"Dean Dark" wrote in message
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On Sat, 21 May 2005 21:58:50 +0100, "R.N. Robinson"
wrote:

we noticed that a very beautiful 250 GTO Ferrari was being loaded
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Is there some other kind of 250 GTO? You lucky beggar, I've never
even seen one.

Yes, there aren't that many about. You have set me thinking though - at
first I thought that some rich American had bought it over here and was
shipping it back to the USA, except he would have done that by cargo jet,
not a Virgin Atlantic passenger job. So I have put two and two together
along these lines: the next weekend saw a series of invitation races for
historic cars at Laguna Seca (about 2 hours south of San Francisco) and I'm
pretty sure that Nick Mason (ex Pink Floyd, or so my sons tell me ;-)) owns
a 250GTO and also races it in events like that. What I think we saw was
Branson doing a favour for an old mate. Well, I like to think so anyway...

Ron Robinson