By Tim Odell
Were you racing your Ferrari 250 against your buddies’ Ferrari 250s at Willow Springs and on Mulholland Dr.? No? We didn’t think so. Jump for a collection of amateur film narrated by Stephen Mitchell about his antics at the age of 19 involving one of the Best Cars of All Time.
Found via The Chicane, which you should definitely be reading. For more, check out Stephen Mitchell’s blog or his writeup on the 250 GTO (his third car) in Sports Car Digest.
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Back then, the only thing Jeremy Clarkson was piloting was a bicycle.
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This is absolutely awesome! I wonder if in 40 years the ubiquitous youtube videos of street racing today will be as classic as this video is? Doubtful. And I agree with Jeff.
I was not born yet. So depending on your religious believes I was either non-existent or I might have been one of drivers in the movie, provided that he passed on before 1972…
In 1969 I was floating around in one of my mom's ovaries. That is definitely not as cool as hooning the piss out of a Ferrari.
These guys were 19-20 years old and raging around in GTOs? Whaaa….
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Wow, what a great video. I was nine or ten at the time, and more into Hot Rod Magazine and drag racing than Ferraris. Amazing. I wonder what he did for a living (or what his parents did) so that he could drive a Ferrari (even back then)? When I heard "Tommy Rettig, I thought, "LASSIE!" I'll bet this guy knew all kinds of Hollywood types.
Too bad Ralph Lauren took the racing lights off of the roof. Talk about destroying a car's originality and distinction.
As a matter of fact, I WAS racing my Ferrari 250 against my buddies Ferrari 250. Of course, they were HO gauge slot cars and it was in his basement….
The only to improve this would be to see Steve McQueen blast past in the XK-SS or the Lusso.
Please insert the word ‘way’ into the correct place above. D’oh!
Thanks for posting this–glad you liked it!
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