The main focus at the Woodward Dream Cruise is on classic American cars, especially those of the Forties through the early Seventies, but some people were showing off their modern exotics, like this Ferrari Enzo (or "Enzo Ferrari", for those of you nitpickers), which is quite possibly the rarest Ferrari that I've had the opportunity to photo in person thus far, with only 400 units made worldwide.
These two photos take one big notch off my personal list of unphotographed Ferraris, and, on a more geeky personal note, it was the only Ferrari that I own a 1/24th scale Maisto Assembly Line model of that I had yet to photograph until I spotted this one on Woodward Avenue in the Detroit suburb of Birmingham.
Incidentally, those aren't Ferraris parked on the other side of the street in front of the Land Rover dealership, those are De Tomaso Panteras.
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The main focus at the Woodward Dream Cruise is on classic American cars, especially those of the Forties through the early Seventies, but some people were showing off their modern exotics, like this Ferrari Enzo (or "Enzo Ferrari", for those of you nitpickers), which is quite possibly the rarest Ferrari that I've had the opportunity to photo in person thus far, with only 400 units made worldwide.
These two photos take one big notch off my personal list of unphotographed Ferraris, and, on a more geeky personal note, it was the only Ferrari that I own a 1/24th scale Maisto Assembly Line model of that I had yet to photograph until I spotted this one on Woodward Avenue in the Detroit suburb of Birmingham.
February 1st, 2008: This Enzo has now been immortalized in Crayola Crayon.
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...on Merivale Road in Nepean.
After a long, long Ferrari-spotting drought, I recently had the opportunity to attend two Ferrari events where I was able to take photos of Ferraris from nearly every angle, but there's still a certain magic to just spotting a Ferrari on the street at random, like with this shot.
I've spotted a couple of Ferraris in Nepean before, but this is the first time that I had a camera ready.
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I have a 1/24 scale Maisto "Assembly Line" series model and two Hot Wheels of the F430, which I've photographed many times, but this was the first time that I've ever seen a real F430 in person.
Unfortunately, there was no flat surface handy to use as an improvised tripod and my hands aren't that steady, so it's all blurry, like a Sasquatch photo.
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I don't know if I should have risked pissing off the F430 driver by using a flash, as that would have probably resulted in much better photos, since the shutter time is shorter with flash.
Hopefully, the driver is an Ottawa resident and not just a visitor, so that I can see this glorious beauty of a car on the road again soon.
Unlike Montreal, which has a Ferrari dealership, Ferrari sightings in Ottawa are rare. The only other two times I spotted Ferraris actually weren't downtown but in Nepean (a Testarossa on Meadowlands and a Mondial on Merivale), and neither of those times did I have a camera handy.
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