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Plenty of wonderful company, your pup will be very well tended to, ready and eager to play when you return. Secure, temperature controlled and run by serious car enthusiasts (Glen has a Lotus Elise for track fun). They will tailor their services to meet your most exacting requirements at the Petrol Lounge. Thanks to Glen for the tour. Here are some of the cars when I visited earlier this week. More pics later.
Above is a Roush Off Road Ford Pickup with supercharger giving 590HP and 590lb-ft.
Above is a Ferrari 360 and a Rolls Royce hiding playfully behind it.
Shelby Cobras and Vintage Porches ready to romp.
Porsche GT3 RS hanging out with his friends including the Ferrari F40 behind.
Only 1306 Ferrari 400s were produced, ending in 1985. This four-seater has the GM Turbo Hydramatic 400 (as did the Rolls Royce and Jaguar) connected to a 310hp 4.8 liter V12 that would reach 150 mph. It was expensive when new but affordable now. Asking price is $26,500. Very handsome car.
A gorgeous setting at the Long Center plaza overlooking Austin’s skyline, many exquisite collector cars were offered for sale. This event was created by the folks at Motoreum, Austin’s largest specialty car dealer on Hwy 620 (link at right). Here are a few, more to come:
1957 Lincoln Premiere Convertible
1926 Packard 326 Roadster Sport
1948 Pontiac Torpedo
2002 Mercedes CLK GTR (pre-bid estimate well over $1 million)
2005 Saleen Twin Turbo
1950 Nash Ambassador
1972 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona
John Lennon’s first car was a 1965 Ferrari 330 GT 2+2 and was the same color as this one. He must have enjoyed it because he drove it a lot — covering about 20k miles before selling it after two years. Imagine the high speed get-aways from the paparazzi.
Powered by a 300-hp version of the Colombo V-12, and designed by American Tom Tjaarda, it has four wheel independent suspension and disc brakes.
Glamorous Sandra West, a rich oil heiress, owned a 1964 Ferrari 330 GT and stipulated in her will that she “be buried next to my husband in a lace nightgown seated in my Ferrari with the seat comfortably slanted.” Her husband, Ike West, died under mysterious circumstances at the Las Vegas Flamingo Hotel in 1968, his fortune made from Texas oil and cattle. A sad and lonely Sandra died at 37 from an overdose. She and her blue Ferrari rest together under a simple stone at the San Antonio Masonic Cemetery. But, this is not the only story of a buried Ferrari. 
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