A Bit Of Trivia That Nobody Cares About

[cabinetman]

Bet ya-all didn't know that Ferrari has their own band. Yes, that's right. It's called "Red House Blues Band", made up of seven Ferrari factory employees. They even have a CD out...lookee here. All the proceeds from the CD go to UNICEF.

[gwyneth]

What do you mean, trivia? Or that nobody cares about?

Anybody who ever owned an Italian car should be interested in this, and some of us have owned several.

[cabinetman]

What do you mean, trivia? Or that nobody cares about?

Anybody who ever owned an Italian car should be interested in this, and some of us have owned several.

You are probably right, but the subject wording got 50 "views" and you did reply. Which Italian cars have you owned/driven?

BTW - If you wanna hear the band .
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[Uncle Cracker]

I was gonna check out the CD, but I assumed I couldn't afford it...

[gerti]

Autobianchi A112... My first car. Fun piece of crap!

[cabinetman]

Autobianchi A112... My first car. Fun piece of crap!

Hey, those were cute. They were like the German version of the Mini Cooper.

[gwyneth]

Four Fiats (with last of which actually rallyed and showroom stock road raced). Drove a couple of Ferraris a few blocks. Bought an Alfa but sale fell through. Moved someone's Maserati at a party.

At a banquet almost 25 years ago I sat next to one of the American drivers whose Alitalia rallye team was world champion-caliber.

"You drove the Alitalia Fiat?" I gasped in awe. "How was it?"

"Fifty grand of engineering," he answered, "and the darned hood hinges broke."

Another happy driver of Italian performance machinery.

Back then I got an early Olivetti memory typewriter (it retained the last 16 characters so it could use the correction tape automatically). It was designed so it could also be a computer printer. However, neither use was possible. Its memory spat out Ps and Rs randomly--not just rendering the original function useless but creating a worse problem that, alas, needed that function.

I was looking at the box of my new Freud router today and realized...it's another Italian machine!

[gwyneth]

Hey, those were cute. They were like the German version of the Mini Cooper.

Don't you mean the NSU?

Speaking of German Mini Coopers, did you read about the rollout of BMW's version a couple of years ago? The idiotic PR firm thought "this celebration needs dwarves". Unfortunately, unbeknownst to party planners, the BMW chairman had a really active dwarf phobia and apparently made quite a scene.