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

While we are on the subject of airlines, a few weeks ago we were flying to
San Francisco and glancing down at the plane on our way to the gate at
Heathrow we noticed that a very beautiful 250 GTO Ferrari was being loaded
into its hold. Not sure how much it cost to fly it a third of the way
round
the world, but compared with the Jumbo it looked very small!

I would guess compared with the cost of the car, the transportation
fee to fly it around the world would be a mere pocket change!

When my Uncle's family moved from Hong Kong, they wanted to ship their
Audi back to the UK. They found out that it was only slightly more
expensive to have it delivered by air than to ship it by sea. I can't
remember the actual costs now though.


Interesting, and in this case when you think of the combination of Italian
aluminium and sea water I would reckon any extra cost would be well worth it
;-)

Ron Robinson

Dean Dark ) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

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.

I have. They've massively over-rated, visually. The GTO is really quite -
ummm - purposeful looking (and, yes, you can read that as a euphemism for
ugly), especially compared to a 250SWB, TdF or Lusso.

Now, the 250SWB I saw round here a few months back, sat next to an F40 at
traffic lights... And, yes, they did go for it when the lights changed. The
F40 was fishtailing slightly as he floored it - in the dry.

"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