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Old 07-30-2004, 02:15 PM   #1
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Default Exotics day! Ferrari / Pagani showroom (F40,Zonda,355,360...

ALL THE PICS ARE CLICKABLE FOR 1600X1200. I hope there was no typo. if some of them aren't working please let me know

Well, what a day today I woke up, quickly checked JW and off I was on the highway toward Geneva My mission: to visit two showrooms in a marvellous combo Ferrari and Pagani in the first one, Lamborghini in the second! Such mission simply can't go wrong

I decided to split the pics in two topics since they are around 130

First off the Ferrari/Pagani one. It wasn't easy to find Mouse told me it is close to the Lambo one.. yes it is, but not on the main road and I found it by mistake while trying to turn around to come back to the Lambo one

It was pretty small as you will see in the pics, and pretty crowded with exotics. not bad at all, but not easy to take pics of course.
The guy inside as always was very polite and was almost surprised when I asked if I could take pics the answer was a yes, so I could start working around those cars
Again, very smart move to take the tripod with me: impossible to take good pics inside dealerships w/o it...
Only downside, as you will see, all the pics from the back of the cars show some sort of 2'000'0000'0000'000 KW light coming from outside.. like if there is a nuclear testing ground or something right on the other side of the road... not my fault obviously, but many pics are pretty crappy despite the tripod just because of the damn light very hard especially for the two Zondas... oh well enough ranting now, let's start with the pics!

the lineup, beside the two Zondas and the F40 wasn't THAT impressive, but there was the Ferrari of my dreams!! (second only to a 360CS in the same color scheme): this marvellous 355 blue outside and tan/tobacco or whatever it is called, inside!!!!!! Too sweet!






And another 355 red this time and F1






Next to them, probably the most common Ferrari red 360











Also a grey Spider



And here is the beauty I usually don't love pics where you can't see the whole car, but beeing that cramped, I had to forget this personal rule of mine






Not many V12 around.. just these 550-575 duo: never seen a dark green 550 before!





Now, if I my memory serves me well, this was a 330 cabriolet, wasn't it? Sadly I suck at vintage cars


And I'm really clueless about this one:


Ok enough Ferrari time for a couple of Zondas. As you can see, almost impossible to take a nice picture of the whole car
BTW, for a moment I was hoping this one was a bare carbon one sadly not...






And the yellow one






They weren't my first Zondas, but it's an impressive sight nonetheless!

That's it. In some of the pics you can see there is another part of the showroom, pretty dark.. there were some more cars, a couple of 308 and 328 and various other brands, but since all the lights were turned off, I preferred not to ask, and anyway the cars were even closer in there
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Old 07-30-2004, 02:16 PM   #2
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OMFG .... First reply !

Congrats ... very nice pics !

And the settings of your digi are perfect ... photos are very 'clean' and 'net' !
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Old 07-30-2004, 02:18 PM   #3
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Holy God.........an f40 would have been good enough for me..........but TWO Zondas including a roadster!!!!!!!!!........OMG that is one of the best sightings of all time
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Old 07-30-2004, 02:21 PM   #4
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fuck me! I'm still waiting to see a damn Zonda in person.
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Old 07-30-2004, 02:22 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by T-Bird
fuck me! I'm still waiting to see a damn Zonda in person.
You are not alone dude ...
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Old 07-30-2004, 02:28 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by nurbrun
Holy God.........an f40 would have been good enough for me..........but TWO Zondas including a roadster!!!!!!!!!........OMG that is one of the best sightings of all time
I have to admit I wasn't aware the Roadster already hit the road, but apparently yes LOL.
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Old 07-30-2004, 02:52 PM   #7
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The black Zonda and red F40 just made my day. Truely breathtaking! 8)
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Old 07-30-2004, 03:26 PM   #8
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Old 07-30-2004, 03:36 PM   #9
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Being a Zonda fan, this is heaven!


Thx 8)
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Old 07-30-2004, 03:38 PM   #10
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By the way, what's the dealer's name?
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Old 07-30-2004, 04:11 PM   #11
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Totally cool pics dude.the zondas are awesome and in yellow its just as good as i thought,the F40 once again is a great sight to see.
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Great pics TT... i saved them all

I didn't know they had built the production Zonda Roadsters... and now one is for sale second hand :shock:
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I Think the unidentified classic roadster is a Jaguar XK120 or XK140...though I'm almost sure it's the former.

(this one in case you weren't sure which one it was to which I am referring: http://www.jabbasworld.net/photopost...3ferrr-med.jpg)
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Originally Posted by thenumber1
Great pics TT... i saved them all

I didn't know they had built the production Zonda Roadsters... and now one is for sale second hand :shock:

Maybe second hand, but maybe not. Dealers order them from the Makers and sell them on the lot. So far, as far as i know. Three roadsters are made. Yellow one, silver one and red one.
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kewl pics !!!
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