Family Fortunes Part 22

With the handsome Nardi wheelsited at the expected bus-like angle, and generously proportioned seats not leaving much in the ivay of a gap for your legs to pass under, you need to adopt the usual arms straight, knees splayed driving position. No great hardship, because you soon get used to it.Then the good bit. There’s always a twinge of pectation when you start a Ferrari and, unlike iiany of the current noise emissions-strangled :ditions, this one doesn’t disappoint. It’s a dogleg irst. Stiff, single-plate clutch in, ease into gear and rngine response is near instantaneous. Gingerly nove into second – the transmission oil isn’t yet arm and it’s a transaxie remember, so long linkages – and it baulks. Don’t be intimidated. More revs, more noise and the 330GTC takes off.cceleration for a car of this size, of this vintage, s as immediate as it is vocal. Period road tests “ecorded figures of 6.5 sees for 0-60mph and mid-[4s for the quarter mile which, for once, feel :ntirely believable – but it sounds even faster, rhird to fourth is super quick, and yet more accel-:ration. Into top and cruise, with only road noise md buffeting to the Α-pillars detracting. Once up : temperature, downshifts are precise and firm at positive with it, and the sound on blipping the :-JOtde is addictive.