212 Export Vignale Coupe by 275gtb6c

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Wax, the first thing I noticed when I saw the car's engine was this "car saver" battery, but it turns out a quality product in a not really vintage look, although it is kind of black. But at this moment I am not really concerned about judges and concourses. I need to drive a lot with it, just to get used to the little car. You should have seen my wife sitting next to me (at the regular driving position) when I entered the highway between two uge trucks...Missed one arm to make the picture, as I was all over the car to get it going.

And Harry, hope to see you before the MM....You never know, we live in a small coutry. I keep you all posted with the progress.......
ciao

Well noticed Peter! This plague has been with the car for as long there are pictures of it. It was on a picture from 1957. Strange as this is a US car and delivered from new and never left the country (well till 1990's). Any info is welcome.

9-12-2008

After gathering all the relevant ino, including the Fiva card, we signed up (together with an Italian friend, so we understood the great english website....(italian all over) and went over 9 forms with details of the car, history, us and finance.....

And then they (organisation) called us that we were the first and we have to do it all over again in 2 weeks as the costs were based on last year.

Great! So we will do this again and bring 0128E to Italy, after 58 years. (it never went back according to the records).

It was funny, but took us 2 hours to complete these 9 forms and was fully prepaired (requested pictures and scans).
It is said that there were not many Ferrari's in the MM last year because the registration is only possible through the internet...and you must read Italian and provide a huge pile of info....but than again the Bugatti's/Fiat's/Mercedes etc had the same problem....Are Ferrari owners lazy, stubborn or not very smart ???  

a picture from the 50's....Elckart Lake Road America 500 1957, I think the copyright is from me, as I own the picture..(but did not take it as I was not born yet)

I got a lot historic pictures with the car but the above picture is published in "ferrari by vignale" and (thus?) copyrighted by marcel massini....