Alba, Italy, Saturday lunchtime

Alba, Italy, Saturday lunchtime

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230TE

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2,506 posts

187 months

Thursday 22nd September 2011
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On holiday last weekend, Mrs 230TE and I were wandering around the centre of Alba and starting to think about lunch. We saw what looked like a few interesting cars in a large square and went to have a closer look. Here's what we found.



Square was pretty deserted as everyone was at lunch (this is Italy, so what else would you expect?) Most of the cars were Ferraris, with a few other makes thrown in.



I certainly wasn't expecting to see an FXX in the wild.



One of two 512 Testarossas that were there.



Beautiful 250GT Coupe, alongside a Mercedes 500K in a rather tarty shade of red.



250GT engine. Want, badly.



Bit of research suggests that this is an Alfa 8C-35, ex Scuderia Ferrari. But someone will no doubt correct me if I am wrong. Very beautiful anyway.



Big touring Bugatti.



Immaculate gullwing Merc.





Now this I liked. 430 Scuderia. So hard, it makes a standard F430 look like a girlie shopping car.



Lucky, lucky child.


AndrewIC

559 posts

169 months

Thursday 22nd September 2011
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What a lovely surprise, hope you enjoyed lunch with such a good view.

I don't think that is an FXX, looks like an Enzo.

230TE

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2,506 posts

187 months

Thursday 22nd September 2011
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AndrewIC said:
What a lovely surprise, hope you enjoyed lunch with such a good view.

I don't think that is an FXX, looks like an Enzo.
I'm not an expert on hyper-expensive Ferraris, sadly, so I was going by the 'FXX' badge on the front.

So what we have here is the $1 million equivalent of sticking a 'Turbo' badge on the back of a Nissan Micra 1.0.

silly

And we ended up running out of time for lunch, too busy looking at cars...

Davey S2

13,097 posts

255 months

Thursday 22nd September 2011
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Looks like a standard Enzo with stick on bits to me. FXX is not road legal.

Why would you do that if you owned an Enzo?

Vocal Minority

8,582 posts

153 months

Thursday 22nd September 2011
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230TE said:
Bit of research suggests that this is an Alfa 8C-35, ex Scuderia Ferrari. But someone will no doubt correct me if I am wrong. Very beautiful anyway.
Nope, spot on that man.


Goldmember1

366 posts

173 months

Thursday 22nd September 2011
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Thank you for posting these pics 230TE clap

mightymouse

1,438 posts

229 months

Thursday 22nd September 2011
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Goldmember1 said:
Thank you for posting these pics 230TE clap
Yes very nice...........love the kids seat in the 430 laugh