Archive for June, 2012
Parking can be such a pain
Reverse parking is one of the trickiest manouvres for anybody, some just can’t do it, like this driver.
Yet for some it’s just a breeze.
One of these set a new Guinness Book of Records parallel parking distance. Guess which one!!
The F-word in fashion, making millions.
The F-word we’re referring to is “Ferrari”.
Somehow World financial crises and confidence worries have by-passed the Ferrari name.
A new World record for a sale of a car was set last month for this Ferrari 250 GTO built in 1952 for Sir Stirling Moss. It is reported to have been sold for a massive $35 million dollars. That eclipses the previous record that was held by a Bugatti Atlantic (though unsubstantiated).
But this is only a follower of fashion with some remarkable sales of Ferraris reported over the last few months.
A Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa was sold a couple of months ago for $25m., then another 250 GTO (rather common aren’t they?) sold for a price approaching $30m. Apparently around eight classic and collectable Ferraris have sold over the last few weeks for around $135 million. GFC-what GFC?
The new World record holder, an American by the name of Craig McCaw, can seemingly afford it. He was the co-founder of McCaw Cellular that was sold for $US11.5 billion nearly 20 years ago. So the interest on that alone would have probably bought him his car 100 times over.
OK, OK, perhaps the pic we chose for the story doesn’t do justice to $35m. We didn’t cheat, it is an actual picture of the car, but the buyer may prefer the one below? Even so, would you part with that much money for it?
Candid Camera View Of Police Bogged Down
Police are avid users of cameras, but here’s some camera evidence in reverse!
A police car got bogged down in a Sydney sand dune some little while ago, and the driver had some trouble getting extracated, despite plenty of help from the public (and that wouldn’t happen in many places in the World).
But one member of the public had a video camera that recorded the event for posterity and police red faces.
Gotta say though, that though the cops were aware of filming, they took it in good heart- good on ’em!
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