Last weekend I enjoyed a Ferrari 308 GTBi QV from the Classic Car Club.
I had forgotten how far cars had come in such a short space of time. Despite the fuel injection, starting and warming up is very much up to the skill of the driver. It’s quite possible to get a bang from unburnt fuel igniting in the exhaust as you start the car. I think at one point SWMBO thought I had blown up the engine!
And what an engine it is! 3.0 v8 with a full 7,700rpm on tap. It has that beautiful Ferrari v8 howl as the revs rise. It’s actually not massively quick by today’s standards, but the noise, ah, that noise!
I had forgotten how far cars had come in such a short space of time. Despite the fuel injection, starting and warming up is very much up to the skill of the driver. It’s quite possible to get a bang from unburnt fuel igniting in the exhaust as you start the car. I think at one point SWMBO thought I had blown up the engine!
And what an engine it is! 3.0 v8 with a full 7,700rpm on tap. It has that beautiful Ferrari v8 howl as the revs rise. It’s actually not massively quick by today’s standards, but the noise, ah, that noise!
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