Miata Mailing List: October 1997, Message #14
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From: 	Bob Krueger <voodoo@miata.net>

Subject: Re: Voodoo Knob-????

Date: 	Wed, 1 Oct 1997 01:11:29 +0000



>Modena ? Isn't that the Ferrari place or was it Marenello ? Or just close by.

>At least a lot of Ferraris are equiped with Momos.



Maranello is a suburb of Modena. The original Ferrari site, which was

bombed during WWII, including Enzo's office, was in Modena. The current

Ferrari factory is in Maranello.



You may have noticed that all current production Ferraris come equipped

with "Voodoo" knobs. F355s, 456 GTs, and 550 Maranellos all use metal

spheres for shift knobs. It's OK, though; I won't sue them, since the

Voodoo Knob is unabashedly based on the alloy shift knobs used in their

sports racers of the '50s and '60s like TDFs, SWBs, and GTOs.



You may or may not have also noticed that none of the folks who paid

anywhere from $135,000 to $225,000 for those cars seem to bitch and moan

much about excessive heat transfer to their hands [g].



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San Diego Miata Club

Age & Treachery Racing, Ltd.

http://mmdshare.ucsd.edu/voodoo.html

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