Originally Posted by Ross

Some of you may find this interesting.

I grew up in North-Central Ohio surrounded by farm land and Amish and Menonite communities (Horse and buggy). Exotic cars were Porsche, BMW and Mercedes. Our "Exotic" experiance was an ocassional Prosche or Mercedes. I grew up worshipping marques that most people never heard of.

After serving six years with the Navy I returned home to find that most people were aware of the true European exotic cars but no one had ever seen one. I was in my late twenties before I saw my first Ferrari and Lamborghini!

After years of hard work I finally managed to by one of my dream cars, a XKR Jaguar Coupe with 390 HP. Shy of a couple of Dodge Vipers I had the ultimate Exotic in my area!


Well, the XKR had an arguement with a guard rail in July of this year and lost. So I went looking for a replacement. The Lamborghini Jalpa was on my list but I wasn't going to buy a car that I couldn't get repaired out here in the middle of farm land.

Anyway, I started looking and found a Jalpa for sale at Evans Automotive (an hour south of me in our state capital of Columbus). Seems that since the seventies, Evans has been working on these pieces of art. The internet is an amazing thing! I went to look at the Jalpa (which was discussed at length on this web sight) only to find out it was sold. Long story short, I found one as you know.

I guess what I'm saying is that I'm patiently waiting for Evans to finish my Lamborghini Jalpa. But part of the experiance of waiting 34 years (since I first fell in love with the Countach) to get ahold of my Lamborghini is the experiance I'm having visiting Evans Automotive while they do the work! Every time I visit, this country boy gets to walk among greatness! The Lamborghinis, Ferraris and Jaguars are incredible! I'm waiting on Mike to finish his two year restore of a rare M12 Vector so he can start assembling my Jalpa V8! That's an experiance I'm willing to wait for. Is there anyone else here that can say they have touched a Lamborghini powered Vector? This country boy feels he's touched the sky and I'm not looking forward to it being over!