How I destroy my car to meet Coco Zinetti
The photos you are looking at are of Coco Zinetti's car, a driver from Lezama Buenos Aires, a Ford T with free preparation that raced on dirt tracks until the 90's. How did I get this information? By accident, real!
Coming back from Villa Gesell, a seaside town on the coast of Argentina on route 2, I remember that someone had told me about the existence of a charming character, who used to race on dirt tracks with his Ford T, but I can't remember who told me, nor where was the place in question... I ask my friend Kato if he remembered this story, and nothing... I ask Nico Kustom, another friend to whom I could have told the story of this character, and no.... minutes later, at the entrance to the town of Castelli, I was involved in car crash on the road with my 1992 Honda Accord and that force me to stay in the town of Castelli for several hours. At that moment, tired of waiting for the insurance tow truck, I called my friend Diego (who has a tow truck and has made several trips with my cars) to come to rescue me. On the way home, after literally 10km, he told me.... "Here is the workshop of the man who races with the Ford T..." and he points me to a gate at the entrance of Lezama... ! Diego had been the one who had told me that story! I couldn't believe it! The coincidences of life... a week later, I returned to Gesell to pick up my girlfriend and on the way there I could not avoid entering the mysterious workshop and meeting the great Coco Zinetti! Life is beautiful! With the good and the bad... because from the bad, you can always learn something good!
At the beginning Coco was a little bit skeptical, but when I told him “do you realize that I had to destroy a car to meet you...”...his eyes filled with tears and he immediately invited me to have some mates and to fill me with stories and anecdotes. Truly a charming character, with his racing stories, his trial and error inventions to win, everything...! The car is a 1927 Ford T with a 1930 Ford A engine with a lot of racing upgrades.
Unfortunately, today I live in Italy and I would have loved to go back to Coco's place to make a video with him and with the T, I hope to meet him again when I come back to Buenos Aires, this time, without destroying any vehicle...
