Originally Posted by
John Z Goriup
At last weekends CSRG season-opening charity event, the late David Love's ( co-founder of CSRG ) '58 Ferrari 250 TR was displayed in solitary, majestic splendor. One of 21 Testa Rossas produced (19 customer cars, 2 factory racers ) it embodies completely the very essence of the large, fast, sports cars of the classic post-war period built without compromise and by hand to win LeMans and the other major endurance races.
A few feet away, a fat, obnoxious, grossly arrogant, old one-percenter was enjoying his 15 minutes of fame amid the mindless adulation of the drooling and texting unwashed over his brand-new FF Ferrari that he had just picked up at Ferrari of San Francisco that morning and condescendingly announced that "I thought the spectators wanted to see it, since it's the first FF sold in Northern California".
The difference between the classic sports racer with impeccable provenance vs. the current, flashy, plasticky, 4-wheel drive, robotically built SUV coudn't have been more dramatic and telling about the state of sports cars in general today.
JZG