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Forgot to tell you about our Ferrari experience and believe it or not it was not our first time. The first time that is to get a call out regarding a Ferrari that had broken down about 2 miles from our garage. I would love to say it was a great driving experience taking that Ferrari back put on the road on a test drive after getting it started again, but it would be a lie. Because just like the first Ferrari call out we got about 2 years ago, there was strict instructions not to touch the car.

Please take the car away from the roadside and lock it up somewhere safe until it can be picked up and taken to a proper Ferrari specialist, was the message. The experience was an amusing one and to be honest we did look under the hood, to the rear if you know what i mean to see if there was something obviously wrong, as we could not see anything within a few seconds, we closed the hood and pushed the car into a safe spot in the garage.

We never met the owner and even though we took some photos we thought it would be inappropriate to publish them here, so our Ferrari experience ended when another recovery vehicle turned up and winched this 430 on to the back.

I had driven a few Ferraris before on a driving experience day. I can see why someone would want to own such a performance machine, but to be honest even if I could afford one, I would still refrain from owning one. It would be cheaper going to a driving experience once a month, which is just about how much most Ferrari owners get to drive the or cars anyway and never in the way they were designed to be driven, fast on a track.