US/UK-Diablo

Christina is the current gate keeper of tours and tour scheduling. I don't have her e-mail address here but you may be able to track it down through the Lamborghini web-site.

Ooops I meant Alan

Tomorrow we're going to attempt the concorso d’Eleganza at villa d’este in Como. I'll post pics when we get back. We'll also be going to Stelvio Pass on Wed.

And a t-shirt for Denise........................................

And 2 from today of Bellagio.....................................

And a gelato for Alan

And one more. Next time we'll try and get them all together.

Honestly if you don't get/do the factory floor tour don't go. The museum is now very small. Just about everything you see in the few pictures I posted is about all that's there. The museum is only open 4-1/2 hours a day. It opens at 10AM and closes for lunch. We had first tour (10AM) and it appeared that if your name was not on a list you didn't get in. Also keep in mind (no offense) things happen on Italian time. The museum was supposed to open at 10AM (tour enters through museum) it did not open until almost 10:20. Though everything comes across as very exclusive it can be a rather informal one on one adventure if you make contact with the right people. If you have any choice/pull connect with Christina (left below). Very nice person and very knowledgeable. There was some Dutch/German putz there who greeted me at the door and kept following me around asking if I was here with my husband!?!?!?!?!?!?!!

It was great meeting the northern Italy contingent of LP! A GREAT bunch of guys! OK - the LP700 As of last week they only had 2 assembly stations setup. Now all the stations are set up and all stations have a LP700 tub in place with groups being trained at each station. I also found out that they are not all going together as planned but I would suspect this is typical for something like this. There were only two finished cars there and no pictures allowed. There was one which was 90% finished in flat black that looked positively evil! There were an additional 9-10 in various stages of assembly. We were told that the current cars are exclusively for dealers showroom. None will be made for customers until ALL dealers get 1 showroom car. We were also told that at peak production they will be producing 2.6 cars a day 5 days a week. YES only 2.6 cars a day! They were not sure that with the current crew that they could do that and may have to hire a second shift which would delay them more because of training. I'll arrange some gelato photos for Alan. Got to run to Malpensa airport to pick up some friends. Will report more soon.....................

At Fabio Lamborghini's Museum and the monument erected in the square of Lamborghini's birth place. I've been here a week and will be here for another week and a half so more pics to come.................................

Factory pics. For those of you who have ordered Lp-700's I think you are going to have quite a wait!

View from the second floor balcony at the villa I rented on Lake Como and George's (Clooney) house directly across the lake from us.

Just thought I'd quick post up some of my current trip to Italy. I edit with some commentary later. Below: Me, Emilio, Fabio (Lamborghini), Alberto, Greg Emilio & Wife

That one was silver.

Remember their reference point are caves! So this IS a mansion

Ah it's that one. Do you know of any other orange 6.0's with a tan/black interior?

It looks hopeless. Any amount of money you dump into this will never make it right.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2001-Lambor...=item2eb4caac62 Hope it's not a re-post. I couldn't find this posted anywhere else.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.......................

Whoa! Easy tiger! You must be extra cranky because your sick. Sometimes, just sometimes, some peoples glass is half full.

Hmmmmmmmmmm! All this time in Europe and only 3 pictures. One of a castle not in Italy, A fake ghost picture, and a concentration camp, talk of Ferrari, pissing and moaning about all the ugly woman and the only picture of a car was posted by someone not in Italy. I leave for Northern Italy Next month for 3 weeks. I’ve rented a villa on Lake Como to use as my base. Will go to Stelvio Pass, St. Moritz, Lambo factory tour, visit with Albert, Emilo (and my former Roadster ) and stuff..................................... Not a challenge Alan but if I get my new laptop sorted out before I leave I think I could do better. Sick on vacations sucks - do get better!

The other day (parked outside the post office) someone asked me how does it drive and "like it looks" just popped out my mouth.

Art - porn Potato - pototo Tomato - tomoto

If it's NJ forget it. They have the whole dam system locked down. There's not a single g_dam loop hole in the whole system.

I love the show but I’m really sick of him. I have no patience for someone who has everything in the world - pissing and moaning about how awful he’s treated and how he’s underpaid.