode]

very cool

[corkoman]

Nice! Screamers! Love the last location Monte Carlo. Thats a ridiculous place for a Grand Prix race - but they manage!

[West Texas Chuck]

It sure looks real. Don’t know how they pulled that off, but I like the woman in the restaurant in China when the car goes by.

[Fresh Wind]

Yeah, but what about the carbon footprint of those cars? /s

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thanks for posting. I just put YouTube on the big Panny to watch and listen. That is AWESOME!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Formula E for you, pal. From here to eternity.

[PLMerite]

Many years ago my father helped me make a car for the Cub Scout Pinewood Derby (little gravity-powered models) that looked just like the first car in this ad. It's "exhaust" was part of a white coat hanger. I think he did more of the actual work than I did.

He himself used to race midgets waaay back in the 40s.

This is not him, but you get the idea.

[smokingfrog]

http://youtu.be/5SoZiTxdQyw

[Rastus]

I live near the guy with the website you mentioned. I see him walking his dog all the time. LMAO.

[nascarnation]

Wow that was an era when “safety equipment” was a misnomer.

[smoothsailing]

Thanks for posting, that was fun!

[MtnClimber]

Nice! All F1 cars.

[alloysteel]

Safety equipment is for wusses.

I took almost that many chances on a Ford 8N farm tractor when I was twelve years old. And they could achieve a top speed of about 25 mph (with the Sherman Step-Up transmission).

Nothing like a load of hay bales pushing you downhill on a road covered with loose gravel. Just steer through....

[nascarnation]

So many of the stud drivers of that era were killed or maimed as “go fast” technology outpaced safety technology.

It’s kind of depressing to read the history.

[Excellence]

Eat your heart out Jeremy Clarkson.

[West Texas Chuck]

Wow, thank you for that! Appears to be Mansell’s car, and the track is Monza.

F all this turbo crap they run now, give me the v12s.

[West Texas Chuck]

LOL

[PLMerite]

Eventually they had “razorback” ridges that came up to head level as roll protection. Other than that, it was helmets and safety harnesses.