When in Italy... (pic heavy)

"Brodieman" (Brodieman) 07/07/2014 at 13:21 • Filed to: Ferrari, Boxer, Museum, Italy, F1, Kimi, F40, 250, California, Spyder, Daytona, LaFerrari, Formula 1

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...you drive an hour out of the way to go to Maranello and the Ferrari Museum...

(Also, on the way I saw a yellow LaFerrari on the Autostrada, it was glorious. No pics since everyone else in my car was asleep and couldn't snap one for me!)

The museum is a lot smaller than you'll think it's going to be. But still a good value for the $15 euros.

What shocked me most was just how close you can get to these fucking cars! I touched a F40 LM and a 250 California. That's $30mil in cars right there. They had their early F1 cars just sitting around like it was no big deal. Sure there were signs that said "Please do not touch" but there were kids running around smacking eachother and occasionally the cars too. It was a free for all. Incredible.

It didn't have my favorite Ferrari, the 250 GT SWB, but the F40LM, 250 California, 275 GTB, 330P, 333SP, and 512M kinda made up for that.

Also, a Rally group of weekend rich fellows went through the town we were in, I'll have those shots up shortly.

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(Forgive the iPotato pics, didn't bring my good camera, ignore the crappy black dots, there's crud in my lens)

So, on to the pics:

Here I am hiding a massive erection:

Colani is an odd fellow:

The Enzo display was just about the creepiest thing I've seen in a museum:

The F1 Hall:

(Shitty pano from going to fast to beat the stupid people who walked in on the right)

Anyone want to swap one of these into their Miata? They're just laying around all over there to put your grubby hands all over them.

One of my favorites: Kimi's winner

The family china cabinet isn't too bad:

The hat collection is impressive as well:

They had a pre-production LaFerrari in there too. There was a separate room with only glow in the dark strips on the floor and the contours of the car. A spotlight would shine on the car for about a second every minute. If you wanted a shot of the car and didn't have a photobooth's worth of flashbulbs you had to stand there and wait a bit. Very odd.

Wind Tunnel 1/3 scale models:

The most important part of any Ferrari, the official FIAT fire extinguisher, these were all over the place which I found pretty amusing:

And as always, Ferrari being classy, FORZA MICHAEL!

EL_ULY > Brodieman 07/07/2014 at 13:24

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duuuuuuuuuude INCREDIBLE!!!!!! it is on all of our bucket lists! Gallons upon gallons of Jelly!!!!

thebigbossyboss > Brodieman 07/07/2014 at 13:29

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Coooooool.

YSI-what can brown do for you > Brodieman 07/07/2014 at 13:39

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FANTASTIC! I have to go, some day, one day!

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Brodieman 07/07/2014 at 13:42

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Good luck parking this one.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Brodieman 07/07/2014 at 13:44

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Fantastic - thanks for sharing all this.

McLarry > Brodieman 07/07/2014 at 15:53

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Just went there a couple months ago on vacation, I was a little smaller than I expected, but the hall of champions was way cool (even for a McLaren fan :P). You should hop over to Lamborghini and Pagani while you're nearby!

Brodieman > McLarry 07/07/2014 at 18:50

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I was on limited time in Italy (home now), plus we were staying way up north and that was just about the only thing I could go do. Would have loved to see the Pagani shop.

McLarry > Brodieman 07/07/2014 at 22:38

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Apparently you have to call pretty far in advance to get a tour at Pagani...when I called they said they were booked for 2 weeks. I asked if there was anything we could see without booking a tour, and they said "well, you could just see the showroom if you want" - excellent! There were only 2 cars in the showroom, but they were a Huayra and a Zonda Cinque Roadster, so still worth a visit if you're in town again.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > Brodieman 07/08/2014 at 13:43

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Interesting, I didn't know that Ferrari actually did development on a CART chassis. I vaguely remember hearing about them threatening to leave F1 for CART but didn't know how far they went with that. According to Wikipedia it was a pretty well developed chassis considering its purpose was simply to threaten F1.

Brodieman > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 07/08/2014 at 18:39

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Yep, the actual car is there too, it's pictured earlier in the post after the 1951 166 F2 car. If you go full size on the pic you can read the story of Enzo's threat on the plaque in front of it.