A whole bunch of questions for the cognicenti

Pete-
Thanks for the reply. After thinking about it for a while it occurred to me how dumb an idea it was to consider flat towing a Ferrari! If I DO combine the realization of 2 lifelong dreams (owning a Ferrari and being free to cruise the homeland top to bottom), a trailer it will be- in fact there are race-car transporters that show up now and then on eBay Motors that would work just fine.

I guess what I really need to examine critically is whether I should combine the rigors of living on the road for a few months in a motorhome with dealing with a Ferrari at the same time. I have a 4 bay garage at home, where I'll be for the summer months (nobody in the contiguous 48 states has better summer weather than we do, if we're lucky), which would be a better place for a Ferrari than dragging along behind, into unknown service and at risk a whole lot of ways. The Integra is better for that role.

Again, thanks for writing. And it's just marvelous to find a mature car forum, absent the teen dreamers that have pretty much ruined Road and Track's, and Car & Driver's forums.

I thought to include a small motorcycle in my "kit"- I have no wife any more (thanks to fortuitous divorce) so instead I have a 4-bay garage full of toys, 6 bikes among them including a couple of dual-purpose dirt-street Yamahas from ages ago and an ancient trialer (TY175). My days in the dirt at too much speed are pretty much in the past- 62 year old bones and a commensurate vivid imagination of wheelchairs and such make trials my sort of off-roading, except I've sort of burned out off-roading over the last 40-odd years. So the wilderness isn't really on the menu- my idea of "motorhoming the country" (to coin a phrase) leans more toward urban delights, and maybe a beach or two. I have a summer home in the Adirondacks for quiet lakeside retreating in a forest during our excellent summer; finding the 4 star restaurants, art museums, concert and theater venues in the cities of the winter-warm parts of this country is what I had in mind. Thus the Integra- nice snappy little car with a purposeful growl at 6000 rpm, sticks to corners well, has air and cruise and 40 mpg, and front drive for towing in one of those dollys that carry the front wheels (thus low hitch weight, but backing up problems as someone correctly pointed out here). Behind a reasonably sized class C with a big block GM engine, things should go ok. I've heard that the Ford V-10 that lately shows up in a lot of RV's is a true glutton for gas- can you confirm that rumor?

I used to really enjoy the car magazine forums. I posted maybe a few hundred on both R&T as Eddyvf750 (after the model of my Honda motorcycle) and C&D as V8Datsun (after my '73 240Z with a small block Chev in it). But lately they've degenerated into arguments over which is "better", an Enzo or the Mercedes supercar or a Lamborghini, each furiously defended by someone who's never even seen these cars except in the mags, much less driven one of them.

And yes, I've dreamed of owning a Ferrari all of my life since I first read Road & Track in the mid 1950's. I have a copy of their 1958 road test annual wherein they collected all the road tests they published that year. Such cars as Morgan 4/4, Porsche 550, Jaguar XK-SS (roadgoing D-type), and my favorite, a Ferrari 2.5 Liter TRC (Testa Rossa Competition) are there, and I've memorized what they had to say, having read the articles countless times since 1958. Just recently, after I had a detailed accounting of my retirement finances, much to my surprise I found I have enough resources to contemplate a 328 in good condition along with everything else I had planned, and there aren't words to describe the excitement and deep joy the idea of really, actually owning a Ferrari gives me. But I'm sure if anybody knows what I'm talking about, you fellows do. And I apologize for the length of this; I'm so excited I can't sleep and so here I am blathering away. It feels like the time just before I picked up my first date with a female that eveyone knew to be emancipated (to say it nicely).