Every day tips for living with a 599

[Hughesie]

cake eater said:

Hughesie said:

If i sell or chop it in i have to admit the depreciation and costs of keeping it, i cant do that, I'll have a heart attack i think !

Its a keeper and i can only add to it !

I just close my eyes and pretend I'm investing I'm my future.

I think mine will be worth something again when my lad is my age circa 25 years time maybe

[928 GTS]

Not exactly 599 related but as there was talk earlier about driving in northern Europe. Was looking for latest info about Via Baltica and this video has current status all in one place. As expected Poland is almost all done to motorway level. Three Baltic countries not so much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n2pH5J1y24

[cake eater]

928 GTS said:

Not exactly 599 related but as there was talk earlier about driving in northern Europe. Was looking for latest info about Via Baltica and this video has current status all in one place. As expected Poland is almost all done to motorway level. Three Baltic countries not so much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n2pH5J1y24

Properly geeky video

Baltic states definitely on my to do list.

[White-Noise]

Cap arrived this week, just over 4 months still, in time for this weekend

[SarlechS]

Hughesie said:

What's everyone else up to ?

We're off to Italy in September for a road trip/wedding, which coincides with the 20th anniversary of the 599 so obligatory pit stop at its birthplace and factory tour will be weaved in !

15 nights all in:
Folkstone
Montrachet
St Moritz
St Moritz
Selva
Villa sandi - Prosecco region
Modena
Rimmini
Rimmini
Wedding - Rome
Wedding - Rome
Wedding - Rome
Como
Reims
Home

couple of big slogs there, Montrachet to St Mortiz and Como to Reims!

Looks epic!

[Hughesie]

SarlechS said:

couple of big slogs there, Montrachet to St Mortiz and Como to Reims!

Looks epic!

Yeah, we've done them before, but its a big GT, its what the car was built for and still getting out refreshed afterwards

[urquattroGus]

Biased but I would have loved it if the Maserati Gransport made the cut for the first batch.

It was revied highly by them at the time, 4.5 stars or was it 5?

[Hughesie]

MOT Passed, no advisories, Woo Hoo !

[Hughesie]

Dropped off for a service this morning with Autofficina ahead of our mega euro trip, its a big service so hoping for no additional costs, also having the wheels tidied up

[DeejRC]

Jealous Hughes…proper GT hauling

[Hughesie]

I have returned, what a trip, 3800 miles of joy in the 599,just over 720 miles done in a day from Rome to Burgundy and made it for an early dinner in 10 hours with 2 fuel stops and breakfast and dinner included, such a machine !.

Up before the sparrows at Le Shuttle


Quick blast to Reims, obvs.


Off to Montrachet for our 1st overnight stop.



Then off to St Moritz for a few days RnR, then over to Vale Gardena via a few passes flipping between a few borders.




From VG we headed down through to Valdobbiadene for an overnight in the Prosecco valley before we headed down to Maranello.




Lunch at Montana, then the Ferrari Museo, Overnight at the Maranello Palace then the Enzo Museum the next day along with Factory tour.

Hy-Kers 599


Short hop to Riccione on the Rimini coast for a few days of Beach before a slog to Rome for a 3 day wedding, then back up to Burgundy.

Mega trip and the car performed faultlessly the whole trip from chasing bikers over passes to some very high speed cruising along the way.

Can't wait to do it all again next year !

Hughesie

[DeejRC]

Loving, absolutely loving, travel bear !!

[robj4]

Looks amazing, great pics!

[Hughesie]

DeejRC said:

Loving, absolutely loving, travel bear !!

Thats Mrs Ted, a VERY famous PH'er !

[willy wombat]

We don t have a Mrs Ted but we do have a Menzo.

[Thom]

Hughesie said:

Short hop to Riccione on the Rimini coast

Did you not stop by Fabio Fiammenghi, in Gambellara? I visited him last year...

Edited by Thom on Tuesday 30th September 16:22

[Hughesie]

Thom said:

Did you not stop by Fabio Fiammenghi, in Gambellara? I visited him last year...

Edited by Thom on Tuesday 30th September 16:22

We should have if we had time between Valdobbiadene and Modena but timings didn't work

Also, my car is already super loud, when we were at the factory a tech/Ferrari bod shouted that's not std and came over for a chat !

Edited by Hughesie on Tuesday 30th September 16:38

[White-Noise]

Anyone in touch with cake eater? He'd been quite active on this thread but not posted since June, hope he is ok.

[Hughesie]

White-Noise said:

Anyone in touch with cake eater? He'd been quite active on this thread but not posted since June, hope he is ok.

Seen him posting on F-Chat so he is alive

[White-Noise]

Hughesie said:

White-Noise said:

Anyone in touch with cake eater? He'd been quite active on this thread but not posted since June, hope he is ok.

Seen him posting on F-Chat so he is alive

Thanks phew!