Hey Rick, I don't if you remember my buddy Greg with the 440 Z06 or not, but his cousin used to live in New Orleans. His cousin John's best friend actually helps organize the event and invited us down.
So as the story goes we got up early that Saturday morning and headed to down town NOLA to see the cars leave in that police escort. I saw the Enzo parked in the garage and had never seen one. The owner, and also owner of ZR Auto in Calgary Canada, was walking out just as we got there so I figured I would film the car.
After this my buddy Greg with the 440 Z06 decides we should go down and watch the cars leave for No Problem Raceway. We all head down and before I know it Greg is talking to a random guy with a Challenge Stradale and then getting in the car...and then making me very jealous. I had never gotten a ride in a Ferrari before let alone really even seen one up close. I walked back to my other friends and wife and said "oh well I guess Greg gets to go for a ride." My friend John looks at me turns me around and pushes me and tells me "go find a ride you f'ing pansy, (this is his loving nature). So I walk off and decide that the red 430 with the twin super chargers looks like a good choice and then realize that the Yellow Enzo is also empty. I decided that if I was going to haggle for a ride just as they were about to leave I might as well go big or go home. So I did... and The rest is history.
Dude, I looked like a total goober but I didn't care. No matter what anyone said, or how much they made fun of my shirt I was like "did you ride in an Enzo this morning?..." I think I might have had a cargasm, and I do appologize if anything I said in those videos sounded stupid, I was trying very hard to think clearly, contain excitement, and generally form anything more than childish giggles and coos.
The three 430's with the light bars are actually the two Grand Marshal's of the event they led the procession all the way to no problem. Nothing like seeing a man that drives the piss out of his car, and they definitely did. Looks funny but man oh man did they get some use out of it. Everyone had CB radios in their cars...kinda funny to see Ferrari's with CB antenae stuck up under the seats.
