Greg you lucky bastard...!
 

Monaco...that is on my bucketlist of things to do before I die!

Keep them pictures coming man...:hail:

Just spent 2 hours in an F430.... drove to Nice - on the "high road" and back then south(?) of Monaco on the "middle road"... then back on some little windy roads thru a couple villages... The deal came with an instructor/tour guide - and the SOB NEVER shut up! But in the end I had a nice time and without him I'd never have gotten the tour that I got. Have an hour and a half video but it's relatively poor quality and needs editing to shorten it. I'm not going to spend time now to do that just to share with you buttheads. :unibrow:

Nice car - torquier than I expected - and quite light and lively compared to the teutonic R8. Sadly - it's raining here so not much spirited driving. But it beat going to work! (sorry - had to toss that grenade in there!) It does make me want a 458 though! I love the looks of them! They're EVERYWHERE here. Not a single R8! But I don't think the French and the Italians like the Germans anyway.

The driver instructor did tell me that there are SEVEN Bugatti Veyrons in Monaco! And that all that have them are "idiots".... "who would buy such a car"... he says in typical french accented english with gestures and much disdain.

I don't know if the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup is being shown on television... but it's fun to watch these Porsches run! They're very competitive... and sound great!

Note the side loaded rear tires on this one.... Sadly he smacked the wall in the tunnel (IIRC) and tore a wheel and tire off! It went bouncing wildly down the track -- going 25 or 30 feet high a couple times... yikes!



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I think one of my other customers business partner's did the same thing a few weeks ago while in Monaco. Was the car rental place next a perfume factory. They went to go tour the factory with his wife and wound up at the dealer test driving a 430 for 2 hours around town with an instructor.

Small world

Robin Leach would be proud
 

I feel like I am watching the "Lifestyle's of the Rich and Famous "

Oh wait....I am..

Greg, PM me when you get my Adoption application...

A vicious FAILED pass attempt by the uphill Porsche... coming downhill into the hairpin... this guy barely caught the car! I was bracing for a wreck. Of course I didn't get the shot when he was nearly using the side windows for forward vision! (Hey! I know that trick!)



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That is why you keep your side windows clean...

Did you put the flowers out on the turn for Bob yet ?

This is the outfit ----- and I did "all three" 60 minute drives in one longer version. So did a pickup at the hotel -- drove to Nice - turned around came back and went south of Monaco on a different road -- then back to Monaco. Was worth the time spent as it was a great way to see the way people live here - and the roads they drive on daily -- and of course all narrated by a guy that lives in the village of Eze.... which is just absolutely a spectacular village! Google it and you'll see what I mean.


If the page loads in French -- at the top there is a "button" to convert to English.


http://www.drivingexperience.livenup...tesexperience/

Amazing Greg, thanks for taking time to share with us!

David -- if you weren't such a Pozzi -- you'd bring Mary here!


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This has been really a nice trip and I'm enjoying it. And would recommend it to anyone. It's my FIRST TIME to Europe... so just taking it all in.