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Country of origin:Italy
Produced from:1948 - 1950
Numbers built:25 (all barchettas)
Introduced at:1948 Turin Motor Show
Designed by:Carlo Felice Bianchi Anderloni for Touring
Author:Wouter Melissen
Last updated:February 05, 2007
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 Truth Mirrors fiction.  
nikbj68
02-12-2007
Ever heard of a Canadian Rock band called RUSH? (Bear with me....)

Check out the lyrics to their 1981 song "Red Barchetta":

"My uncle has a country place, that no one knows about
He says it used to be a farm, before the motor law.
And on sundays I elude the �eyes� and hop the turbine freight
To far outside the wire, where my white-haired uncle waits.

Jump to the ground
As the turbo slows to cross the borderline.
Run like the wind,
Excitement shivers up and down my spine.
Down in his barn
My uncle preserved for me, an old machine ---
For fifty-odd years,
To keep it as new has been his dearest dream.

I strip away the old debris, that hides a shining car
A brilliant red Barchetta, from a better, vanished time.
I fire up the willing engine, responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel, I commit my weekly crime...

Wind in my hair ---
Shifting and drifting ---
Mechanical music ---
Adrenalin surge ---

Well-weathered leather
Hot metal and oil
The scented country air.
Sunlight on chrome
The blur of the landscape
Every nerve aware.

Suddenly, ahead of me, across the mountainside
A gleaming alloy air-car shoots towards me, two lanes wide.
I spin around with shrieking tires, to run the deadly race
Go screaming through the valley as another joins the chase.

Drive like the wind -
Straining the limits of machine and man.
Laughing out loud
With fear and hope, I�ve got a desperate plan.

At the one-lane bridge
I leave the giants stranded
At the riverside.
Race back to the farm
To dream with my uncle
At the fireside. "

  I guess I just like old Ferraris.  
NicFromLA
02-09-2007
This car only has 160hp, drives like a truck and looks like it belongs in a junk yard, but if I had a few million to drop on this car would I? You�d better believe it. What does that say about me? I guess I just like old Ferraris.

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